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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.
1942 My Favorite Blonde. Karen Bentley, an English secret agent, links up with Larry Haines and his star penguin Percy in an attempt to outwit German spies.
My Favorite Blonde (1942) is a breezy Bob Hope comedy which satirizes Hitchcock-type thrillers of its era. Hope plays a burlesque player with a penguin act who gets embroiled with Nazi agents and beautiful blonde spy Madeleine Carroll, who previously appeared in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935).
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Vaudevillian Larry Haines (Bob Hope) sets out for California seeking fame and fortune, but instead he finds himself entangled in a world of intrigue and...
Film. My Favorite Blonde. by Jonathan Rosenbaum October 26, 1985. By reputation, one of the better Bob Hope vehicles (1942). Madeleine Carroll plays a spy who gets Hope and his trained penguin to...
My Favorite Blonde is a comedic take on the Hitchcockian “wrong man” suspense plot, co-starring Madeleine Carroll (the heroine of Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps). Here Carroll plays Karen Bentley, a British spy who is tasked with delivering secret flight plans, hidden inside a scorpion-shaped brooch, to a British agent in Chicago.
Karen Bentley, an English secret agent, links up with Larry Haines and his star penguin Percy in an attempt to outwit German spies. Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train bound for Los Angeles. Is Hollywood waiting for him with open arms?
