My Favorite Brunette (1947) | Directed by Elliott Nugent - Full Movie

Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, tells reporters how he got there.Show more

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. 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.

Directed by: Elliott Nugent
Screenplay by: Edmund Beloin, Jack Rose
Produced by: Danny Dare
Starring: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Cinematography: Lionel Lindon
Edited by: Ellsworth Hoagland
Music by: Robert Emmett Dolan
Production company: Hope Enteriprises
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release date: April 4, 1947
Running time: 87 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Box office: $3.1 million (US rentals)