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Release Date:
5 November 1953 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Most Glamorous Entertainment Of Your Lifetime in CinemaScope. You See It Without Glasses!
Plot:
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
Another 2 nominations
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(6 articles)
Lauren Bacall, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin: Governors Awards 2009
(From Alternative Film Guide. 15 November 2009, 5:04 PM, PST)
Lauren Bacall, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges: Governors Awards 2009
(From Alternative Film Guide. 15 November 2009, 4:13 PM, PST)
(From Alternative Film Guide. 15 November 2009, 5:04 PM, PST)
Lauren Bacall, Annette Bening, Jeff Bridges: Governors Awards 2009
(From Alternative Film Guide. 15 November 2009, 4:13 PM, PST)
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Monroe and Grable and Bacall
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Betty Grable | ... | Loco Dempsey |
 | Marilyn Monroe | ... | Pola Debevoise |
 | Lauren Bacall | ... | Schatze Page |
 | David Wayne | ... | Freddie Denmark |
 | Rory Calhoun | ... | Eben |
| Cameron Mitchell | ... | Tom Brookman |
| Alexander D'Arcy | ... | J. Stewart Merrill (as Alex D'Arcy) |
| Fred Clark | ... | Waldo Brewster |
 | William Powell | ... | J.D. Hanley |
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95 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.55 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
France:U |
Iceland:L |
South Korea:12 |
USA:Approved (PCA #16443) |
Canada:G (video rating) |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:G |
Chile:TE |
Finland:S |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:U |
West Germany:12 |
Norway:7
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Continuity: The flowers change position in the bedroom during the wedding party.
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J.D. Hanley:
[on why Schatze stopped their wedding] There was a last minute decision in your favor.
Tom Brookman: Did you tell her about me?
J.D. Hanley: No. So far as she knows you're still hustling a gas pump.
Tom Brookman: Are you kidding?
J.D. Hanley: Well let's go ask her.
Tom Brookman: Wait a minute JD! Do you think I ought to tell her?
J.D. Hanley: Are you nuts? She clearly prefers gas pump jockeys to millionaires. What do you want to do? Disillusion the poor girl?
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Tom Brookman: Did you tell her about me?
J.D. Hanley: No. So far as she knows you're still hustling a gas pump.
Tom Brookman: Are you kidding?
J.D. Hanley: Well let's go ask her.
Tom Brookman: Wait a minute JD! Do you think I ought to tell her?
J.D. Hanley: Are you nuts? She clearly prefers gas pump jockeys to millionaires. What do you want to do? Disillusion the poor girl?
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Referenced in "The Jeffersons: How Not to Marry a Millionaire (#10.5)" (1983)
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Street Scene
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This entertaining film has the three girls (Pola, played by Marilyn Monroe in specs; Schatze, played by Lauren Bacall and looking rather mumsy; and Loco, played by Betty Grable with those fabulous legs) setting up shop in an apartment, ready to reel in wealthy husbands.
The boys in question include David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Cameron Mitchell, William Powell, and Alex D'Arcy. Trying to figure out the scheming girls is hard for them, especially when the girls are going all out to hide their real personalities!
This glitzy fluff is enlivened by real-life in-jokes - Betty Grable doesn't recognise a Harry James record (she was married to him at the time), and Lauren Bacall says she's mad about 'that old man in The African Queen'(real-life husband Bogart of course). Bacall comes out best of the girls although Monroe is always worth watching and Grable was effective decoration even towards the end of her career, as she was here (having been on screen for over twenty years at this point - her first appearance was in her teens in 'Hold 'Em Jail', I think).