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  How to Marry a Millionaire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 film, directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, and Betty Grable.
The first ever picture to be filmed in CinemaScope, it features a sizeable Manhattan apartment that three models rent, in hopes to end up marrying millionaires.
On the plane, Pola is reading a book called "Murder By Strangulation" which is how Marilyn Monroe's character met her demise in Niagara.
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 How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Instead, with How to Marry A Millionaire, Monroe took an apparent step backwards and became part of a trio, one that put her as the junior partner between two better-established actresses.
Millionaire wasn’t meant to be a penetrating character piece, so I didn’t mind that we learn relatively little about the backgrounds and motivations of these women.
How to Marry a Millionaire appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.55:1 on this single-sided, dual-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
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 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE
In the history of the cinema, HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE is a notable entry because it was the first film to be produced in 20th Century Fox's wide screen process- CinemaScope.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE is one of my favorite Marilyn Monroe films because it erased all doubt about her talents.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE is available individually on DVD for $24.98 or as part of Marilyn Monroe: The Diamond Collection for $99.98.
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How to Marry a Millionaire is the second movie in the first of three box sets devoted to Marilyn Monroe’s movies.
Like any romantic comedy How to Marry a Millionaire has a simple and uncomplicated plot and a predictable ending, but the fun of any movie from this genre is the journey, and not the ending itself.
How to Marry a Millionaire is presented in 2.35:1 aspect ratio on a dual-layered disc.
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 How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Then she donned a pair of glasses to join Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall as a trio of good-hearted fortune hunters in How to Marry a Millionaire, a film as notable for its technical achievements as for its glamorous stars and still-witty story.
Schatze appears to have the best luck — her millionaire, J.D. Hanley (the sublime William Powell), is a Texas oilman and widower, whose kindness and big heart compensate for his one glaring defect — he's old enough to be her father.
How to Marry a Millionaire also was one of the films to pioneer stereophonic sound — so much so that, even though it is not a musical, the film begins with an overture of composer Alfred Newman conducting an orchestra in his composition "Street Scene."
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 The Jujube Spotlight - How to Marry a Millionaire
"How to Marry a Millionaire" is a good choice for this week's Spotlight because of the contrast it offers to "Down With Love," the subject of one of last week's Reviews (although if this was a deliberate choice, it was a subconscious one).
"How to Marry a Millionaire" definitely bears the mark of its era, but not in its depiction of gold-digging females and the doofusy males on whom they prey (which sick, socially contrived game is alive and well today in TV shows like "Joe Millionaire").
All three inhabit their characters' skins with absolute ease and grace, so that whether they're being ditzy, callous, or swoony, you can understand how they would be tempting to any man who crossed their path.
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 dOc DVD Review: How To Marry A Millionaire (1953)
When watching a movie like How To Marry A Millionaire, one is struck by the seeming naïveté of the humor.
How To Marry A Millionaire was the first film made with Cinemascope, although The Robe was the first released.
But, How To Marry A Millionaire is imminently watchable and is very entertaining, both for itself and as part of the Monroe filmography.
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 How to Marry a Millionaire Movie: How to Marry a Millionaire DVD is available from Bestprices.com
This film is a must-see for fans of Marilyn Monroe, who again asserts the brilliance of her comedic timing as the extremely myopic Pola, a woman who refuses to wear glasses because she fears that they ruin her looks.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE was the first feature film completed in CinemaScope, but THE ROBE beat it to theaters.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE is a remake of the 1932 film THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR THEM, aka THREE BROADWAY GIRLS.
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 How to marry a millionaire
It's called How to Meet the Rich, it only costs 52 bucks, and it gives pointers on everything from spotting the rich, gaining access to their favourite hangouts, dressing like them, talking like them, titillating them and, of course, marrying them.
They were an ordinary looking group, dressed conservatively (except for one young woman in bright pink lycra) and not one of them fit the old-world stereotype of the well-coiffed femme fatale or the well-groomed dandy.
Two women who attended both the Flirt and Marry Rich classes said they came because they were curious about the content and desperate to get out of a rut.
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 USATODAY.com - How to marry your own millionaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
They may marry the boss — but they just as often marry a rich business associate of their boss.
However, they usually only marry the person, if he or she is "elevatable" — i.e.
Translate that into how you view your own individuality — as an asset that has equal value to their cash — so you are just as rich as they are in your own way.
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 DVD : How To Marry A Millionaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Pre-feminist comedy captures the mindset of an era in which women's identities were based on the men they married.
We truly were sighing before the movie actually began, as the makers spent such a huge amount of time portraying a full-blown orchestra playing the entire theme song.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE was made in the "innocent" years before movies became cheap and sensationalized.
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 How To Marry A Millionaire TV Show - How To Marry A Millionaire Television Show - TV.com
The comedy about 3 girls searching for millionaires to marry was based on a play by Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert and the 1953 movie of the same name.
How To Marry A Millionaire Cast and Crew
This unscripted drama series sends 20 women to France (and later Italy) for a whirlwind romance with a man whom they think is a dashing millionaire.
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 DVD Verdict Review - How To Marry A Millionaire
How to Marry a Millionaire was only the second film to be released in Cinemascope.
The story involves the efforts of three women to find and marry a millionaire.
Actually, only one of them seems to be really dedicated to hooking a millionaire; the others seem to be content to find any husband, rich or not.
