Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell
*reposted from my previous film site in an effort to get everything in one location*
You can’t watch dramas all the time. You can’t watch serious, arthouse fare all the time. Every now and then, a crazy comedy hits the spot. If I’m looking for a crazy comedy that comes with the luminous Marilyn, catchy songs, and dazzling Technicolor, then I reach for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Lorelei (Monroe) and Dorothy (Russell) are best friends but polar opposites. Lorelei is hell bent on marrying her millionaire boyfriend despite the fact that he’s a bit geeky, but she needs to get him away from his objecting father first, so she sails for Europe. Dorothy accompanies her, and although she gets distracted by the Olympic men’s track team along the way, falls for the charming but penniless private eye who is spying on Lorelei. Complications arise, wacky situations are resolved, and, no shocker here, all ends happily.
