Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and written by Charles Lederer. The film is based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1925 novel of the same name by Anita Loos. The film stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes and Norma Varden in supporting roles.
Theatrical release poster
Jane Russell as Dorothy Shaw
Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee performing "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"
Drive-in advertisement from 1953.
Howard Winchester Hawks was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. Critic Leonard Maltin called him "the greatest American director who is not a household name." Roger Ebert called Hawks "one of the greatest American directors of pure movies, and a hero of auteur critics because he found his own laconic values in so many different kinds of genre material." He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York (1941) and earned the Honorary Academy Award in 1974.
Hawks in the 1940s
Poster for the comedy Fig Leaves (1926), one of the few early films Hawks valued positively later in his life.
A Girl in Every Port poster
Howard Hawks in 1929 or 1930