"My Favorite Brunette" 1947 American romantic comedy. starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.

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. While taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, he is asked by an irresistible baroness to find a missing baron, which initiates a series of confusing but sinister events in a gloomy mansion and a private sanatorium. Spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style, the film features Lon Chaney Jr. playing Willie, a character based on his Of Mice and Men role Lennie; Peter Lorre as Kismet, a comic take on his many film noir roles; and cameo appearances by film noir regular Alan Ladd and Hope partner Bing Crosby. Sequences were filmed in San Francisco and Pebble Beach, California.

Cast
Bob Hope as Ronnie Jackson
Dorothy Lamour as Baroness Carlotta Montay
Peter Lorre as Kismet
Lon Chaney Jr. as Willie
John Hoyt as Dr. Lundau
Charles Dingle as Major Simon Montague
Reginald Denny as James Collins
Frank Puglia as Baron Montay
Ann Doran as Miss Rogers[4]
Willard Robertson as Prison Warden
Jack La Rue as Tony
Charles Arnt as Crawford
Alan Ladd as Sam McCloud (cameo appearance)
Bing Crosby as Would-be Executioner Harry (cameo appearance)