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My Favorite Blonde is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Frank Butler released in USA on 2 april 1942 with Bob Hope
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
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Add to a movie listMy 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 America's entry into World War II. The film features an uncredited cameo appearance by Bing Crosby.
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When a British secret agent is murdered in the line of duty, agent Karen Bentley inherits the mission from her partner. The mission is to deliver a flight plan for a hundred American bomber planes to a British agent in Chicago. The plans are hidden in a small medallion of a scorpion that Karen wears.Actors
Bob Hope
(Larry Haines)
Madeleine Carroll
(Karen Bentley)
Gale Sondergaard
(Madame Stephanie Runick)
George Zucco
(Dr. Hugo Streger)
Macdonald Carey
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