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Director:
Writers:
Charles Lederer (screenplay)
Joseph Fields (musical comedy) ...
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Release Date:
18 July 1953 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Two M-M-Marvels Of Our Age In The Wonder Musical Of The World!
Plot:
Lorelei and Dorothy are just "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise... more | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
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(11 articles)
November. It's a Wrap
 (From FilmExperience. 30 November 2009, 6:25 PM, PST)

(Musical) Monologue - "Honey you'll hurt yourself"
 (From FilmExperience. 17 November 2009, 4:24 AM, PST)

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Howard Hawks tackles a Broadway show and Marilyn Monroe. more (98 total)

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Also Known As:
Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
91 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)

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Trivia:
A song written for Marilyn Monroe to perform in this picture, "Down Boy" (music by Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics by Harold Adamson), was rejected, but later sung and danced by Betty Grable in Three for the Show (1955). more
Goofs:
Continuity: Lorelei has slender hands with long fingers and her nails are manicured. But, when she pulls the roll of film out of Ernie's pants, her hand is short with thick fingers and her nails are cut. more
Quotes:
Lorelei Lee: I've been wondering, what is your line, Mr. Malone?
Ernie Malone: My line? My most effective one is to tell a girl she has hair like a tortured midnight, lips like a red couch in an ivory palace that I'm lonely and starved for affection. Then, I generally burst into tears. It seldom works.
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Were Monroe and Russell bitter rivals?
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7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Howard Hawks tackles a Broadway show and Marilyn Monroe., 16 July 2003
Author: TheVid from Colorado Springs

As a demonstration of Hawks' versatility, this picture stands out. It's anything but a faithful adaptation of the Anita Loos story, but in Hawks skilled hands, it's as delightful and silly as his best screwball comedies, and an evocative example of the sexpot exploitation prominent in it's day. Monroe and Russell complement each other nicely as glamour babes beyond belief. The flamboyant musical numbers are deliriously fetishistic and there are some particularly hilarious bits involving a hoarse-voiced little boy and a dirty old man. Sensationally staged and provocatively primitive.

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