Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weisbart: "It's a kind of an offbeat thing. The doctor's approach in most of the picture is fairly intellectual rather than physical. Of course, at the end he turns out to be brave." ¶ River of No Return (20th Century-Fox) is a CinemaScopepic starring Marilyn Monroe, who 1) wears "Tailored Levis," 2) fights off Indians on a raft with an oar, 3) sings two songs, 4) battles a wildcat barehanded and wins. ¶ King of the Khyber Rifles (20th Century-Fox), also in CinemaScope, stars Tyrone Power in India, has been called an "eastern western...
Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe, cast as three little lovebirds in search of a gilded cage, decide that the best way to catch a millionaire is to set a trap. They set one, accordingly, in a sublet apartment on Manhattan's Sutton Place-a happy hunting ground for mink, the script says-and bait it with everything they've got, which is mostly cheesecake. Millionaires apparently like the bait as well as most fellows, and pretty soon they are wolfing away at the door. In the end, of course, the filthy lucre loses out to nice...
...mainspring of the mantrap, Lauren Bacall is the least convincing of the three. She does her work with a reptile eye and a cold, slit grin. Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand, is pert and comfortable as a not-so-dumb blonde who doesn't like to wear glasses for fear men won't make passes. Betty Grable, a performer who has always appeared to have just about as much above the eyebrows as below, carries off the show with such scenes as the one in which she arrives with her millionaire friend at his "lodge" in Maine...
Despite the stereophonic cooing of CinemaScope's newer, wider Marilyn Monroe, How to Marry a Millionaire ends up just another routine Techni-color movie. Substituting torsos for originality, Hollywood has swelled the female form up to unprecedented size without attempting to increase the script's humor proportionately...
...hero (Jeff Chandler) is the strong, noisy type: all things to all men, but just one thing to women. Off to a jungle island to shovel out some tin, he first digs a blonde (Marilyn Maxwell). The next thing that comes to hand is a native princess (Suzan Ball). Eventually, Jeff gets fed up with his babes in the woods, and goes to bed with a bottle of whisky. "Sleep," he murmurs, "that's the stuff that knits the raveled sleave of care." But one session with Bartlett does not make an egghead, and next day Jeff is right...