| My Favorite Brunette | |
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| Directed by | Elliott Nugent |
| Screenplay by | |
| Produced by | Danny Dare |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Lionel Lindon |
| Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland |
| Music by | Robert Emmett Dolan |
Production company | Hope Enteriprises |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.1 million (US rentals)[1] |
My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 American romantic comedy film and film noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.[2] Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about a baby photographer on death row in San Quentin State Prison who tells reporters his history. While taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, he is asked by an irresistible baroness to find a missing baron, which initiates a series of confusing but sinister events in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium. Spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style, the film features Lon Chaney Jr. playing Willie, a character based on his Of Mice and Men role Lennie; Peter Lorre as Kismet, a comic take on his many film noir roles; and cameo appearances by film noir regular Alan Ladd and Hope partner Bing Crosby. Sequences were filmed in San Francisco and Pebble Beach, California.[3]
- ^ "Top Grossers of 1947", Variety, 7 January 1948 p 63
- ^ "My Favorite Brunette". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
- ^ "Filming locations for My Favorite Brunette". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved September 3, 2012.