[2] 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.

[3] 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.

Ronnie's a San Francisco baby photographer who dreams about being a real private detective like his office neighbor Sam McCloud (Alan Ladd).

One day, he is mistaken for a detective by mysterious lady in distress Carlotta Montay (Dorothy Lamour), who claims that her wheelchair-using husband was kidnapped at the pier as they arrived from overseas.

Carlotta gives Ronnie her address, a coded map, and a $5,000 ring as payment, telling him that no one must know he's a detective.

Back at his office, Ronnie develops the keyhole photo showing the "Uncle" walking about.

(This scene would be repeated years later by Alfred Hitchcock in his film "North By Northwest" with Cary Grant.)

Ronnie returns to the mansion and finds the clue, which is a card for the Seacliffe Lodge in Carmel.

Montague explains that Carlotta's uncle had turned down his offer to buy mineral rights.

He says that Carlotta's uncle had scheduled an important meeting with the government at the Pilgrim Hotel in Washington.

Montague tells the police that Ronnie is wanted for the Collins murder in San Francisco.

Ronnie is on death row, cursing Carlotta for disappearing and not testifying at his murder trial.

Bosley Crowther of The New York Times liked the film, saying: "Paramount knows a good thing when it sees one, especially when it earns a pile of bucks.

That's why the Paramount's new picture, the aforementioned 'My Favorite Brunette,' which candidly observes these criteria, is a commendably funny film.

[7] My Favorite Brunette has been widely available on home video with most copies varying in picture and sound quality.

There have been authorized video releases of the film, under license from the Bob Hope estate and distributor FremantleMedia North America, using the original negatives stored at Sony.

The film was released by BCI Eclipse Company in 2007 in an HD DVD double feature with Son of Paleface, and Shout!