Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

1955
Approved
1h 39m

IMDb RATING

5.1/10

698

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Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain in Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)

Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York, as well as getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.

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Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York, as well as getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York, as well as getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York, as well as getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.

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IMDb RATING

5.1/10

698

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck had originally assumed the need to dub the singing voices of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) until musical director Lionel Newman famously stitched together a vocal rendition of their opening number from multiple takes. As a back-up plan, an alternate set of recordings was made with Eileen Wilson dubbing Russell's voice, but in the end both ladies sang for themselves, and Russell even released an album of songs on the MGM label. From that point on, Jane Russell always sang in her own movies, including Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955), and she would go on to a very successful run on Broadway as Elaine Stritch's replacement in the show "Company" in 1971.

Quotes
Connie Jones: Bad dreams? I'm having nightmares in CinemaScope!

Connections
Featured in Legends of World Cinema: Jane Russell

Soundtracks
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes
Music by Herbert W. Spencer and Earle Hagen
Lyrics by Richard Sale
Performed by Johnny Desmond

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Review

Featured review

"You're Driving Me Crazy!"

That's the tune you'll be singing after the movie's over... and not because of it's catchy chords and great lyrics, I assure you...

This is the kind of movie that drives anyone to the brink of insanity... for it tries to cover all genres, and it flops in each and every one of them - it's not a good musical... the orchestrations are awkward, far from easy listening, and can manage to ruin even the most enchanting songs ever composed - 'My Funny Valentine', for instance, and 'Ain't Misbehaving', executed on a hilariously ludicrous 'cannibal african tribe' setting (!).

A good comedy...? No, I don't think so... the amusing lines uttered by Jeanne Crain can't solely carry a feature film... by the by, can anyone believe that those legs actually belong to darling youth, 'Margie'...? :)

A good romantic flick? Again, I doubt it... the romantic interludes are ridiculous, featuring Jane "The Girl That Can't Say No" Russell and Scott Brady, and Jeanne "Tough Gal" Crain and Alan "Filthy Rich Hiding Behind A Social Outcast Mask" Young...

A good drama? Only if your notion of drama is reduced to Scott Brady's supreme could shoulders aimed towards Jane Russell... :)

Well... all things considered, this is a plodding, mindless affair that has it's good moments, but is not to be compared to the classic 'Gentleman Prefer Blondes' in any way.