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My Favorite Blonde
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by Paramount Pictures
Sales Rank: 31022
Price: $14.98
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Another fine Bob Hope movie, Bob Hope must have been at the age of 38 or 39 at the time. He's funny and quick with the lines. Fine delivery. Bob Hope says in this film as he flattens out his hand, "I got a long life". He sure does and we are glad he has given us 65 years of laughter. Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. Bob Hope!
Viewer Reviews
Hope fans will have fun watching watching Bob and beautiful Madeleine Carroll navigate through this delightful romp about secret flight plans hidden in a gold scorpion pin. Hope gets off some good one-liners and there is even an amusing cameo from Bing. A better than usual screenplay by Don Hartman and Frank Butler, based on a story by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, give Bob and gorgeous Madeleine plenty to do yet still enough time to fall in love.
Madeleine is Karen Bentley, a British agent trying to deliver top secret flight plans that German agents want to get their hands on at any cost. The plans are in code in a gold scorpion pin. When her partner is killed by enemy agents aboard the S.S. Aleria, the chase is on. Another British agent is taken down, this one a female, murdered because they thought she was Karen. She ducks into a variety show where Larry Haines (Bob Hope) and his penguin, Percy, are doing their last show before heading to Hollywood.
Larry is just thanking his lucky stars when Karen sort of falls into his lap and wants to travel with him. But she ditches him after planting the scorpion on him before boarding the train. He has a close encounter on the train with the group of enemy spies led by Mme. Stephanie Runick (Gale Sondergaard), but manages to escape with no idea what is going on.
Karen meets up with Larry in Albany, and though Larry isn't crazy about her hot and cold personality, she's a blonde and he can't say no. All she will tell him at first is that countless thousands will be affected and the map of the world could change if she doesn't succeed. Larry's a sucker for a pretty face, and keeps putting himself in greater and greater danger, until the enemy spies no longer believe he's a pawn, but the real thing.
There are some fun moments as Larry and his pajama wearing penguin, Percy, get caught up in the danger. When a third British agent Karen was scheduled to give the plans to is murdered, she finally comes clean with Larry and lets him in on what's going on. From there on it's one escape after another. There is one very funny moment when Larry and Karen are trashing a hotel room so the cops will come and arrest them, and Larry turns on the radio, then shuts it off quickly when that Bob Hope guy comes on!
When Larry becomes wanted for murder, they steal a bus at a picnic for the union, borrow a plane, hop a freight, and steal a car. Along the way, of course, they begin to fall for each other. Larry will end up in a coffin at a funeral home before the plans can be delivered. He has planted the scorpion on Karen this time, but the enemy agents, and the British, think he's swallowed them and want to cut him open!
Madeleine Carroll had a reserved type of glamour and was good here with Hope. Some did not find her as appealing as Lamour or Lamarr, who starred in the other two films of this Hope trilogy, "My Favorite Brunette" and "My Favorite Spy," but she was simply different, and this is a lot of fun for Hope fans.
"My Favorite Blonde" is a very good film to pop in on the weekend and enjoy. Hope gets to poke fun at himself, take a swipe at Crosby, deliver some zingers, and he even gets the girl in this one. What's not to like about that?
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