Eldergays - Tell me about How to Marry A Millionaire

It was one of that studio’s first CinemaScope productions, meaning it had a very wide screen ratio. So the blocking spreads the actors out, often in a straight line.

If you see a pan + scan version made to fit a traditional screen, that’s why the camera seems to move around so much... trying to catch the action.

Notice how the whole image below doesn’t display in preview:

Once they had that unusually wide screen, they had to fill it with stuff. Like this:

Bacall was terrifying in this movie, and Grable didn't register at all.

You wonder why all three men aren't chasing after Marilyn.

Get a millionaire to fall in love with you,

but OP you aim too low, go for a billionaire or at least a multimillionaire.

Except for a very few early films, Bacall was singularly charmless. And like Bette (who when doing color tests for Jezebel exclaimed "Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over!") color film stock was not her friend.

Still, gotta hand it to Bacall, she parlayed slightly above-average looks (which didn't last very long) and subpar acting ability into life-long name recognition, thanks to her storied romance with Bogart.

It is truly amazing how mature Lauren Bacall looked in her 20s. She was beautiful but could have been playing a middle-aged divorcee not a 25-year-old.

It was a movie.

Second Cinemascope film after The Robe. Had Monroe not had to finish her musical numbers in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the filming would have started a month earlier and HTMAM would've been the first.

Exterior of the building is at 36 Sutton Place South.

Originally based upon The Greeks Have a Name for It.

Monroe is the only one of the three to never wear a full skirt.

Inside jokes include referring to Monroe's fashion show outfit as "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend", Bacall's reference to Bogart with "That guy from the African Queen" and Grable's "Just love him" when asked about (husband) Harry James' music on the radio.

Executive tried to create a big feud because Monroe was now obviously Fox's new blonde, replacing Grable. The first day of filming, Betty went up to Marilyn and told her "Honey, I've already had mine. You go get yours."

A photo taken that April show the duo outside Ciro's for Walter Winchell's birthday party. Marilyn wears a white version of the pink dress from Blondes.

I've always had a soft spot for this movie, not sure why. Guess it's the mid-century eye candy, the big overblown orchestral score, and William Powell in something of a last hurrah.

William Powell is meant to be 56 in the movie. A generation or two ago, 56 sure looked different than it does today. The fashions of the time certainly didn’t help.

He was 61 or 62 and real life, but he looked ancient compared to someone that old today.

Remove "about" from the thread title and you could have another interesting thread.

Gowns by Travilla

who received an Oscar nomination for outstanding achievement in Color Costume Design for his work on this film.

When I saw it I did wonder why anyone would go for aged Bacall when he could go after Marilyn

Bacall's snatch wouldn't get wet unless you paid her and she wafted the bills towards her cooze.

Bacall looks like their mother.

Betty got Rory

Ask Darva Conger, OP.

Alongside these two it just hammers home what a stunner Marilyn was.

She should have got the Miss Adelaide role she wanted in "Guys And Dolls" and worked with Hitchcock while she was a relatively diligent performer at this stage in her career.