Monday, November 3, 2008

#65. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)


Director: Howard Hawks
Screenplay: Charles Lederer (Based on the musical comedy by Joseph Fields & Anita Loos)
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Elliot Field, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Marcel Dailo, Taylor Holmes, Norma Varden

Quote: "I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever."

Howard Hawks' 1953 musical comedy about a dumb blond named Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) didn't only provide 1953 with a funny performance by the two leads, but gives Marilyn her signatures "Diamond's Are A Girl's Best Friend" number. When gold-digger, Lorelei Lee decides to marry millionaire Gus Esmond (Tommy Noonan) in Paris, she starts sailing without him, with a chaperon, her ambitious best friend Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell). But on a high-class boat full of rich old gentlemen with boring wives and a stock of diamond tiaras, there's bond to be trouble when you introduce them to a blond who cannot say NO.

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