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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.
Aug 15, 2022 · The title of the 1953 film, based on a 1949 stage musical, and starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, assures us that gentlemen prefer blondes. Some may see this title, as well as Monroe's...
Mar 6, 2024 · Although there is now a trend to celebrate more curvaceous figures, until recently, few modern women would have envied and copied the William Travilla costumes, or the generous female figures in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and its sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928), are wide-ranging satires of interwar American culture, including among their targets consumerism
reading of her text, so Gentlemen Prefer Blondes seems to have resisted these "serious" impulses of its critics. What follows is an attempt to take Blondes seriously but without turning it into tragedy. This involves understanding the work in several of its interrelated contexts: as a modernist narrative and as a popular
Feb 3, 2018 · The film version of Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes would not pass the Bechdel Test. It’s true that the power dynamic is inverted: apparently stupid women take advantage of richer and much ...
Dec 1, 2021 · While Faulkner, Wharton, and Joyce praised the novel for its brilliance, reveals Susan Hegeman, for decades to come, serious literary critics dismissed the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ protagonist as amusing, but, among other things, sexually problematic (Citation 1995).
