How to Marry a Millionaire

I totally get the Well It's Not Great, but Frankly It's Not That Bad. (It's a flighty, diverting entertainment with some chuckles and that period candy-coated opulence.) As the very first 'Scope picture, one can tell they are quite literally making up widescreen framing and blocking as the film progresses. But what made widescreen stay? Lang said widescreen was only good for two things: snakes and funerals. What he didn't account for was Monroe reclining across the whole Technicolor frame.

The first movie to be shot in Cinemascope doesn't really utilize the frame, except during an interminable orhestral overture. (So this is what audiences had to put up with instead of advertisements in the 50s?) It's verrry fifties, in its humor and social politics, and only mildly amusing. Were it not for the Monroe fetishists, I doubt it would've been seen much today.

I found this to be dated romantic comedy that brings almost nothing to the table for modern audiences.All three of the beautiful ladies in this film deliver there lines pretty well but there's almost no chemistry between them.The mutiple plot threads never really seem to gel together and the ending is pretty dumb if you think about it.

Charming, fun and highly stylized.

Baby loves her Bogie :')

Completely humourless "comedy".

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Apparently, directing and screenwriting age as poorly as comedy does given the large number of static long-shots here that suggest the director thought his goal was to make film feel like a play; and the script is as lazy and contrived as they come. One apparently inconvenient character is tossed away completely never to return w/ only a sentence of explanation, while another accepts rejection at the altar with a sanguine wisdom and equanimity that should immediately qualify him for sainthood.

Slight, bland romantic comedy certainly doesn't survive on its stodgy and overdrawn screenplay; chief joy is Bacall, Grable and Monroe, especially the all-too-brief sequences they spend together. Monroe is especially good displaying her deftness for physical comedy. Debut of Cinemascope and stereo sound, showcased in a twee but delightful overture, makes this a somewhat essential historical curio, though Negulesco seems to struggle with the new-fangled wide frame at his disposal.

Average comedy and average story. Typical popcorn movie. Lauren Bacall is great as always.

Cute, I like when Marilyn wears glasses like that is going to change her

A fun comedy that had me chuckling a couple of times. The romance angles didn't feel natural but the actors were all game plus I always enjoy one of my favorite actors on screen even if William Powell had little more than a cameo.

A sugary fluffy candy that ends on a 'its good for your health' note. Average film that spikes at certain points in terms of writing, acting, comedy.. Nothing great. Passable, forgettable movie.

At first, Monroe's effervescent sensuality and Bacall's no-nonsense confidence play well opposite each other. However, it soon becomes apparent that this is a story of very little substance, with no mystique or surprises, and the predictability of having its three leads follow identical journeys. Betty Grable doesn't add much. Maybe this would've worked better as a two-hander like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. There are a few small laughs in here but most of the scenes are pretty boring.

A murderer's row of talent that really elevate this film. A 90-minute film which has what feels like a 20-minute overture to start the film. It's a film that was charming enough for its run, but there's nothing memorable here. Well, I guess one woman does dream of a smoking hot dog. That's pretty memorable.

I like how Monroe with glasses is her downfall in the movie

pretty average comedy... great to watch the beauty of Bacall and Monroe, thats it...

The kind of story Billy Wilder would make a scandalous sex comedy of, or perhaps Douglas Sirk would turn into a subversive melodrama. But as it stands just a generic, by-the-Hollywood-book, terribly unfunny rom-com. Marilyn Monroe is charming, and it boasts fashionable couture delivered in ultra widescreen Technicolor, but it all amounts to little more than fluff.

The movie opens with a four- or five-minute orchestral scene; who knew that would be the most suspenseful part? It's pretty dull for a comedy, and far too slight to be a social commentary.

Mostly for Monroe completists, but apparently this was the first film that was shot in Cinemascope.

First movie shot on CinemaScope is oddly not some big time epic (although The Robe was first to be released), but a typical 50's fluff about three gold diggers on the mission. Film opens with a (very) long shot of orchestra playing some boring tune, and somewhere along the way we get to see pointless fashion show. Talk about filler! Inferior on every aspect to very similar Gentlemen Prefer Blondes released same year, also with Marilyn Monroe.

Fluffy comedy of it's time, very lightweight, would like a bit more chemistry between the 3 leading ladies especially Bacall and Monroe,(Grable is a bit unnecessary.) Nothing particularly memorable.

At the time this film came out, Lauren Bacall was the established star of the 40's, Betty Grable was the leggy pinup of the 40's, & Marilyn Monroe was the up and coming 50's pinup. Now all the Monroe fetishists have made the other 2 actresses as inferior attractions & that's unfair. Enjoy this film for the period piece it is, the Sex & The City of the early 50's: fast fashionable females seeking men in NYC, rich men preferred unless, horror, they fall in love.

More like a show with a collection of sketches than a film with a plot.

Utter fluff, but sometimes that's what you want. Not sure what the extended sequence at the start with the orchestra is for. You have to laugh at the idea that glasses would put anybody off Marilyn Monroe.