1953 1h 31m Howard Hawks

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Name: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: 1953
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid

★ 7.1 IMDb

Comedy Romance

Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.

Writers Charles Lederer, Joseph Fields, Anita Loos

Cast Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid

DP Harry J. Wild

Production Designer Claude E. Carpenter

Music Lionel Newman

Essays and Criticism

On Howard Hawks

Howard Hawks by Constance Penley, Saunie Salyer, and Michael Shedlin by Constance Penley, Jump Cut Who is the Hawksian Woman? by Louis Spong, Little White Lies

In conversation with other films

Marilyn Monroe’s Brains by Jonathan Rosenbaum Performing gender in the studio and postmodern musical by Michael Charlton, Alphaville

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