Watch On Bruised Onion Studio YouTube Channel
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
American romantic comedy film and film noir parody.
Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, tells reporters how he got there. The story is told in flashback from Death Row in San Quentin State Prison, as Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) relates to a group of reporters the events that lead to his murder conviction.
The film contains a number of in-jokes. Bob Hope’s character is just saying that he wants to be a private detective like Alan Ladd – when Ladd appears, playing a private detective. Dorothy Lamour’s character looks longingly after Bing Crosby for a moment (in their “Road” movies with Bob Hope, Crosby nearly always got the girl) before Hope wins back her attention.
There is also a comic reference to legendary music conductor Arturo Toscanini, then considered the greatest conductor in the world, and who at that time was conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. (Bob Hope had a radio program on NBC and was soon to make his TV debut on NBC as well.)
Sequences were filmed in San Francisco and Pebble Beach, California.
My Favorite Brunette is included among the American Film Institute’s list of 500 movies nominated for the Top 100 Funniest American Movies.
| Directed by | Elliott Nugent |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Danny Dare |
| Screenplay by |
|
| Starring |
|
| Music by | Robert Emmett Dolan |
| Cinematography | Lionel Lindon |
| Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland |
|
Production
company |
Hope Enteriprises
|
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
|
Release date
|
|
|
Running time
|
87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.1 million (US rentals) |
