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Marilyn Monroe - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Seven Year Itch / How To Marry A Millionaire [1955]
starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Betty Grable
directed by: Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks, Jean Negulesco

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5039036000888
Format: Box set, PAL
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release Date: November 15, 1999
Running Time: 369 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: June 03, 1955
Sales Rank: 26319

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes:: Anita Loos' old story from the 1920s about a pair of single women in search of husbands gets a makeover in Howard Hawks' 1953 musical, starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as friends who go to Paris looking for mates. The film is charged by Hawks' stylish snap, a famous set piece or two (Monroe descending that staircase while singing "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend"), Russell's wit and songs by Leo Robin and Jule Styne. The film may largely be a fluff project best remembered as a showcase for its leading actresses, but then Monroe and Russell rarely got such extended opportunities to prove that they were more than cinematic icons.--Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

The Seven Year Itch: a married man, left alone during a hot summer, fantasises madly about the impossibly gorgeous woman living in the upstairs apartment. When the woman is Marilyn Monroe, such fantasies are the stuff of epics, and The Seven Year Itch is a memorable laugh machine. Tom Ewell, repeating his role from George Axelrod's Broadway hit, plays the itchy protagonist, whose vivid imagination gets the better of him. When Monroe finally comes downstairs and becomes friends (confiding, among other things, that she keeps her undies in the icebox in this hot weather), imagination meets reality in a merciless attack on the male libido. Ewell's crack timing is matched by Monroe's zesty comic flair, and the scene in which her white dress is blown skyward by a passing subway train has entered the encyclopaedia of great movie images. Director Billy Wilder adapted the play with Axelrod; if the film is not one of Wilder's signature works (Some Like It Hot and The Apartment would soon follow), it is nevertheless a smoothly crafted comedy.--Robert Horton, Amazon.com

How to Marry a Millionaire: Nunnally Johnson's Broadway comedy was brought to the big screen by director Jean Negulesco and built around a trio of female stars, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable. They play friends who come up with a plan to find and marry rich men: they rent a lavish penthouse and use it as their launching pad to lure men with money in the bank. But each eventually finds that love is more important that material possessions, though it takes a while. One running joke has Monroe so insecure about her looks that she refuses to wear glasses, though this means she bumps into furniture and walls. The other has Bacall rejecting suitor Cameron Mitchell because he doesn't wear a tie, assuming this means he's low-class--when, in fact, he's the Donald Trump of 1954. Pre-feminist comedy captures the mindset of an era in which women's identities were based on the men they married. It has its moments, but much of the humour seems dated, though its take on sexual politics is occasionally acute.--Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Sweet Marilyn
Here is a chance to see the intensity of Marilyn's presence. When you watch "How To Marry A Millionaire" and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", you may be surprised to realize that she was not the lead actress, because your eyes follow her unconsciously everywhere on the screen and at the end you may find yourself wondering who the other actresses were. As for "The Seven-Year Itch", well, it's Marilyn at her best, so great a performance that people still discuss whether she was really dumb. Here's a question to which sweet Marilyn gives a very obvious answer: "if I'm playing the dumb blonde, do you expect me to look intelligent?"

 



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