Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.

Director:

Richard Sale

Writers:

Anita Loos (novel), Mary Loos (written for the screen by),

Stars:

Jane Russell, Jeanne Crain, Alan Young

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jane Russell	...	Bonnie Jones / Mimi Jones
Jeanne Crain	...	Connie Jones / Mitzi Jones
Alan Young	...	Charlie Biddle / Mrs. Biddle / Mr. Henry Biddle
Scott Brady	...	David Action
Rudy Vallee	...	Himself
Guy Middleton	...	Earl of Wickenware
Eric Pohlmann	...	M. Ballard
Robert Favart	...	Hotel Manager
Guido Lorraine	...	M. Marcel
Ferdy Mayne	...	M. Dufond
Boyd Cabeen	...	Pilot
Howard Tracy	...	Chauffeur (as Edward Tracy)
Leonard Sachs	...	M. Dufy
Gini Young	...	Blonde
Carmen Nesbitt	...	Blonde

Storyline

Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.

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Plot Keywords:

sister | showgirl | sequel | based on novel

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Taglines:

See 'em sizzle in the big, buxom, beautiful musical!

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Genres:

Comedy | Musical

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English French

Release Date:

29 October 1955 (USA)

Also Known As:

So liebt man in Paris

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

Russ-Field Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

4-Track Stereo

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.55 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

However, one gets a brief glimpse of Ms. Verdon as a 'flapper' at the very beginning of the brief flashback number, "Miss Annabelle Lee" (showing the 'aunts' in flashback in the 1920's).

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Quotes

Connie Jones: Dreams? I'm having nightmares in CinemaScope!

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Connections

Referenced in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

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Soundtracks

"Ain't Misbehavin'"
Written by Fats Waller, Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf
Sung by Alan Young, Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain (dubbed by Anita Ellis)

User Reviews

The Worst Musical of All Time, but the Most Entertaining

Have you ever seen such an awful movie that despite how bad it is it's still very entertaining? Well, welcome to the world of Anita Loo's and find out why Gentlemen may Prefer Blondes, but they don't neccessarily Marry Brunettes.

Here we have Jane Russell giving a very bad imitation of Marilyn Monroe with Jeanne Crain doing a very bad imitation of Jane Russell whose singing is dubbed by Anita Ellis who had dubbed Vera Ellen in the movie "Three Little Words". Then we've got Rudy Vallee who looks like he's a zombie on his last leg, ready for the grave, but still trying to sing "Have You Met Miss Jones" and a very bad, but hilarious rendition of, "I Wanna Be Loved By You" with Jane and Jeanne impersonating brainless idiot chorus girls, singing in high-pitched brainless notes through their noses, and on the soundtrack album it states that the singing for this particular number is sung by Miss Crain herself, and if I had been Miss Crain I, in no way, would have admitted to it by allowing that to appear on the album, but she's justified by a wonderful rendition, even though dubbed by Anita Ellis, of "My Funny Valentine"! Then you've got "You're Driving Me Crazy" which is fun, especially when the girls are expected to lift their fans at the end of the number saying, "I Couldn't Care Less!", and appear nude in front of the audiance, and Alan Young is booing them with the rest of the audiance, and Jane Russell later defends their actions by saying that they thought the French had a sense of humor!

Then you've got Scott Brady who didn't do his own singing [Robert Farnon the director of the orchestra did the dubbing for Brady], but Alan Young did do his own singing, but I really have to admit that even though the final number in the film has to be the worse musical number ever filmed for a movie, I really enjoyed it! Well, it WAS different! Here's Jane and Jeanne dressed up like birds of paradise standing in a pot ready to be cooked for dinner by the restless hungry natives in Africa and Alan Young is up in a tree dressed up like an Ape, and he, the girls, and the natives are all singing Ain't Misbehaving which makes about as much sense as an adajio dancer trying to dance on a hot rock, but pulling this whole ridiculous number together with the singing which isn't really that bad even though the natives sound like their singing Tarzan's favorite line OOM-GOW-WHAH during the chorus - dumb as it was - I LIKED IT, especially when Jane Russell does her sultry sexy rendition of Ain't Misbehaving like only she can do with the natives in the background still sounding like their singing OOM-GOW-WHAH!

But, the ending is priceless with Scott Brady starting out saying:

SCOTT: Bonnie! Will you marry me? JANE: [Imitating Marilyn Monroe] No! SCOTT: Bonnie! Do you really mean that? JANE: [Imitating Jane Russell] No!

Then she breaks into song singing some of "I Got Five Dollars" and when she gets to "Everything" Scott Brady asks, "Everything?" and she answers "Everything" and while they kiss, Jane Russell appears aboard as her older gray haired, wrinkled up, Aunt or Mother or whoever she is, and she sees what's happening, and she says, in her crackly old-age voice, to the Captain of the ship:

WHERE'S THE BAR!

And that's exactly how you feel when the movie is ending:

WHERE'S THE BAR!

Make mine a double vodka on the rocks with a twist of lemon, thank you very much so that I can justify, with what's left of my mind after viewing this two-hour fiasco, why I found this very bad, awful, musical so entertaining!