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Release Date: 29 May, 2001 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $13.48 You SAVE: $1.50! Cast: Complete Cast (10 total) |
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Whimsical comedy starring 3 gorgeous gals
Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe star in a Broadway play adaptation, as three New York models who together rent a Sutton Place apartment in order to attract rich husbands. Their plan appears to go awry when after a few months they are forced to sell the furniture in the lavishly appointed pad for living expenses.
The girls fortunes appear to turn when Bacall meets elderly Texas cattle baron J.D. Hanley played by the debonair William Powell. Grable gets lured to Maine by wealthy but married Fred Clark but winds up falling for and marrying penniless forest ranger Rory Calhoun. The visually challenged but super sexy Monroe winds up on the wrong plane when going to meet her prospective beau in Atlantic City. She winds up enamored with and marrying tax cheat and previous owner of their apartment David Wayne, who is equally blind.
Throughout the film Bacall is pursued by a Tom Brookman played by Cameron Mitchell. She dismisses him as being a poor gas station attendant. Bacall and Powell are all set to be married but at the last moment she can't go through with it. Mitchell, who Bacall really cares for, stands in for Powell and marries her. They are all shocked when they learn that Mitchell is actually worth 200 million.
The gals have their plans dashed but wind up marrying for the right reason...........LOVE.
Innocent years
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE was made in the "innocent" years before movies became cheap and sensationalized. If it were made today, well, I'd hate to think how it would be made. Nothing and no one could beat the three stars of yersteryear. Marilyn, Betty and Lauran were one of a kind and each has a great scene of their own. Together they are really delightful. It's a shame they didn't share more scenes. The Fox look in those days was well...quite wonderful as well as a nice background score. Does the picture hold up today. Yes, but barely. It's just too innocent and clean fun. That's not for todays audiences. Thank God we have DVD. These memories down nostalgia can last forever. The DVD is clear and sharp with nice stereo sound. Too bad the extras weren't better. Someone should have given a commentary. Miss Bacall would have been an excellent choice. Would have been nice to hear how the filming went, how certain shots were established and what scenes were cut from the final print. I think she's the lone survivor who had anything to do with the film, at least as of this date. This is a must see for Marilyn fans as this is my second favorites of her films.
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