starring Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn
directed by Howard Hawks
91 minutes
Showgirl Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) is eager to get married to Gus Esmond. She travels by ship with Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell), her best friend, to Paris expecting that Esmond will be eager and willing to marry her when they arrive. Lorelei tries to get Dorothy hooked up and hitched to a rich man like Gus but Dorothy has other ideas and instead falls for Ernie Malone. He's a private detective who has been hired by Esmond's father to dig up some dirt on his son's fiancée. Shaw discover Ernie's real reason being on the ship until later in the movie.
Everything goes relatively okay until they arrive in France. Malone reports his findings to Esmond Sr. despite the efforts that Lorelei and Dorothy make to steal Ernie's evidence of Lorelei's wrongdoing with Piggy (Charles Coburn), another passenger aboard the ocean liner.
Thoughts
This isn't a musical but it has a number of musical numbers in it. According to my research, Howard Hawks eventually admitted that he did not direct the musical numbers.
I saw this movie at the AFI Silver. It was nice to see it on the big screen but unfortunately it was on their smallest screen where there really isn't as much space between the viewer and the screen as I prefer. I wish that they they had shown it on one of their two other screens.
Piggy wears a monocle. I kept expecting it to pop out at some point. It never did. I also wondered how they kept it in place.
This was a fun, light-hearted watch. I don't believe I have seen it before although I had certainly seen clips of Monroe's performance of Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend before.
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