Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Dir.Howard Hawks. 1953, 91 mins. 35mm. With Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn. Lorelei (Monroe) and Dorothy (Russell) are just “Two Little Girls from Little Rock,” lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, though “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.” Hawks’s satirical take on the musical genre was described by him as a film which was “purposely loud and bright and completely vulgar in costumes and everything.”