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  2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film) - Wikipedia

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    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and written by Charles Lederer. The film is based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name , which in turn is based on the 1925 novel of the same name by Anita Loos .

  3. Material Girl - Wikipedia

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    The video pays homage to Marilyn Monroe's performance of the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, with the mimicked scenes interspersed with scenes of a Hollywood director trying to win the heart of an actress, played by Madonna herself. Discovering that, contrary to her song, the young woman is ...

  4. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend - Wikipedia

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    American actress and singer Marilyn Monroe performed the song in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.Monroe's character, Lorelei Lee, has been followed on a transatlantic ocean liner by a detective hired by her fiancé's father, who wants assurance that she is not marrying purely for money.

  5. The Marilyn Monroe Homage in His Oscars Performance was ... - AOL

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    Referencing Monroe’s “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” performance in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gosling, 43, donned a hot pink suit while surrounded by Kens in black tuxedos on the stairs.

  6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling 1925 novel of the same name by Loos. The story involves an American woman's voyage to Paris to perform in a nightclub.

  7. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady [a] (1925) is a comic novel written by American author Anita Loos. The story follows the dalliances of a young blonde gold-digger and flapper named Lorelei Lee during "the bathtub-gin era of American history."

  8. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Wikipedia

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    Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a 1928 silent film adaptation of the novel, presumed lost, starring Ruth Taylor; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1949 stage musical based on the novel, starring Carol Channing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a 1953 film adaptation of the stage musical, starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe

  9. Tommy Noonan - Wikipedia

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    Tommy Noonan (born Thomas Patrick Noone; [1] April 29, 1921 – April 24, 1968) was a comedy genre film performer, screenwriter and producer. He acted in a number of high-profile films as well as B movies from the 1940s through the 1960s; he is best known for his supporting performances as Gus Esmond, wealthy fiancé of Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe), in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and as ...