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Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 2282671 | Twentieth Century Fox Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Series: Marquee musicalsPublication details: Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. : Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., ©2006.Description: 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:

two-dimensional moving image

Media type:

video

Carrier type:

videodisc

Other title:

At head of title on container: Howard Hawks'
Howard Hawks' Gentlemen prefer blondes

Uniform titles:

Gentlemen prefer blondes (Motion picture : 1953)

Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:

781.43/72 22

LOC classification:

PN1995.9.C55 G468 2006
PN1997 .G46 2006

NLM classification:

2282671

Contents:

"Two Little Girls from Little Rock" -- Main titles -- Dorothy & Lorelei -- Off to France -- The stateroom -- "Bye Bye Baby" -- Stop having fun -- "Ain't There Anyone Here for Love?" -- Seating arrangements -- Piggy -- Mr. Malone -- Lady Beekman's tiara -- Mr. Spoffords's table -- Someone worthwhile -- In a jam -- The blonde burglar -- Plan B -- Piggy's present -- A wrong guy -- Paris -- The jig's up -- "When Love Goes Wrong" -- Gus comes to Paris -- "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" -- The missing tiara -- A girl like I -- "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (Reprise) -- Who's got the tiara? -- Lorelei's logic -- A double wedding.

Production credits:

Director of photography, Harry J. Wild ; film editor, Hugh S. Fowler ; music and lyrics by, Jule Styne and Leo Robin ; music and lyrics [of] "When Love Goes Wrong" and "Anyone Here for Love?" by Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Adamson ; choreography, Jack Cole ; musical direction, Lionel Newman ; art direction, Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright ; costumes designed by Travilla.

Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Marcel Dalio, Taylor Holmes, Norma Varden, Howard Wendell, Steven Geray.Summary: Bachelorette showgirl singers Dorothy Shaw and Lorelei Lee are sailing to Paris, courtesy of Lorelei's millionaire boyfriend Gus Esmond, Jr. They're also being shadowed--thanks to Gus Sr.--by private detective Ernie Malone. Lorelei gets embroiled in a contretemps involving Sir Francis "Piggy" Beekman, outspoken Lady Beekman, and a tiara. Dorothy, meanwhile, becomes involved in a running flirtation with the detective. All's well that ends well, but everything plays second fiddle to the snazzy costumes and in-your-face attitudes sported by the showgirls. One of Howard Hawks' biggest commercial hits, this lush, garish, cynical, yet fun-filled fortune-hunter satire is based on a 1949 Broadway musical and has a wisp of a plot, serving merely to tie together the lavish musical numbers.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-01861 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050164932

Based on the musical comedy by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, presented on the stage by Herman Levin and Oliver Smith.

Special features: Theatrical trailer (3 min.); Fox Movietone news: "Marilyn & Jane in Cement" (b & w) (1 min.); One sheet gallery [slide show]; Restoration comparison [text and video feature] (2 min.); Marilyn Monroe Theater [previews] (9 min.).

Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1953.

MPAA rating: Not rated; Canadian Home Video Rating: Rated G.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby digital stereo, Dolby digital mono.; full frame presentation preserving the 1.33:1 aspect ratio of the original theatrical exhibition.

In English or dubbed French with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned.

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