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

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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.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

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My Favorite Blonde (1942)

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My Favorite Blonde Quotes:

Larry Haines: I gotta send a wire to Nat Burton. I gotta tell him to get us a lawyer to straighten out this murder business.
Karen Bentley: Who's Nat Burton?
Larry Haines: He's my agent.
Karen Bentley: Do you think he'll help?
Larry Haines: He'd better. If I get the electric chair, he gets 10% of the current.
[staging a furious argument]
Larry Haines: So, I'm a muckfritchetous snitdrivel, am I?
Karen Bentley: Yes, and you're also a scridgepodge, that's what you are!
Larry Haines: Lady, if I'm not out of that door in 2 seconds flat, my name's not Larry Haines!
[Larry opens the door, sees a knife fly into the wood, and closes the door]
Larry Haines: [holding his hand out to Karen] Meet John Doe!
Larry Haines: Let's get out of here before my knees beat themselves to death.
Larry Haines: Say, you know honey: You and me could make music together. Right now I feel like the philharmonic.
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My Favorite Blonde Facts
"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie onOctober 19, 1942 with Bob Hope reprising his film role.
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.
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