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  1. Sep 14, 2021 · Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Classic Cult Comedy Trailer with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell@2.0Trailers 50s Playlist 2.0: https://youtube.com/playlist?...

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  2. May 13, 2024 · Gentlemen Prefer Blondes started out as a hit Broadway musical with the same name. It first hit the stage on December 8, 1949 and closed on September 15, 1951 after 740 shows. There was also a ...

  3. [20] Caroline Siede of The A.V. Club wrote the story may appear to be a "90-minute misogynistic punchline about the desperate schemes of two devious social-climbing showgirls, ditzy Lorelei Lee (Monroe) and witty man-eater Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell). Thankfully, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is quite the opposite. It's a cheeky social satire about ...

  4. The very first video we published at our journal was Laura Mulvey’s “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (remix remixed 2013),” a re-edited version of a 30-second sequence of ‘Two Little Girls from Little Rock’, the opening number of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953), carried out, as Mulvey herself writes, “in order to analyze the precision of Marilyn Monroe’s dance movements ...

  5. Mar 6, 2024 · Actress and Hollywood chronicler Louise Brooks loved the book, writing “I think Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a work of art, as good in its way as Jane Austen ’s Pride and Prejudice.”. It became a culture-defining work of the Jazz Age, and was adapted as a play in 1926. Transformed into a Broadway musical in 1949, it made a star of its ...

  6. Feb 3, 2018 · Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the film based on her bestselling 1925 novel, wasn’t made until 1953, and the Hollywood manufacturing process stripped the book of much of Loos’s sarcasm.

  7. Jan 1, 2000 · Original Title: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Marilyn Monroe was very nervous about this follow-up to the star-making Niagara, as she wasn't sure she was up to the challenge of either the musical ...