My Favorite Brunette
About My Favorite Brunette
Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters his story from death row at San Quentin. While covering the private eye's office next door, he is hired by a baroness to find a missing baron. The trail runs through a gloomy house and a private sanatorium, with Kismet and a slow, large man named Willie in the way. Alan Ladd appears as the detective Ronnie is impersonating, and Bing Crosby as the executioner. Ronnie gets off the row.
Cast & crew
More about My Favorite Brunette
Elliott Nugent directed. Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose wrote it. Danny Dare produced for Hope Enterprises, and Paramount released it on 4 April 1947. Sequences were shot in San Francisco and at Pebble Beach. Lionel Lindon photographed it.
Themes
Making
Hope Enterprises made it and Paramount distributed it. Robert Emmett Dolan wrote the score. Ellsworth Hoagland edited.
Reviews
Bosley Crowther, in The New York Times, called it a funny picture built on Hope, a woman, and a ridiculous plot. A St. Petersburg Times notice called Hope's performance first-rate.
Look
Lionel Lindon shot the San Francisco and Pebble Beach scenes and the sanatorium interiors.
Music
Robert Emmett Dolan composed the score.
Preservation
A print is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- Bob Hope plays Ronnie Jackson. Dorothy Lamour is the baroness. Peter Lorre is Kismet.
- Lon Chaney Jr. plays Willie, modeled on Lennie in Of Mice and Men.
- Alan Ladd's cameo is Sam McCloud. Bing Crosby plays the executioner, Harry.
- U.S. rentals were reported at $3.1 million.
- The picture spoofs detective films and the look of film noir.
Scenes
- Ronnie tells the reporters his story from a San Quentin cell.
- The baroness hires him in the office that is not his.
- Crosby shows up as the man who is supposed to carry out the sentence.
Also available
- Internet Archive (my_favorite_brunette)
