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How To Marry A Millionaire [DVD] [1953]
enlarge	Director: Jean Negulesco Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£12.99~~ Buy New: £2.94 as of 22/11/2009 07:31 GMT details You Save: £10.05 (77%) New (13) Used (6) from £2.50 Seller: twentyfiveorless Rating: 5 reviews Sales Rank: 7961 Format: PAL Language: English (Original Language) Rating: Universal, suitable for all Region: 2 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 92 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5039036020947 ASIN: B0007RUSK8 Theatrical Release Date: 1953 Release Date: May 22, 2006 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Customer Reviews: A Sparkling Hollywood Gem Restored! November 14, 2005 Trey Mercartné 5 out of 5 found this review helpful "How To Marry A Millionaire" is a typical 20th Century Fox comedy blockbuster of the 1950#x27;s. This movie is the very definition of a big, brassy and over-the-top Hollywood of days gone by, and it#x27;s all the more fabulous for it. The three leading ladies are wonderful - each providing something different from the other and all of them truly accomplished and talented comedy actresses. pMarilyn Monroe, for my money, steals the show hands down. She is absoloutley adorable in the film and she looks at her most beautiful, too. Many other beautiful women have drifted in and out of film over the years, but in "How To Marry A Millionaire" it should be obvious to anyone that Monroe is the most beautiful of them all, period. She is also puts in the kind of perfected comedy performance nobody else can. Betty Grable is wonderful, and just as hillarious and beautiful. Lauren Bacall leads the way and is pretty much flawless in her portrayal of the money-hunting ladies ring leader. The cinemaphotography is pure 1950#x27;s Hollywood and it looks pretty stunning, it has to be said. This was one of the first movies to use 20th Century Fox#x27;s Cinemascope format, which was baisically a 1950#x27;s version of today#x27;s Widescreen technique. This causes the only real problem for me, which is a lack of close-up#x27;s. This is something nearly all other Cinemascope pictures fall victim to. The only other possible complaint about the movie is that it#x27;s quite slow moving, but then so are nearly all other films from this time so it#x27;s perhaps not a very fair criticism. pSo, all things considered, "How To Marry A Millionaire" is a very entertaining movie and a must see for fans of Monroe, Grable or Bacall. The script, although dated in places, holds up pretty well and even provides a rather poignant take on Sexual Politics in places. This DVD offers a wonderful restoration of a true Hollywood gem that remains as sparkly and fabulous as it must have been 50 years ago. Fantastic July 30, 2005 R. K. Harvey (Essex, UK) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This film is so funny, I've seen it so many times, yet still find myself laughing at the fantastic performances from Monroe, Grable and Bacall. Three lovely ladies make a pact to catch and marry a millionaire and they only need one,because where there's one there's more! However, what they don't expect is to fall in love with men who may not have any money! A Brilliant film that is sure to make you laugh! What is Burger worth? April 4, 2005 bernie (Arlington, Texas) 3 out of 8 found this review helpful Three women, Bacall, Monroe and Grable make a pact to marry millionaires. They have a limited budget for the project and find unique ways to stretch their funds. They rent a hotel sweet and work their operation from there. As they hone in on their quarry, hamburgers from a gas pump jockey are fortifying one. Another is spying out the land and forests. A third checks out a lodge. pThis movie is packed with many haps and mishaps as they maneuver and are maneuvered. brAs zero hr approaches will they land their potential husbands? brAnd is a millionaire what they want? The Ladies of Sutton Place June 28, 2007 Rama Rao (Annandale, VA, USA) The title of the movie says it all; it is not exactly the movie a modern day feminist would like to see; then again it stars some of greatest women of Hollywood. The main attraction of the movie are; Schatze Page (Lauren Bacall), Pola Debevoise (Marilyn Monroe), and Loco Dempsey (Betty Grable). This romantic comedy is set in Manhattan about three women who team up with an elaborate scheme to lure wealthy men with an intention to marry them. They rent a penthouse, sell the furniture that doesn't belong to them, and use the funds to support themselves. Schatze is the team leader who is smart and all brains; other two are ditsy blondes. Schatze has her eyes set on an elderly, charming and wealthy widower J.D. Hanley (William Powell), at the same time ignores the advances of a young man by the name of Tom Brookman (Cameron Mitchell) whom she thinks is a poor "gas pump jockey." The three ladies meet men of their dreams; the gold digger's plans go awry when the two blondes fall in love with men who are poor, and they desperately try to stop each other from marrying the wrong men. At the end the two blondes end up marrying these men in the name of love. Schatze hits the jackpot; when Hanley offers to marry her; she has a change of heart, and she finds that she will be marrying Tom who is not poor as she always suspected, but a millionaire. Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, and Betty Grable deliver the best performances of their careers as "desperate women," but Lauren Bacall is a clincher, and most impressive in the number one spot. This movie was directed by Jean Negulesco, who also directed movies such as, Johnny Belinda (1948), Best of Everything (1959), Titanic (1953), and The Rains of Ranchipur (1955). This movie was produced and written by Nunnally Johnson who wrote successful movies such as, The Dirty Dozen (1967), Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962), and Jesse James (1939). br / br / Three Gold Diggers August 15, 2009 G. D. Matthews (Piraeus - Greece) A terrific musical comedy. One has to admire the various methods they use to catch a really rich man that they love and marry. However they. each in turn, soon realise that 'money without love' is worthless. br /As Granny usd to say "When money walks in the door - love flies out the window!!" br /

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