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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 3879
Released: May 29, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
They're three beautiful models, looking for the man and the money of their dreams! Almost broke, they pool their funds to rent a posh Manhattan penthouse in which they plan to lure their victims. But the gold digger's plans suddenly go awry when two of them fall for men who appear to be poor! Trying to stop each other from marrying the wrong guy, Monroe, Grable, Bacall deliver the finest comedic performances of their careers. And they learn that a rich man is actually worthless- unless you're in love with him!
Description of How To Marry A Millionaire:
Nunnally Johnson's Broadway comedy was brought to the big screen by director Jean Negulesco, 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 humor seems dated, though its take on sexual politics is occasionally acute. --Marshall Fine
How To Marry A Millionaire Reviews:
How to Marry a Millionaire 
2009-04-14 - This is not only Marilyn's best ever, but also Betty's and Lauren's. It is for people who love New York, and comedy at it's most glamorous.
'Keep the change, Mac.' 
2009-02-03 - Three models (Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall) pool their resources to rent an expensive penthouse apartment in New York, each girl hoping to catch a wealthy husband...
Cameron Mitchell helps Betty Grable with groceries one morning and meets and falls in love with Bacall... But she rejects him, thinking he is a 'gas pump jockey.'
The girls are nearly broke when Grable introduces them to an oil tycoon, a widower (William Powell) who becomes interested in Bacall... Grable takes a trip with wealthy and married Fred Clark, under the impression that they are going to a convention in Maine... Once at his lodge, she realizes they will be alone and is set to return to New York when she suddenly felt sick... A forest ranger named Rory Calhoun comes into her life, and they fall in love...
Marilyn leaves by plane to meet her one-eyed playboy Alex D'Arcy in Atlantic City, but because she refuses to wear glasses in public to correct her nearsightedness, she gets on the wrong plane... On board she meets David Wayne, the owner of their penthouse apartment, who is on his way to Kansas City to find his tax accountant because of whom he is in trouble with the revenue department...
Bacall, left alone and without money, agrees to marry the oilman Powell...
"How to be a Millionaire" was the second CinemaScope film ever made, the first being "The Robe." The film marked David Wayne's last movie appearance with Marilyn... He made four pictures with her, more than any other actor...
Hilarious
2008-07-30 - These women will go to great lengths to land a rich husband, even if that means selling all they have, living on hot dogs, and going to high society parties to stake out the millionaires. The performances from all three of these actresses are amazing! You can't help but laugh at the silly things they say and do. I am a HUGE Marilyn Monroe fan, and it is one of my favorite movies with her in it, even though I wish she had a slightly bigger part. But hey-it's difficult to see more of her when they have to split the screen time between three. I highly recommend this movie!
How to Marry a Millionaire 
2008-05-31 - A wonderful classic from the 1950s about three women with the perfect plan for future happiness. To marry millionaires. What they don't count on is in their search for a rich husband is finding true love and having to decide which they would rather marry for love or money.
Unfunny Comedy 
2008-05-26 - HTMAM is a mediocrity.
No song-and-dance-numbers. No entertaining dialogue.
Characters which I didn't care much about.
