My Favorite Blonde Overview:

My Favorite Blonde (1942) was a Comedy - Black-and-white Film directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by Paul Jones.

SYNOPSIS

A wartime spy comedy with Carroll enlisting vaudevillian Hope and his trained penguin in a coast-to-coast espionage mission that gets progressively more absurd. Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), the progenitor of nearly all spy chase films, which also starred Carroll, appears to have served as the inspiration for this popular romp. Crosby makes a very brief appearance in a memorable scene.

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My Favorite Blonde (1942)

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Larry Haines: "Is that your real hair or did you scalp an angel?"


[Plane engine sputtering]
Larry Haines: What's that?
Karen Bentley: It isn't moving properly. There's not enough gas to clean a doily.
Larry Haines: Oh, that's fine. That's great! That means we're going to be stuck up here where everybody can see us.
[Screaming as plane dives]


Larry Haines: [Impersonating a famed pediatrician before a crowd of mothers]
Mother Who Has a Girl of Nine: Dr. Higby, I have a girl of nine who won't listen to what's right. She always does what's wrong. What should I do?
Larry Haines: Wait ten years, and if there's no improvement... send me her number.


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Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): William Irving (Waiter), Mike Lally (Chicago Taxi Driver). 'Frank Marlowe' (Chicago Taxi Driver) and William Lally (Telegraph Operator).
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by MCA ever since.
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onOctober 19, 1942 with Bob Hope reprising his film role.
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