Howard Hawks’ famous film with the dazzling duo of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell sparklingly tells a light, naughty and strikingly hilarious story about the nature of a beauty’s love for the rich dowry of her potential suitors, claiming one day to put a ring on the sacred finger of the coveted temptress.
That film also revealed to a wide range of viewers the name of a blond captivator of men’s hearts, who would later become a style icon and a standard of sexuality of the 50′s, zasvolivating a title of a legend of the cinema and the cultural phenomenon. We are talking, of course, about Marilyn Monroe. Here she appears in all her glory (indeed, as in her later works), aesthetically striking with perfect facial features and figure, which (if not seemingly unique before the general public became familiar with the most attractive actress) became a fashion model.
But it’s worth admitting that the smiling beauty’s partner in the film, Jane Russell, is not the least bit inferior (if not superior) to her in acting talent and charisma. Such musical numbers with the charming brunette as scenes in court and on board the liner ‘Queen Mary’ where she dances so passionately (for those years away from us) with a group of hyped up Olympic athletes, who to the beat of orchestral melodies are intensely engaged in gymnastics and exercises with various sports equipment, look simply marvelous, because not only reveal her range of professional and creative skills, but equally with Marilyn concentrate the audience’s attention on her. Not for nothing in the sequel to this motion picture called ‘Gentlemen Marry Brunettes’, Jane Russell has received even more screen time than the original film, albeit with the fact that Monroe did not participate in it. Anyway, the author of this text wants to make it clear in this paragraph that he is no less enamored of Jane compared to Marilyn, and maybe the former struck his heart even harder than the more obvious version.
Thus, ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ is certainly an iconic cinematic work with musical elements, unparalleled in revealing the depth of talent of the two dazzling beauties of their (and our) time in the person of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. The beauty of the girls fascinates, encourages and inspires the male audience, which literally makes them revisit this film which has already become a real classic again and again.
