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My Favorite Brunette
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My Favorite Brunette (1947) -- Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office...
My Favorite Brunette (1947) -- Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office...

Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   1,122 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Edmund Beloin (original screenplay) and
Jack Rose (original screenplay)
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Release Date:
4 April 1947 (USA) more
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Tagline:
He's a hilarious hawkshaw... with a case on Dottie!
Plot:
Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office... more | add synopsis
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Have a Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. Bob Hope! more (40 total)

Cast

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Bob Hope ... Ronnie Jackson

Dorothy Lamour ... Carlotta Montay

Peter Lorre ... Kismet

Lon Chaney Jr. ... Willie (as Lon Chaney)
John Hoyt ... Dr. Lundau
Charles Dingle ... Major Simon Montague
Reginald Denny ... James Collins
Frank Puglia ... Baron Montay
Ann Doran ... Miss Rogers
Willard Robertson ... Prison Warden
Jack La Rue ... Tony
Charles Arnt ... Crawford
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Additional Details

Runtime:
87 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (certificate #11981) | UK:PG | UK:A (original rating) (passed with cuts) | Australia:G (original rating) | Australia:PG (DVD rating) | Finland:K-16

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
On a Capitol Records 78, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour waxed two Jay Livingston-Ray Evans tunes: the romantic "Beside You," a Lamour solo in the film, and a comic-banter ditty named after the movie, although this number was not performed in the picture. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: A shot of the plane landing is flipped: the writing on the tail is backwards. more
Quotes:
Carlotta Montay: I'm at my wit's end!
Ronnie Jackson: I passed there an hour ago.
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Movie Connections:
References The Lost Weekend (1945) more
Soundtrack:
BESIDE YOU more

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10 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Have a Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. Bob Hope!, 4 March 2003
9/10
Author: james362001 from Lancaster, CA

Bob Hope is back! This time with Dorothy Lamour. This is the ninth film they both have been in and they were in five more together after this one, Bob Hope is the age of 43 or 44 in this film. Bob Hope plays a baby photographer who has always wanted to be a private eye...a detective. Next to his office is the McCloud Detective Agency. He begs for Sam McCloud (Alan Ladd in a cameo appearance) to give him a chance. But nothin' doin'. While McCloud trusts Bob to answer the phone while he steps outside to work on a case, who should walk in but Dorothy Lamour. The distraught woman needs help and thinks Bob is McCloud the detective. Well, what is Bob to do? Especially as lovely as Dorothy Lamour is. So here is Bob's chance to play detective. Here is where the fun begins. Bing Crosby also has a cameo appearance.

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