Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Country: US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Synopsis:
A pair of showgirls board a transatlantic liner bound for France, the sensible one employed to chaperone her gold-digging friend, whose wealthy fiancé wants to keep an eye on her. Unbeknown to either, he has also hired a private dick, with whom the former falls in love.
Review:
Extremely silly comedy musical, with a couple of celebrated numbers and a script that at times crackles with a sexiness not heard since the days of Mae West. The comediennes are competent rather than inspiring, whether in dialogue or song, but do appear in an array of curve-enhancing gowns: this was the beginning of the hour-glass obsessed fifties, after all. Coburn provides roguish light relief, as does Marcel Dalio as a magistrate, but the only standout Hawksian moment is when Miss Monroe gets herself stuck in a port-hole.
Country: US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Synopsis:
A pair of showgirls board a transatlantic liner bound for France, the sensible one employed to chaperone her gold-digging friend, whose wealthy fiancé wants to keep an eye on her. Unbeknown to either, he has also hired a private dick, with whom the former falls in love.
Review:
Extremely silly comedy musical, with a couple of celebrated numbers and a script that at times crackles with a sexiness not heard since the days of Mae West. The comediennes are competent rather than inspiring, whether in dialogue or song, but do appear in an array of curve-enhancing gowns: this was the beginning of the hour-glass obsessed fifties, after all. Coburn provides roguish light relief, as does Marcel Dalio as a magistrate, but the only standout Hawksian moment is when Miss Monroe gets herself stuck in a port-hole.
Country: US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Synopsis:
A pair of showgirls board a transatlantic liner bound for France, the sensible one employed to chaperone her gold-digging friend, whose wealthy fiancé wants to keep an eye on her. Unbeknown to either, he has also hired a private dick, with whom the former falls in love.
Review:
Extremely silly comedy musical, with a couple of celebrated numbers and a script that at times crackles with a sexiness not heard since the days of Mae West. The comediennes are competent rather than inspiring, whether in dialogue or song, but do appear in an array of curve-enhancing gowns: this was the beginning of the hour-glass obsessed fifties, after all. Coburn provides roguish light relief, as does Marcel Dalio as a magistrate, but the only standout Hawksian moment is when Miss Monroe gets herself stuck in a port-hole.