By Signal Staff
Bob Hope comes to Buzz Classic Movies this week with a Saturday night showing of the 1947 romantic comedy and film noir parody, “My Favorite Brunette.”
“It’s full of gags and doesn’t try to sabotage anything — except gloom,” writes Jack Moffitt of Esquire Magazine, per Rotten Tomatoes. “In fact, it’s just the sort of ‘escapist’ entertainment that the Communists find ‘subversive.’”
The movie also features Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney Jr.
The 1947 film has earned a 75% “fresh” rating from the critics based on 11 reviews, and a 70% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes’ “Popcornmeter” based on more than 1,000 ratings.
“Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective,” says the Rotten Tomatoes summary of the movie. “When a lovely baroness (Dorothy Lamour) actually mistakes him for one and asks him to help locate her missing husband, Baron Montay (Frank Puglia), 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.”
The classic streams at 8 p.m. Saturday on The Signal’s streaming channel, The Buzz, available at buzzscv.com as well as streaming platforms including Roku and Apple TV.
