Rating: NR
Genre: Musical
Release Date: 04/19/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 1
Run Time: 97 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: 20th Century Fox

Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei Lee, whose philosophy is "diamonds are a girl's best friend." Together with her best human friend Dorothy (top-billed Jane Russell), showgirl Lorelei embarks upon a boat trip to Paris, where she intends to marry millionaire Gus Esmond (Tommy Noonan). En route, the girls are bedeviled by private detective Malone (Elliot Reid), hired by Esmond's father (Taylor Holmes) to make certain that Lorelei isn't just another gold-digger. When Dorothy falls in love with the poverty-stricken Malone, Lorelei decides to find her pal a wealthier potential husband, and that's how she gets mixed up with flirtatious diamond merchant Sir Francis Beekman (Charles Coburn) and precocious youngster Henry Spofford III (George "Foghorn" Winslow). Most of the Leo Robin-Jule Styne songs from the Broadway show remain intact, including Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend," a production number later imitated by pop icon Madonna.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Jane Russell - Dorothy Shaw
Marilyn Monroe - Lorelei Lee
Charles Coburn - Sir Francis Beekman
Elliott Reid - Det. Malone
Tommy Noonan - Gus Esmond
George Winslow - Henry Spofford III
Marcel Dalio - Magistrate
Taylor Holmes - Gus Esmond, Sr.
Norma Varden - Lady Beekman
Howard Wendell - Watson
Steven Geray - Hotel Manager
Henri Letondal - Grotier
Leo Mostovoy - Phillipe
Alex Frazer - Pritchard
George Davis - Cab Driver
Alphonse Martell - Headwaiter
James Moultrie - Boy Dancer
Fred Moultrie - Boy Dancer
Jean de Briac - Gendarme
Peter Camlin - Gendarme
Harry Carey, Jr. - Winslow
Jean del Val - Ship's Capt
Ray Montgomery - Peters
Alvy Moore - Anderson
Robert Nichols - Evans
Charles Tannen - Ed
Jimmy Young - Stevens
Charles de Ravenne - Purser
John Close - Coach
William Cabanne - Sims
Jack Chefe - Proprietor

Production:
Howard Hawks - Director
Sol C. Siegel - Producer
Lionel Newman Leo Robin Jule Styne - Composer
Hugh S. Fowler - Editor
Charles Lederer - Screen Writer
Claude E. Carpenter - Set Designer
Joseph C. Wright - Art Director
Lyle Wheeler - Art Director
Jack Cole - Choreography
Harry J. Wild - Cinematographer
William Travilla - Costume Designer
Paul Helmick - First Assistant Director
Joseph Fields - From Musical by
Ben Nye, Sr. - Makeup
Earle Hagen - Musical Arrangement
Lionel Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision
Anita Loos - Play Author
Joseph Fields - Play Author
Oliver Smith - Play Author
E. Clayton Ward - Sound/Sound Designer
Roger Heman - Sound/Sound Designer
Ray Kellogg - Special Effects
Herman Levin - Play Author

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