Release CalendarTop 250 MoviesMost Popular MoviesBrowse Movies by GenreTop Box OfficeShowtimes & TicketsMovie NewsIndia Movie Spotlight
    What's on TV & StreamingTop 250 TV ShowsMost Popular TV ShowsBrowse TV Shows by GenreTV News
    What to WatchLatest TrailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsCannes Film FestivalStar WarsAsian Pacific American Heritage MonthSummer Watch GuideSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll Events
    Born TodayMost Popular CelebsCelebrity News
    Help CenterContributor ZonePolls
For Industry Professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign In
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Back
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Goofs

How to Marry a Millionaire

Edit

Continuity

While eating at the hamburger place, the cigarette in Brookman's left hand changes into a napkin between shots.
At the end, the beer mugs fill themselves.
Pola picks up a fur wrap from the bed at the wedding party and drops on the floor. While she and Schatzie are talking, the wrap is back on the bed.
The flowers change position in the bedroom during the wedding party.
One of the motorcycles that stops Loco and Brewster on the bridge changes its design from when it is seen starting up to when it pulls over the car.

Factual errors

Loco tells Eben and Brewster that she and her mother attended the 1952 Elks convention in Philadelphia. The 1952 Elks convention was held in New York City.
Loco tells Eben and Brewster that she and her mother attended the 1952 Elks convention. Only the wives of delegates could attend the conventions.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Pola repeatedly demonstrates that she is completely blind without her glasses, yet she answers the door for Loco and Hanley, then finds the door handle of the ladies' room the first time after bumping into the wall, despite not wearing her glasses either time.

She is not "completely" blind; Pola's poor eyesight without her glasses is an obvious comic device, so it is employed whenever it works comedically for the film.
Pola winds up on the wrong plane because she confuses "Kansas City" with "Atlantic City". Yet the two names sound so dissimilar, it's a stretch to believe she got them mixed up.

This is an obvious and deliberate joke about Pola being as "blind as a bat".
When Brookman first telephones, he tells Schatze he didn't realize who she was until he saw her in a magazine as "Miss Steinbach Beer", yet that doesn't explain how he got her number. While it's reasonable he contacted Steinbach Beer or her modeling agency, nether would have given him her number without her permission. However, money talks and we learn later that he has plenty of it.
Eben tells Loco that his family has a place at Dexter Mills. There is a Dexter, Maine, but not a Dexter Mills, Maine. However, as this movie is not a documentary but a fictional story, the names of towns do not have to reflect actual locations.
Schatze tells Loco that Hanley is worth 30 million, then tells Pola minutes later that he's worth 50 million. However, both times she's just embellishing.

Revealing mistakes

When driving back from the lodge on a twisting road, Brewster's steering motions don't match the view from the rear window.
It's raining when Freddie is on the terrace. When he slides open the glass-paned wall to enter the apartment, his hand goes through a pane, revealing there is actually no glass.
As the car drives past on the snowy highway en route to the lodge in Maine, it can be seen that the snow has been removed to facilitate the setting up the camera equipment off to the side of the road.
When Schatze is walking up and down on the roof, her shadow isn't matching the shadows on the buildings behind; her shadow falls the opposite way due to the lighting not matching the supposed position of the sun.
When Brookman phones Schatze the first two times, a carton of milk with tape covering its brand name is on the kitchen table.

Crew or equipment visible

When Schatze says to Hanley "... and who does he think he is anyway", the shadow of some lighting equipment can be seen on the painting near the mirror.

Errors in geography

The apartment is supposedly on Sutton Place, but the establishing shot is of Wall Street from the far east end.

Character error

The lease is $1,000 a month, which Schatze tells Benton she wanted to discuss with Freddie. But since Freddie has left the country, Benton indicates the rent is lower as it'd be "the very height of folly" for Freddie to return. However, Schatze writes Benton a check without him telling her or her asking him how much the rent is now.
When Pola tells her about Loco, Schatze replies: "I can't shack up with a dame I haven't even met". "Shack up" is slang for an unmarried couple in a romantic relationship living together. This certainly isn't the case here.

Contribute to this page

Suggest an edit or add missing content
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Top Gap
By what name was How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) officially released in India in English?
Answer
  • See more gaps
  • Learn more about contributing
Edit page

More from this title

More to explore

Recently viewed

Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
Get the IMDb app
Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
Follow IMDb on social
Get the IMDb app
For Android and iOS
Get the IMDb app
  • Help
  • Site Index
  • IMDbPro
  • Box Office Mojo
  • License IMDb Data
  • Press Room
  • Advertising
  • Jobs
  • Conditions of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Ads Privacy Choices
IMDb, an Amazon company

© 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.