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My Favorite Brunette (1947)

Name: My Favorite Brunette
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1947
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Cast: Bing Crosby, Peter Lorre, Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour

194787 minComedyStrong rights evidence

My Favorite Brunette (1947) is an 87-minute comedy film that airs free on Starlite TV's Laugh Track (CH 3) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Elliott Nugent.

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About My Favorite Brunette (1947)

My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 American romantic comedy film and film noir parody, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Edmund Beloin and Jack Rose, the film is about a baby photographer on death row in San Quentin State Prison who tells reporters his history.

The story is told in flashback from Death Row as Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) relates to a group of reporters the events that led to his murder conviction. In San Francisco, Ronnie works as a child photographer who dreams of being a private detective like his office neighbor Sam McCloud (Alan Ladd). One day, he is mistaken for McCloud by mysterious woman in distress, Carlotta Montay (Dorothy Lamour), who claims that her wheelchair-using husband was kidnapped. Carlotta gives Ronnie her address, a map, and a $5,000 ring as payment, telling him that no one must know he's a detective.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article My Favorite Brunette (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Elliott Nugent
Cast includes: Bing Crosby, Peter Lorre, Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, Frank Puglia, Lon Chaney Jr., Alan Ladd
Country: United States

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Airs on

Laugh Track - CH 3, Comedy TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' - reason: Copyright not renewed (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Copyright not renewed.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Copyright not renewed.
Source: Internet Archive

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