Knat Scatt Private Eye is a two-act, 1930s-style film noir musical featuring an American actor known for playing Michael Scott on the American version of what?
The Office
Title: My Favorite Brunette
Passage: 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.
Title: Eddie Muller
Passage: Eddie Muller is an American writer based in San Francisco and is a second-generation San Franciscan per his website.  He is known for writing books about movies, particularly film noir.  Founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation, and co-programmer of the San Francisco Noir City film festival, Muller is considered a noir expert and is called on to write and talk about the film genre, notably on wry commentary tracks for Fox's film noir series of DVDs.
Title: List of films by the Hollywood Ten
Passage: This is a list of films by the Hollywood Ten, who were cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted after refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party USA.  The Hollywood films of this period that were scrutinized by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) included spy and private eye thrillers, political melodrama and film noir.
Title: Private Eye (film)
Passage: Private Eye (; lit.  "Shadow Murder") is a 2009 South Korean period film noir directed by Park Dae-min.
Title: Chauncey Leopardi
Passage: Chauncey Leopardi (born 1982) is an American former actor known for playing Michael "Squints" Palledorous in the 1993 movie "The Sandlot".  He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA along with his wife and two daughters Paige and Shia.  His years active were 1990 - 2013.
Title: Knat Scatt Private Eye
Passage: Knat Scatt Private Eye is a two-act, 1930s-style film noir musical, which played for an extended run at The Theater Building in Chicago in 1986, featuring a young Steve Carell.  It was based on a one-act musical with the same title which was originally produced earlier that year by Players Workshop for The Children's Theater of The Second City, and performed on The Second City stage in Chicago.  Both versions of "Knat Scatt Private Eye" were written and directed by Eric Forsberg with music and lyrics by Charlie Silliman.
Title: Steve Carell
Passage: Steven John Carell ( ; born August 16, 1962) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, and writer.  Carell is best known for playing Michael Scott on the American version of "The Office" (2005–2011), on which he also worked as an occasional writer, producer, and director.
Title: Bob Truluck
Passage: Bob Truluck (born July 28, 1949) is an American crime and noir novelist.  In 1999, Truluck won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America Award for Best First Private Eye Novel.  In 2001, he received the Shamus Award for Best First Private Investigator Novel.  He has also been nominated for a Barry Award and 2 Anthony Awards.
Title: Black Widow (2005 film)
Passage: Black Widow, a "Film Noir Musical" is based on the Evelyn Dick murder case.  It premiered in September 2005 on the film festival circuit and on CBC Television in January 2006.
Title: Lennie Weinrib
Passage: Lennie Weinrib (April 29, 1935 – June 28, 2006), also known as Lenny Weinrib, Leonard Weinrib, and Len Weinrib, was an American actor, voice actor, comedian and writer.  He is best known for playing the title role in the children's television show "H.R. Pufnstuf", the title role in "Inch High, Private Eye", the original voice of Scrappy-Doo on "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo", Hunk and Prince Lotor on "Voltron", and Bigmouth on "The Smurfs".  He also was the voice for Timer in the "Time for Timer" ABC public service announcements in the early 1970s.
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