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How to Marry a Millionaire

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Schatze Page, Loco Dempsey and Pola Debevoise (Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe) are three women on a mission: They all want to marry a millionaire. To accomplish this task, they move into a fancy New York City apartment and begin courting the city's elite. They have no problem meeting rich men, but unfortunately most of them turn out to be creeps or cons. Eventually they must decide: Is a life of luxury more important to them than finding true love?
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Kate Muir The Times (UK) 06/04/2015
4/5
In How to Marry a Millionaire, directed by John Negulesco, there is the triple delight of Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall in one movie -- and one apartment. Go to Full Review Dave Kehr Chicago Reader 08/29/2014
The stars save this 1953 entry, through fruitful collision if not smooth collaboration. Go to Full Review Variety Staff Variety 03/26/2009
A real standout among the other players is William Powell as the elderly Texas rancher who woos, wins and then gives up Bacall. Go to Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins 09/16/2024
5/10
Nothing much is demanded from the performers, but some of the dialogue is quite humorous – along with some fitting repetition (and related segues) that aids the love stories that stick. Go to Full Review Rachel Wagner Rachel's Reviews (YouTube) 11/06/2023
An underrated screwball comedy classic Go to Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews 06/14/2023
3/4
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Amy G @Amytheshort 1d This is the movie that gives marilyn monroe the dumb blonde stigma. Irs a good movie. See more Tamara K 09/03/2024 Another bad film from the 1950's which assumes the best a woman can do in life is marry a rich man. See more Leaburn O 11/16/2023 Another Monroe film about marrying a rich man. The early 50s seemed to be obsessed with this issue. Not great but some banter along the way. Watched on a DVD that hung around the house for an age. See more Alec B 11/10/2023 Madcap antics are promised, and what we get is a dull and largely forgettable romantic comedy. To waste Monroe, Grable, Bacall and Powell in this manner is unforgivable. See more CodyZamboni Z 03/23/2023 Amusing comedy, bright performances, Marilyn Monroe is absolutely stunningly beautiful in this movie. See more david f 10/08/2022 This comedy about 3 models who move into a temporary apartment in New York City in the Fifties with a plan to find Millionaire husbands is a funny entertainment. Marilyn Monroe shows she is a particularly gifted comedienne with her part of a near-sighted woman too reluctant to wear her glasses for fear of a man rejecting her over her looks. This leads to increasingly funny disasters-first when she walks into a wall in her own apartment, next when she's spotted reading a hardcover book upside down, and finally when-I shouldn't spoil it but I must-she boards a plane for Atlantic City, only to learn, halfway to her destination, that she got on a plan to Kansas City. Very funny movie with some great scenery of New York City, its skylines and river views, at its finest. See more Read all reviews
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Jean Negulesco

Director

Marilyn Monroe

Pola Debevoise

Lauren Bacall

Schatze Page

Betty Grable

Loco Dempsey

David Wayne

Freddie Denmark

Cameron Mitchell

Tom Brookman

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Movie Info

Synopsis Schatze Page, Loco Dempsey and Pola Debevoise (Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe) are three women on a mission: They all want to marry a millionaire. To accomplish this task, they move into a fancy New York City apartment and begin courting the city's elite. They have no problem meeting rich men, but unfortunately most of them turn out to be creeps or cons. Eventually they must decide: Is a life of luxury more important to them than finding true love?
Director
Jean Negulesco
Producer
Nunnally Johnson
Screenwriter
Nunnally Johnson
Production Co
Twentieth Century Fox
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 5, 1953, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 1, 2015
Runtime
1h 35m
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