{"id":18312,"date":"2011-06-27T12:29:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=18312"},"modified":"2021-02-01T01:37:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T08:37:05","slug":"my-favorite-blonde-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=18312","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Blonde (1942)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Do you know what it feels like, to be followed and hounded and watched every second?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/My-Favorite-Blonde-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/My-Favorite-Blonde-Poster-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/My-Favorite-Blonde-Poster-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/My-Favorite-Blonde-Poster-96x128.jpg 96w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/My-Favorite-Blonde-Poster.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA vaudeville performer (Bob Hope) goes on the lam with a British secret agent (Madeleine Carroll) after being framed for murder by a Nazi spy (Gale Sondergaard).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bob Hope Films<\/li>\n<li>Fugitives<\/li>\n<li>Madeleine Carroll Films<\/li>\n<li>Satires and Spoofs<\/li>\n<li>Spies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThe first of three similarly-titled satires which paired Bob Hope with a classic Hollywood beauty (followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=17776\"><em>My Favorite Brunette<\/em><\/a> with Dorothy Lamour in 1947, and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=18308\"><em>My Favorite Spy<\/em><\/a> with Hedy Lamarr in 1951), this comedic thriller &#8212; co-written by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama &#8212; allowed Madeleine Carroll the opportunity to spoof her most famous film, Hitchcock&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=7808\"><em>The 39 Steps<\/em> (1935)<\/a>. While it&#8217;s full of plenty of humorously throw-away one-liners and gags, however, the film as a whole isn&#8217;t as consistently enjoyable as <em>My Favorite Brunette<\/em> (the best of the &#8220;series&#8221;). It&#8217;s interesting to know that Hope (in real life) was head-over-heels in lust with Carroll, who was going steady with Sterling Hayden at the time and eventually broke Hope&#8217;s heart by marrying Hayden on the sly; in the film, Carroll&#8217;s &#8220;push-me-pull-you&#8221; romantic teasing with Hope seems like an especially appropriate fictional approximation of these tensions. Watch for a cute shot showing Hope&#8217;s trained penguin, Percy, bowing to the audience in roller skates. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A high-energy satire of Hitchcockian thrillers<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/My-Favorite-Blonde-Satire.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/My-Favorite-Blonde-Satire.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"464\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/My-Favorite-Blonde-Satire.png 608w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/My-Favorite-Blonde-Satire-128x97.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/My-Favorite-Blonde-Satire-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s worth a look. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0035100\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1942\/04\/02\/archives\/review-1-no-title.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitallyobsessed.com\/displaylegacy.php?ID=3202\">Digitally Obsessed Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/84317\/my-favorite-blonde#articles-reviews?articleId=79903\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/movies\/my-favorite-blonde\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do you know what it feels like, to be followed and hounded and watched every second?&#8221; Synopsis: A vaudeville performer (Bob Hope) goes on the lam with a British secret agent (Madeleine Carroll) after being framed for murder by a Nazi spy (Gale Sondergaard). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Bob Hope Films Fugitives Madeleine Carroll Films Satires and Spoofs Spies Review: The first of three similarly-titled satires which paired Bob Hope with a classic Hollywood beauty (followed by My Favorite&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=18312\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67643,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18312\/revisions\/67643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}