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 How to Marry a Millionaire Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
A remake of 1933's The Greeks Had a Word for Them, as well as a retread of 20th Century-Fox's favorite plotline, How to Marry a Millionaire was the first Hollywood comedy to be lensed in Cinemascope.
Before the opening credits roll in How to Marry a Millionaire, we are treated to a "live" orchestral rendition of Alfred Newman's "Street Scene" overture, conducted by Newman himself.
In addition to its being the first wide-screen comedy, Millionaire was also the first-ever presentation of the weekly NBC series Saturday Night at the Movies, premiering on the small screen on September 23, 1961.
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 Amazon.co.uk: How To Marry A Millionaire [1953]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
"How To Marry A Millionaire" is a typical 20th Century Fox comedy blockbuster of the 1950's.
Many other beautiful women have drifted in and out of film over the years, but in "How To Marry A Millionaire" it should be obvious to anyone that Monroe is the most beautiful of them all, period.
So, all things considered, "How To Marry A Millionaire" is a very entertaining movie and a must see for fans of Monroe, Grable or Bacall.
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For the body of How to Marry a Millionaire, the lion's share of scoring duties fell to Fox workhorse Cyril Mockridge, a veteran composer and arranger responsible for many of the most memorable renditions of Alfred Newman's themes.
Millionaire was in many ways treated as an "instrumental musical" by Newman, Mockridge and the rest of the Fox staff, comprised of indelible arrangements of pop standards of the day ("How About You," "You'll Never Know," "I've Got a Feelin' You're Fooling" and many more) with connective tissue by Mockridge.
This CD of How to Marry a Millionaire features the complete music recorded for the film in stereo including source music and unused cues.
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 DVD.net : How to Marry a Millionaire - DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Of course this is a courting technique that is older than the oldest of professions, and in 1953 it became the subject of the instructional film How to Marry a Millionaire.
Showcasing as it did the spanking new Cinemascope technology, How to Marry a Millionaire views as one long experiment in the framing of scenes for the extra-wide screen.
In terms of audio, How to Marry a Millionaire has had the full treatment from Fox, and sports a spanking new, remastered Dolby Digital 4.0 soundtrack.
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How To Marry A Millionaire / The Seven Year Itch / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Three features: 'How To Marry A Millionaire' follows three women who conspire to create a plan that will help each of them to snare a millionaire husband.
Betty Grable/ Marilyn Monroe - How To Marry A Millionaire [1953]
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 CANOE - Lifewise - LoveThing: How to marry a millionaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
CANOE - Lifewise - LoveThing: How to marry a millionaire
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Each pursuit requires a particular set of skills and specific qualities which are outlined in her book.
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 How to Marry a Millionaire Dvd Vhs UK
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 How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire
How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire is definitely treat!
In the beginning, you can see how very long he has been fighting his own demons.
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 Barnes & Noble.com - How to Marry a Millionaire -- Jean Negulesco - DVD - Wide Screen
The knuckle-headed Grable goes off on an illicit weekend in the mountains with a grouchy married executive (Fred Clark), but falls instead for a comparatively poor--but very handsome--forest ranger (Rory Calhoun).
And Bacall very nearly lands an aging millionaire (William Powell), but has a sudden attack of conscience and opts instead for the supposedly poverty-stricken chap (Cameron Mitchell) who has been pursuing her since reel one.
The 3 best friends are marryed and they love there hosbens and in the first one so now in the second one they should all have babys in the second one.
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 How To Marry A Millionaire Episode Guide - How To Marry A Millionaire Season Episodes - TV.com
Greta says they did it they have got themselves a Millionaire Lumber man coming to the Penthouse and who says money doesn't grow on trees.Mr Doncourt pretends to be his secretary Steve and his secretary Steve pretends to be the Millionaire Mr Doncourt.
Loco brings home a Great dane dog named Victor who's owned by a wealthy millionaire.The girls await the millionaire to come get his dog and when he does he is a little boy.
The Girls take their Average Girlfriend with them to a Millionaire's party and regret it when the average Girlfriend gets the Millionaire.
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 How to Marry a Millionaire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Now released in a restored version of the classic 1953 original, (the first movie to be filmed in CinemaScope), How to Marry a Millionaire was written and produced before the age of women’s lib and bra burning.
She admits that she wants to wed again (for no woman could possibly be happy without a husband), but this time she will seek out someone of means, using her head instead of her heart.
Perhaps not a classic film in the truest sense, How to Marry a Millionaire provides an enjoyable escapist experience.
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 How To Marry A Millionaire
She winds up enamored with and marrying tax cheat and previous owner of their apartment David Wayne, who is equally blind.
Bacall and Powell are all set to be married but at the last moment she can't go through with it.
Would have been nice to hear how the filming went, how certain shots were established and what scenes were cut from the final print.
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Tess was a genius at keeping him in the meetings he needed to attend, and out of the meetings he didn't, but no matter how much he appreciated her talents, he hated the feeling of being managed.
Lex liked how hard he was to ruffle; the only sign he'd ever given of the stress of his job had been that within half a year of his promotion, his hair had turned almost completely gray.
It was easy for Lex to forget on a day-to-day basis, in the middle of the routine of their lives, just how beautiful he was, but like this, with Clark naked and hard and walking towards him, it was impossible to think of anything else.
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