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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953
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Surveillance devices, Athletes, Ocean liners, Fathers and sons, Photographs, Kisses, Weddings, Gold diggers, Wealth, Diamonds

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Cast: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Director: Howard Hawks
Writer: Charles Lederer
Cinematographer: Harry J. Wild
Editor: Hugh S. Fowler
Production Designers: Lyle Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.

Anita Loos, a prolific scenario writer from the silent era, first created the characters from GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953) in a serial published in Harper’s Bazaar (March-August 1925) under the title The Diary of a Hasty Traveler. The material was later adapted into a book and a dramatic play co-authored with her husband John Emerson… Learn more at the AFI Catalog

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