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DVD Details
- Newsreel
- Theatrical Trailers
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 29, 2001
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable & Lauren Bacall | |
Performer: | William Powell, Cameron Mitchell, Rory Calhoun, David Wayne, Fred Clark, Alexander D'Arcy, Harry Carter & George Dunn | |
Directed by | Jean Negulesco | |
Edited by | Louis R. Loeffler | |
Screenwriting by | Nunnally Johnson | |
Composition by | Alfred Newman & Cyril J. Mockridge | |
Produced by | Nunnally Johnson | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph MacDonald |
Entertainment Reviews:
A real standout among the other players is William Powell as the elderly Texas rancher who woos, wins and then gives up Bacall.
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Variety
A rather rambling but entertaining comedy, effectively filmed in the wide-screen CinemaScope process.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
a comedy about several models trying to land rich husbands, gets by on the talents of the stars,
DVDLaser
Rating: 4/5 --
In How to Marry a Millionaire, directed by John Negulesco, there is the triple delight of Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall in one movie -- and one apartment.
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Times (UK)
The substance is still insufficient for the vast spread of screen which CinemaScope throws across the front of the theatre, and the impression it leaves is that of nonsense from a few people in a great big hall.
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New York Times
...Still funny enough to make you see why it was '53's fourth biggest box office it...
USA Today
The stars save this 1953 entry, through fruitful collision if not smooth collaboration.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
Marilyn Monroe delivers one of the finest comedic performances of her career in this outrageously funny film co-starring Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall. Three beautiful models plan to snag rich husbands by pooling their funds and renting a posh Manhattan penthouse in which to lure their victims. What follows is a series of near-marital mishaps where love prevails over money, proving that even gold diggers sometimes have hearts of gold!
Product Description:
Three screen goddesses--Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, and Marilyn Monroe--star as golddigging models blessed with fabulous looks but limited brain power. The three blondes pool their resources and conspire to nab millionaire husbands, renting an expensive penthouse to lure in their likely prey. But with Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, David Wayne, Fred Clark, Alex D'Arcy, and William Powell playing the desired millionaires, the gals are pushed to the end of their wits as they try to decide whom to wed.
Basing his work on two successful stage plays, famed producer and screenwriter Nunnally Johnson's dialogue is fabulous, and scenic views of Manhatten exploit the CinemaScope widescreen aesthetic. Director Jean Negulesco keeps the antics of the remarkable ensemble cast hyped to an outrageous level, which combines perfectly with both the script and the music to create exceptionally entertaining and classic camp. This film is a must-see for fans of Marilyn Monroe, who again asserts the brilliance of her comedic timing as the extremely myopic Pola, a woman who refuses to wear glasses because she fears that they ruin her looks.
Basing his work on two successful stage plays, famed producer and screenwriter Nunnally Johnson's dialogue is fabulous, and scenic views of Manhatten exploit the CinemaScope widescreen aesthetic. Director Jean Negulesco keeps the antics of the remarkable ensemble cast hyped to an outrageous level, which combines perfectly with both the script and the music to create exceptionally entertaining and classic camp. This film is a must-see for fans of Marilyn Monroe, who again asserts the brilliance of her comedic timing as the extremely myopic Pola, a woman who refuses to wear glasses because she fears that they ruin her looks.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 123,120
- UPC: 024543014287
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