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...Hope and Dorothy Lamour by this time have either established themselves as one of Hollywood's top comedy teams, either with or without the extra added attraction of a horse-fancier known as Harry Lillis Crosby. The last name doesn't appear on the roll of the "My Favorite Brunette" east, but the other two-thirds of the trio manage to hold up their end to good enough advantage. From the title you might well assume before the film even begins that it's going to be something on the same order as an opus called "My Favorite Blonde" that...
Lost, somewhere in Hollywood: Dorothy Lamour's $1,100 cigaret case. Identifying marks: 30 diamonds, 50 rubies...
...Dorothy Lamour, like Hedy Lamarr a week earlier (TIME, April 29), got debaubelized. While she was visiting Baltimore, an auto burglar got away with some $26,000 worth of her jewelry, a $1,500 fur coat, 36 pairs of stockings. Unmolested: 15 other pieces of luggage...
...whipped up a drawn-out melange of corny gags and predicaments. No, holds are barred; all the old and faithful chestnuts are dragged out again for further milking. Picture, if you will, Hope dissolving a snowbank with the heat he generates in a love scene, or the ubiquitous Lamour displaying the inevitable sarong amidst the Alaskan snows. And a talking bear complaining that the writers haven't given him any good lines. And so forth...
Road to Utopia (Paramount) is the fourth and farthest north in the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby-Dorothy Lamour road shows.* It also had the Paramount gagmen scraping the barrel bottom...