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Jane Russell,
Jane Russell,
Marilyn Monroe,
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Howard Hawks,
Howard Hawks
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: Not Rated
: 20th Century Fox
: Comedies, Romantic Comedy, Musicals
: 97 min.
: English, French
: English, Spanish
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Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei Lee, whose philosophy is "diamonds are a girl's best friend." Together with her best human friend Dorothy (top-billed Jane Russell), showgirl Lorelei embarks upon a boat trip to Paris, where she intends to marry millionaire Gus Esmond (Tommy Noonan). En route, the girls are bedeviled by private detective Malone (Elliot Reid), hired by Esmond's father (Taylor Holmes) to make certain that Lorelei isn't just another gold-digger. When Dorothy falls in love with the poverty-stricken Malone, Lorelei decides to find her pal a wealthier potential husband, and that's how she gets mixed up with flirtatious diamond merchant Sir Francis Beekman (Charles Coburn) and precocious youngster Henry Spofford III (George "Foghorn" Winslow). Most of the Leo Robin-Jule Styne songs from the Broadway show remain intact, including Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend," a production number later imitated by pop icon Madonna. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Special Features:
- Theatrical Trailer
- Movietone newsreel: Mann's Chinese Theater "Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in Cement"
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| Actually, I'm for brunettes....
by jross3
March 13, 2005 - 3:42 PM PST
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2 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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I found this movie difficult to enjoy. It may be a "classic", but I can't help but think that it's time to lay this movie to rest.
But for the sake of argument, there is some (very little, I think) modern application for this movie. Certainly, there are plenty of shallow people today, maybe even as many as in 1953 (or possibly more, depending on how you look at it). There are still women that will love a man for his money (or his father's money), and women who only care about looks. There are still plenty of idiots that will play along with that game, though more of today's men are aware of it than those shown in this movie.
So I suppose I must admit that it's not terribly out-dated, but I still find very little in it to justify my watching it some 50+ years after it was made. Is it a piece of film history? Arguably so, but were I interested in film history I would take a class on it. But as a movie, in and of itself, I thought it was terribly boring.
For the sake of film historians of the future this film must be preserved (and well-preserved it is; the picture and sound were quite clear). But in my layman opinion, this is more or less a higher-class example of how "Girls Gone Wild" could have been in the 50s.
Perhaps one day I'll sit my grandson on my knee and say, "I know your girl did some things during Spring Break that made you sad, kid, and I can relate. Why, in my grandpa's day, girls would go on a cruise just to make their men lonely, and flirt with the men on the ship. Now go chop some firewood!" |
| Fantastic! SEE IT NOW!
by Cosplayer
February 21, 2005 - 12:10 PM PST
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0 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| My favorite movie ever. I like it because it could ahve really happened, but it was still unique and imaginative. It's very quotable and witty. I feel really bad for them in the end. I feel like there was no love. It was really good though. Extremely underrated. |
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