My Favorite Blonde
My Favorite Blonde is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Sidney Lanfield and starring Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll. Based on a story by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film is about a vaudeville performer who gets mixed up with British and German secret agents in the days just before the United States' entry into World War II. The film features an uncredited cameo appearance by Bing Crosby.
Plot
When a British secret agent is murdered in the line of duty, agent Karen Bentley inherits the mission from her partner. The mission is to deliver a flight plan for a hundred American bomber planes to a British agent in Chicago. The plans are hidden in a small medallion of a scorpion that Karen wears.
Cast
- Alan Ladd
- Betty Hutton
- Bing Crosby
- Bob Hope
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Cecil Kellaway
- Dick Powell
- Dooley Wilson
- Dorothy Lamour
- Eddie Bracken
- Eva Gabor
- Franchot Tone
- Fred MacMurray
- Gale Sondergaard
- George Zucco
- James Burke
- Jerry Colonna
- Lynne Overman
- Macdonald Carey
- Madeleine Carroll
- Mary Martin
- Paulette Goddard
- Preston Sturges
- Ray Milland
- Sterling Holloway
- Susan Hayward
- Veronica Lake
- Victor Moore
- Victor Varconi
- Walter Abel
- Walter Kingsford
- William Bendix
More details
| author | Frank Butler Melvin Frank Norman Panama |
|---|---|
| director | Frank Butler Paul Jones Sidney Lanfield |
| editor | William Shea |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | air base arrest build dead body disturb enemy agent freight train funeral parlor german agent hide jacket kill los angeles make up middle of nowhere morning after murder new york city out of fuel patrol car police chase secret agent sightsee stealing food true identity |
| musicBy | David Buttolph |
| producer | Paul Jones |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | chase spy comedy transport |