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

DVD ~ Marilyn Monroe
3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 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: 2.55:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 29 May 2001
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000059GEH
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 112,415 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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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6 of 6 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@net.ntl.com (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How To Marry A Millionaire [VHS] [1953] (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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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What is Burger worth?, 16 Mar 2006
By bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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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. 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.

This movie is packed with many haps and mishaps as they maneuver and are maneuvered.
As zero hr approaches will they land their potential husbands?
And is a millionaire what they want?

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3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars poor quality. less quality for much money, 19 Jul 2000
By nourdin@gmx.de (wermelskirchen, germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: How To Marry A Millionaire [VHS] [1953] (VHS Tape)
The man from wuppertal is right. No cinemascope picture, mono-sound, 20 th century fox releases films not belonging to the 21th century. What a pity! Only technically seen. The film in it' s original version (stereo and widescreen-format) is a jewel in film history. But what counts in this review is that what I get when I would buy the tape and that is really not good enough. It' s out of the question to buy.
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The second film made in Cinemascope and one of the first with stereo-sound has been released by Twentieth Century-Fox with nothing at all of those extraordinary effects. Read more
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