My Favorite Blonde / Star Spangled Rhythm Double Feature
by George Marshall, Sidney Lanfield
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Actor: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Franchot Tone, Fred MacMurray, Madeleine CarrollDirector: George Marshall, Sidney Lanfield
Brand: Universal
Writer: Arthur A. Ross
Writer: Barney Dean
Writer: Don Hartman
Writer: Frank Butler
Writer: Fred Saidy
Writer: George S. Kaufman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 178 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Movie Reviews of My Favorite Blonde / Star Spangled Rhythm Double Feature
Movie Review: Great double feature
Summary: 4 Stars
You can't go far wrong with the early Bob Hope films. This double feature is misleading though because only one is a Hope vehicle.
"My Favourite Blonde" is a spy comedy, a take off of "The Thirty Nine Steps", a famous book by John Buchan and British film starring the gorgeous Madelaine Carroll and Robert Donat. The gags come thick and fast and Hope is perfectly cast as a second rate vaudevillian with a performing penguin. He inadvertantly gets mixed up with British agent Carroll who is trying to deliver secret microfilm to her boss. Their adventures take them from New York to Los Angeles, providing the script writers with endless opportunities for mayhem. It is a very entertaining film and Carroll surprises with her comedy technique.
"Star Spangled Rhythm" was Paramount's entry into the all star "putting on a show" films which every studio produced during the war. It is one of the best. Betty Hutton stars as a telephonist at the studio and she is very funny. She has 2 standout scenes - when she greets boyfriend Eddie Bracken and a superb routine with 2 acrobats in which she is trying to get over the walls of the studio lot. The show itself has the usual mixture of acts - good such as Dorothy Lamour, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake sending up their images (Lake is inept) and Ray Milland, Lynne Overman, Franchot Tone and Fred MacMurray (his dead pan timing is impeccable) demonstrating if men played cards like women; very poor such as an inexplicable and embarrassing turn by the inert Alan Ladd and Susan Hayward overacting as usual in a skit about the wartime rubber shortage. There are also a couple of great songs - "That Old Black Magic" and "Hit the Road to Dreamland" for example. Ironically, for me the worst bit is the climax with Bing Crosby performing a patriotic song and showing absolutely zero involvement as usual.
The prints of the films are excellent but the extras only include the trailers of the films and some liner notes about the productions and the casts. One irritating constraint is that once you have selected a film, you can not return to the top menu to select the other film.
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 04/15/2003 Run time: 178 minutes Rating: NrComedy DVD Video
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