My Favorite Brunette
“He's a hilarious hawkshaw... with a case on Dottie!”
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective. When a lovely baroness actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay, Ronnie finds himself agreeing. Several days later he is on death row whiling away the hours until his execution by recounting to a group of reporters the bizarre tale of how he ended up there.
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Cast
45 people
Bob Hope
Ronnie Jackson
Known for
The Ghost Breakers
The Cat and the Canary
Betty Hutton
Herself (uncredited/archive footage)
Known for
The Greatest Show on Earth
Annie Get Your Gun
Dorothy Lamour
Baroness Carlotta Montay
Known for
Creepshow 2
The Greatest Show on Earth
Peter Lorre
Kismet
Known for
M
Casablanca
Lon Chaney Jr.
Willie
Known for
The Wolf Man
Spider Baby
John Hoyt
Dr. Lundau
Known for
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Attack of the Puppet People
Charles Dingle
Major Simon Montague
Known for
The Little Foxes
The Talk of the Town
Reginald Denny
James Collins
Known for
Rebecca
Batman
Frank Puglia
Baron Montay
Known for
20 Million Miles to Earth
Jungle Book
Ann Doran
Miss Rogers
Known for
Rebel Without a Cause
It! The Terror from Beyond Space
Willard Robertson
Prison Warden
Known for
Remember the Night
The Ox-Bow Incident
Jack La Rue
Tony
Known for
A Farewell to Arms
Captains Courageous
Elliott Nugent Director · Jack Rose Screenplay Edmund Beloin Screenplay
Worldwide gross $3.1M · United States release March 19, 1947 · Produced in United States
Box office
Worldwide gross
$3,100,000
Production
Hope Enterprises
Production
Paramount Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 19, 1947
Limited theatrical · Los Angeles, California
United States
April 4, 1947 · Theatrical
Germany
January 1, 2004 · Theatrical
Netherlands
January 1, 2004 · Physical · DVD
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