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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953

Howard Hawks

Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan ...

6.8

7,794

Comedy. Musical Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Hawks’s whiplash-wicked comic set pieces display his classic themes of gender swaps and repressed desires, and Monroe’s inflections and expressions have a deliciously clever and sharply experienced irony"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide The Times	"Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell melt the screen"	POS
United States	Chicago Tribune	"Marilyn and Jane do very well with a couple of duets."	POS
United States	Boston Globe	"If you are seeing 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' for the first time, it will probably please through its lavishness, and decorative qualities."	POS
United Kingdom	London Evening Standard	"Personally, I would rather read a railway guide than sit through it again."	NEG
United Kingdom	The Guardian	"The film... has some good lines and songs and, in its brash, overblown way, is not bad fun."	NEU
United States	Christian Blauvelt Slant	"If there's a single film that could shatter Laura Mulvey's theory of the "male gaze" it's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."	POS
United States	Newsweek	"The film may be easily viewed, and easily is the word, either as a form of drama or as a piece of erotic anthropology."	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"One of the most charming, entertaining musicals of the 1950s. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Tribune	"A landmark encounter in the battle of the sexes."	POS

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