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| Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) |
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell star in this musical comedy which lacks the wit of the original novel
Philip French
Sunday 28 February 2010
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his 1953 musical comedy, among the last of its kind to be made before the coming of the widescreen, features a golddigging Monroe and a man-eating Russell as busty girls en route by sea from the States to Paris, France. There are a couple of well-staged numbers but less wit and style than are to be found in Anita Loos's demotic classic on which it's based. Released the year Playboy was launched, it features much characteristic 50s coarseness and leering. Gentleman Prefer Blondes is among the weaker works of a great filmmaker, whose two finest comedies (Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday) were made before the war and whose greatest film (Rio Bravo) was yet to come.
THE GUARDIAN
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