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How to Marry a Millionaire [DVD] [1953] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

Marilyn Monroe (Actor), Lauren Bacall (Actor) | Format: DVD
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English, French
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: Unknown
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 29 May 2001
  • Run Time: 96 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000059GEH
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 160,552 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Nunnally Johnson's Broadway comedy How to Marry a Millionaire was brought to the big screen by director Jean Negulesco and built around a trio of female stars, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable. They play friends who come up with a plan to find and marry rich men: they rent a lavish penthouse and use it as their launching pad to lure men with money in the bank. But each eventually finds that love is more important that material possessions, though it takes a while. One running joke has Monroe so insecure about her looks that she refuses to wear glasses, though this means she bumps into furniture and walls. The other has Bacall rejecting suitor Cameron Mitchell because he doesn't wear a tie, assuming this means he's low-class--when, in fact, he's the Donald Trump of 1954. Pre-feminist comedy captures the mindset of an era in which women's identities were based on the men they married. It has its moments, but much of the humour seems dated, though its take on sexual politics is occasionally acute. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars They don't make 'em like this anymore! 18 Mar 2000
By Tom McGee
Format:VHS Tape
Grable, Monroe and Bacall in one film? Hollywood couldn't afford to do that these days. But in this piece of CinemaScope history, you can lose yourself in this expensively mounted comedy of three models in search of millionaire husbands in New York. Bacall is the brains of the trio, renting a plush Sutton Place appartment as a trap to lure wealthy suitors. Monroe is a myopic bubblehead who refuses to wear her glasses in the company of men, which causes her to bump into waiters and walls,and ends up on the wrong plane, thus meeting her own "millionaire." Grable as the slightly overaged model has some great lines (and her legs still fabulous) as she goes off to Maine and find loves in penniless Rory Calhoun. Great fun - great girls - and great leading me in Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, and David Wayne. Also great is the fact that Amazon.co.uk are now stocking these classics in the Pal System, which makes it easier for European fans to purchase. Well done.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Sparkling Hollywood Gem Restored! 14 Nov 2005
By Trey Mercartné
Format:DVD
"How To Marry A Millionaire" is a typical 20th Century Fox comedy blockbuster of the 1950's. This movie is the very definition of a big, brassy and over-the-top Hollywood of days gone by, and it'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.

Marilyn 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's Hollywood and it looks pretty stunning, it has to be said. This was one of the first movies to use 20th Century Fox's Cinemascope format, which was baisically a 1950's version of today's Widescreen technique. This causes the only real problem for me, which is a lack of close-up's. This is something nearly all other Cinemascope pictures fall victim to. The only other possible complaint about the movie is that it's quite slow moving, but then so are nearly all other films from this time so it's perhaps not a very fair criticism.

So, all things considered, "How To Marry A Millionaire" is a very entertaining movie and a must see for fans of Monroe, Grable or Bacall.... Read more ›

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5.0 out of 5 stars 3 little vixens are we 10 Oct 2010
By R. Poole
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
ok sexual politics aside, this is fabulous and the comic timing and part of monroe is hysterical.bacall is dry and dressed to the nines.grable is actually toned down from her usual brash self and is all the better for it.This movie is choc full of clothes changes for the leading ladies (well this was the 50's)and visually the whole film is a treat.the male leads (the whole premise of the film) definately play second fiddle here.if ever your down this movie will lift you up in no time, even if there is more depth to be found in the froth of a cappuccino!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic 29 July 2005
By R. K. Harvey
Format:DVD
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!
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3.0 out of 5 stars How To Marry A Millionaire, A Critical Review of The Remastered Collection 3 Aug 2009
By Andre Lawrence TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:DVD
First of all, this movie is still hysterical. It is a work of art. Although Marilyn got top billing, she's clearly out-performed by both Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable.

Let me, for a brief moment talk about the "Diamond Collection" version of How To Marry A Millionaire. When you think of remastering, especially older films made on Cineascope or Technicolor, you think of rich, vibrant-colored stories in particular the Rogers and Hammerstein collection. Excellent. You, especially, think of the remastered Disney Collection. Excellent. Both of which, were competing genres at the time Marilyn was making a name for herself. You might even throw the remastered "The Wizard of Oz" (1937) in the fray. And yet, this "Diamond Collection" is barely passable as a DVD version. This isn't a distinct restoration. The images, even in the special feature section "Restoration Comparison" shows how little the previous version and the film version hasn't had much improvement with this collection. Don't get me wrong, the sound reproduction is superb, but this is comedy and a lot depends on visuals.

Recently, I started to repurchase the Disney collection-- their "Platinum 2-disc" set. Cinderella, Peter Pan. And, there is a profound difference between the last version and this deluxe version. The Sound of Music, the same thing.

This isn't to say, it's not worth watching, but there's little to no improvement in picture quality. And, that's too bad, the technology is already here and their apology for "grainy film loss" is no excuse for not investing in a better color transfer system.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Languages & Verdict
DVD Zone 2

Ratio of the feature film:
2.55:1 (original ratio) - 16/9 encoding

Languages of the feature film:
Dolby 4.0: English
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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. Read more
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