Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

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Summary: Oh Marylin
Review: Marylin Monroe is one of the best actresses in hollywood history. This is one of her most notable and famed movies. Gentleman Prefer Blondes.

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Summary: I'm gonna get flamed for this!
Review: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a film with a ridiculous premise and some pretty wooden performances. Marilyn Monroe plays an avaricious bubblehead and Jane Russell plays her rude, oversexed friend. I found none of the characters likable, with the possible exception of the precocious little rich boy who spends his onscreen time staring at the prodigious bosoms of the two leading ladies.

Most of my time watching this insipid, candy-coated musical was spent with my jaw slack and my eyes glazed. Only occasionally was the glimpse of some deeper plot shown, such as the rationale behind Marilyn's intense need for rich men.

Still, I couldn't help think that if women were really like this, it would certainly excuse a whole lot of misogyny.

The costumes in the film are divine, however. I couldn't help but be thankful the fashions today don't dictate such obviously painful foundation garments. There's no way anyone would fit so nicely into those wasp-waisted dresses without a killer girdle.

The best part of the entire film is definitely the famous "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" performance by Marilyn Monroe. Her song and dance act is excellent, and definitely worth watching, if only as a video clip.

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Summary: Fault in the Box
Review: So, what could be better than Marilyn singing "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" or Jane singing, "Is There Anyone Here for Love?"? For the price, any lover of Hollywood musicals should add this disc to their collection.
While the listing here on Amazon.com correctly states that the film is presented in "Standard" format, the jewel case mistakenly indicates Widescreen format.

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Summary: The best movie EVER!
Review: This movie is my favorite movie of all time, and believe me
I have a HUGE collection. Jane and Marilyn are the ultimate
sisterhood, dancing and singing their way through the good
times and (ahem) bad? What can be bad about having great hair,
jewels, and fabulous gowns...even when our heroines are stuck
in portholes, falling in swimming pools, and getting arrested
they retain the grace, beauty, and humor of an era sadly lost.
One other thing that makes this movie stand out is a little boy,
Mr. Spofford the 3rd, who is absolutely hilarious and in my
opinion almost steals the show from Marilyn and Jane. You'll
want to own and view this movie over and over again!

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Summary: One lives guilty little pleasures!
Review: Ok, so it, i.e., Gentlemen Prefer Blondes VHS ~ Jane Russell , won't solve world hunger or even be remotely intelligent in any way shape or form. However, for some guilty mind numbing fun, then this movie is awesome. The sequence when Marylin sings "Diamonds are a girls best friend" is a blast and it also shows that Monroe was had more tallent then given credit for. She was not merely a pretty face. Russel is quite beatifull and to me she is the better looking of the two; she has class, beauty and is quite funny; almost as beautifull as Lauren Bacall but not quite. Highly Recommended.

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Summary: A guilty pleasure
Review: A gold-digging showgirl scooping up diamonds, furs, cash and rich admirers like a vaccum cleaner as she goes ought to be a repulsive sight to a modern woman like me. But Marilyn is so adorable and Jane Russell is so much fun to watch as her breezy, fun-loving friend Dorothy that you can't resist. The uber-glamorous 50's clothes and costumes alone are worth watching.

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Summary: The best
Review: This is Marilyns most famous movie and features her most famous song..Diamonds.

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Summary: Highly entertaining
Review: This is the original Material Girl. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell star as nightclub singers and dancers who get caught-up in mistaken identity/ jewel thief plot. The DVD doesn't have too many extras -there is a news reel with the two stars in front of Mann's Chinese theater and a few commercials for other Marilyn DVDs but the songs are fun.

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Summary: A grate classic
Review: I just finished watching this movie at a friends house and it was grate. I love Marilyn Manroe and this was a treat. It put me in a better mood and relaxed me. It is just a funny grate movie that if you havent seen should deffinitly rent.

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Summary: The One and Only.
Review: Forget all of the presumptuous psychoanalyzing, Mailer or Steinem gender babble, and gratuitous dissection of the provocative star whose light was prematurely extinguished. MM's screen persona transcends all of the attempts to reduce her to a case study or to exploit her image through imitation. Simply put, no one played Marilyn Monroe better than Norma Jean Baker, who makes the screen come alive in every frame in which her persona appears. To compare her to co-star Jane Russell or to a latter-day impersonator such as Madonna ("Material Girl") is to appreciate all the more the inimitable vibrancy of the original. Howard Hawks' admittedly slight comedy works because of Marilyn, who conquers not merely the males in the cast but makes submissive, willing fools of us all. This film joins Billy Wilder's brilliant comedy, "Some Like It Hot," as one of her 2 indispensable movies.