Gentlemen prefer blondes
Based on the novel by Anita Loos, it tells the story of Lorelei and Dorothy, two beautiful cabaret dancers: the first uses her beauty to conquer Gus Esmond, a millionaire who fulfills her every whim; the second wants to find an interesting and handsome match.
Both are invited on a cruise through Paris, a moment that they will take advantage of to seduce the perfect man. However, they are unaware that Gus's father has hired a detective to prove to his son that Lorelei is with him solely out of interest. While the detective does his job, Dorothy and he love each other, which will be affected when they are all blamed for the theft of a diamond crown.
They are Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell while the men are Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Elliott Reid, and George Winslow, all under the command of Howard Hawks. This director accredited a long tour of American cinema since silent times and whose eye was very select when it came to assembling casts; In this case, Monroe, who already had brief appearances in titles like "The Wicked" and "The Asphalt Jungle."
How to catch a millionaire
It meets all the requirements of Hollywood cinema which was beginning to compete with the slow but steady growth of television. In this story, written by Nunnally Johnson -remembered for the adaptation of John Steinbeck's "Vines of Wrath" for John Ford- the axis is set on three women.
In the plot of the film by Jean Negulesco, with Marilyn Monroe, Laureen Bacall and Betty Grable in the central roles of Pola Deveboise, Schatze Paige and Loco Dempsey, they are three friends looking for a rich husband and trying to find him among the wealthiest bachelors in the town, but little by little they realize that love is more important than money, a cast completed by William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, and Cameron Mitchell
River of No Return 1954
The film by Otto Preminger, which announced the new screen format known as CinemaScope and stereophonic sound as a great attraction, premiered in Argentina amid the truce that Peronism proposed to Hollywood after a strong boycott of the local offices of the distributors of Americans for screen quotas for the local cinema. It was in September of that already complex year and a few months after the first Mar del Plata Film Festival that closed that parenthesis.
Matt Calder, played by Robert Mitchum, arrives at a mining camp to take care of his nine-year-old son, Mark, and to thank Kay - the blonde Monroe -, the "saloon" singer, for taking care of him. Father and son go to the farm they bought next to a mighty river but their tranquility is interrupted by the arrival of Kay, accompanied by Weston, a professional player who flees with his horses, leaving them defenseless against the attack of the Indians. The only way out for him is to flee on the raft that, with great difficulty, resists the jolts of the uncontrolled waters.
Mitchum was, according to critics at the time, at the height of his career. Marilyn had the first great opportunity to show off all her potential, that which went far beyond her natural beauty and that singular way of assuming the roles that were assigned to her, whether in comedies -most of the time-, or in dramas, of which he always knew how to get out well.
There's No Business Like Show Business 1954
Once again with the CinemaScope as a visual attraction and the music of Irving Berlin as the background of the plot, the film directed by Walter Lang tells the story of The Donahues, a family of actors who lives dedicated night and day to show business. He goes from stage to stage, delighting the public and there. Amid this multitude of stars, a young 28-year-old Marilyn Monroe appears as Vicky Parker, ready to be applauded both in fiction and in reality in theaters.
The Seven Year Itch 1955
It's August and the heat hits the big city when Richard Sherman, played by Tom Ewell, a typical New Yorker has just been fired from his job. He returns to his house while his wife and children enjoy a vacation on the beach. Temptation sets in when he meets a stunning neighbor who rents an apartment on the top floor and somehow communicates with him. She is so shy and unable -or not- to deceive the absent one, nevertheless smoke comes out of her ears.
