Perhaps the best number in the show is Lorelei's fight song, Diamonds are a Girl's best friend. She almost convinces you that they are.

| Mar 9, 2023

Marilyn and Jane do very well with a couple of duets.

| Mar 8, 2023

The Monroe-Russell combination smashes over the comedy in no uncertain terms.

| Mar 8, 2023

Together the gals [Monroe and Russel] are quite a team, and the movie quite a picture.

| Mar 8, 2023

Fine midsummer entertainment.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 8, 2023

If you are seeing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for the first time, it will probably please through its lavishness, and decorative qualities.

| Mar 8, 2023

It's a fine Technicolor spectacle, but that's about all.

| Mar 8, 2023

It is difficult to believe that it has its roots in a conception of vast wit and irony.

| Mar 8, 2023

Personally, I would rather read a railway guide than sit through it again.

| Mar 7, 2023

This production is enriched with lavishness and Technicolor and everything to make it glittering for the eye.

| Mar 7, 2023

The film... has some good lines and songs and, in its brash, overblown way, is not bad fun.

| Mar 7, 2023

The film may be easily viewed, and easily is the word, either as a form of drama or as a piece of erotic anthropology.

| Mar 7, 2023

It has gaiety, it has a loud and vulgar gusto, and the songs are put over with a flourish of showmanship.

| Mar 7, 2023

Monroe sparkles like the diamonds she worships.

| Aug 4, 2022

I cycled home somewhat overwhelmed by the music and colour and sexiness of the film I'd just unexpectedly seen. I've seen it many times since and, with all its flaws, I love every minute of it.

| Apr 4, 2020

Howard Hawks adds sly sexual insinuation to the blatantly sexual antics of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in this scintillating 1953 adaptation of the stage musical based on Anita Loos's novel.

| Jan 25, 2016

For all the three-dimensional attractions of its two leading ladies, this is a rather flat cinemusical.

| Jan 26, 2011

You won't find a more elegant take on '50s va-va-voom vulgarity or a more joyous paean to the cheesecake self-empowerment of two little girls from Little Rock.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 4, 2010

There's more warmth in [Russell's] fondly bemused looks at Monroe, whose friendship is a front-row ticket to the best show in town.

| Aug 3, 2010

If there's a single film that could shatter Laura Mulvey's theory of the "male gaze" it's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 1, 2010