How To Marry A Millionaire | 
| Director: Jean Negulesco
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 2839
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.55:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2001427D
UPC: 024543014270
EAN: 0024543014270
ASIN: B000059GEH
Theatrical Release Date: November 5, 1953
Release Date: May 29, 2001
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Product Description
Three beautiful young woen are determined to marry for money - but things dont go quite the way they planned them. Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 04/20/2004 Starring: Marilyn Monroe Betty Grable Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr
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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
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 How to Marry a Millionaire April 14, 2009
Nancy D. Higgins (USA)
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.' February 3, 2009
Roberto Frangie (Leon, Gto. Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 July 30, 2008
Miss Molly Sue (ID, USA)
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 May 31, 2008
Paul Jutras (Florida, USA)
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 May 26, 2008
Eric J (Minnesota , US)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
HTMAM is a mediocrity.
No song-and-dance-numbers. No entertaining dialogue.
Characters which I didn't care much about.
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