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How To Marry A Millionaire (1953)
Released By: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment   Rating: Not Rated   In Theaters: N/A
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Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Jean Negulesco
Language: English
Official Website: N/A
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Betty Grable, Cameron Mitchell, David Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun
Published ID: 2995
UPC: 024543014270,
Plot: 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. Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe play three models of modest means who rent an expensive Manhattan penthouse apartment and pose as women of wealth. It's all part of a scheme hatched by Bacall to snare rich husbands for herself and her roommates. The near-sighted Monroe is wooed by an international playboy, but ends up settling for the tax-dodging fugitive (David Wayne) who owns the girls' apartment. 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. It turns out that she has actually landed one of the richest men in New York--and upon learning this, our three luscious heroines faint dead away. 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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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How to Marry a Millionaire
Added 4/14/2009

This is not only Marilyn's best ever, but also Betty's and Lauren's. It is for people who love New York, and comedy at it's most glamorous.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
'Keep the change, Mac.'
Added 2/3/2009

Three models (Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall) pool their resources to rent an expensive penthouse apartment in New York, each girl hoping to catch a wealthy husband...

Cameron Mitchell helps Betty Grable with groceries one morning and meets and falls in love with Bacall... But she rejects him, thinking he is a 'gas pump jockey.'

The girls are nearly broke when Grable introduces them to an oil tycoon, a widower (William Powell) who becomes interested in Bacall... Grable takes a trip with wealthy and married Fred Clark, under the impression that they are going to a convention in Maine... Once at his lodge, she realizes they will be alone and is set to return to New York when she suddenly felt sick... A forest ranger named Rory Calhoun comes into her life, and they fall in love...

Marilyn leaves by plane to meet her one-eyed playboy Alex D'Arcy in Atlantic City, but because she refuses to wear glasses in public to correct her nearsightedness, she gets on the wrong plane... On board she meets David Wayne, the owner of their penthouse apartment, who is on his way to Kansas City to find his tax accountant because of whom he is in trouble with the revenue department...

Bacall, left alone and without money, agrees to marry the oilman Powell...

"How to be a Millionaire" was the second CinemaScope film ever made, the first being "The Robe." The film marked David Wayne's last movie appearance with Marilyn... He made four pictures with her, more than any other actor...

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
Hilarious
Added 7/30/2008

These women will go to great lengths to land a rich husband, even if that means selling all they have, living on hot dogs, and going to high society parties to stake out the millionaires. The performances from all three of these actresses are amazing! You can't help but laugh at the silly things they say and do. I am a HUGE Marilyn Monroe fan, and it is one of my favorite movies with her in it, even though I wish she had a slightly bigger part. But hey-it's difficult to see more of her when they have to split the screen time between three. I highly recommend this movie!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
How to Marry a Millionaire
Added 5/31/2008

A wonderful classic from the 1950s about three women with the perfect plan for future happiness. To marry millionaires. What they don't count on is in their search for a rich husband is finding true love and having to decide which they would rather marry for love or money.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
Unfunny Comedy
Added 5/26/2008

HTMAM is a mediocrity.

No song-and-dance-numbers. No entertaining dialogue.

Characters which I didn't care much about.

0 out of 4 people found this helpful.
How to Marry a Millionaire
Added 4/14/2009

This is not only Marilyn's best ever, but also Betty's and Lauren's. It is for people who love New York, and comedy at it's most glamorous.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
'Keep the change, Mac.'
Added 2/3/2009

Three models (Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall) pool their resources to rent an expensive penthouse apartment in New York, each girl hoping to catch a wealthy husband...

Cameron Mitchell helps Betty Grable with groceries one morning and meets and falls in love with Bacall... But she rejects him, thinking he is a 'gas pump jockey.'

The girls are nearly broke when Grable introduces them to an oil tycoon, a widower (William Powell) who becomes interested in Bacall... Grable takes a trip with wealthy and married Fred Clark, under the impression that they are going to a convention in Maine... Once at his lodge, she realizes they will be alone and is set to return to New York when she suddenly felt sick... A forest ranger named Rory Calhoun comes into her life, and they fall in love...

Marilyn leaves by plane to meet her one-eyed playboy Alex D'Arcy in Atlantic City, but because she refuses to wear glasses in public to correct her nearsightedness, she gets on the wrong plane... On board she meets David Wayne, the owner of their penthouse apartment, who is on his way to Kansas City to find his tax accountant because of whom he is in trouble with the revenue department...

Bacall, left alone and without money, agrees to marry the oilman Powell...

"How to be a Millionaire" was the second CinemaScope film ever made, the first being "The Robe." The film marked David Wayne's last movie appearance with Marilyn... He made four pictures with her, more than any other actor...

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.
Hilarious
Added 7/30/2008

These women will go to great lengths to land a rich husband, even if that means selling all they have, living on hot dogs, and going to high society parties to stake out the millionaires. The performances from all three of these actresses are amazing! You can't help but laugh at the silly things they say and do. I am a HUGE Marilyn Monroe fan, and it is one of my favorite movies with her in it, even though I wish she had a slightly bigger part. But hey-it's difficult to see more of her when they have to split the screen time between three. I highly recommend this movie!
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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