Talk:Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film)

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Previous versions[edit]

This article is primarily about the musical starring Marilyn Monroe, so the inclusion of all the previous versions of this film seemed out of place. Ideally each of these previous versions should have its own entry. Until then I have created a subsection so that the article flows better. CClio333 19:21, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Technicolor[edit]

This movie examplifies the use of the Technicolor process in the 20s and the 30s, especially in the cabaret scene with marilyn dressed in pink, but is it wikiworth ? Can anyone provide more info about color effects in this movie ?

Thanks. King mike 05:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Silent Film[edit]

"The silent movie was released in 1928, starring Ruth Taylor, Alice White, Ford Sterling, Holmes Herbert and Mack Swain, and Loos also wrote the subtitles."

Was the film subtitled, or intertitled, like most silent films? --68.41.122.213 19:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The silent version of the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, directed by Malcolm St. Clair and co-written by Anita Loos, was released in 1928. No copies are known to exist; it is presumed lost.^[1] Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 05:55, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Thompson, Frank T. (March 1996). Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared. Carol Publishing Corporation. pp. 12–18. ISBN 978-0806516042.

Images[edit]

It looks like the copyright to this film was never renewed, so it'd be good to decorate the article with some images, as appropriate. ShadowHalo 18:57, 28 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright?[edit]

This film is listed (in the article) as being in the public domain, but I can't find any evidence that it is. It appears that the *soundtrack* may be. Does anyone have a reliable source for the claim that the movie is? 69.108.204.228 (talk) 03:30, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I (same author as above, IP may vary) spent an hour or so looking into the copyright status, and found sites like imdb listing it as copyright 1953 by 20th Century Fox. I checked Amazon, and could find no DVD or VHS tape of it, new or used, which was not made by Fox.

What seems to have happened is that the soundtrack from the Broadway play, released by Columbia Records, went into the public domain, and someone garbled that. The only page which I could find that claimed the movie was PD and cited any authority, cited us. They also cited imdb, which contradicts us. http://www.publicdomainmotionpictures.com/content/view/111/26/

With that in mind, I'm yanking the public domain category tag. If anyone can find any sort of authority for the statement, I'd be delighted to be reverted. I'd love to download a copy, if I thought I could do so legally. 69.110.235.152 (talk) 07:05, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Reception[edit]

At the time of its release, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was both a critical and commercial success, with Monroe receiving the best reviews of her career. -this should have references Xb2u7Zjzc32 (talk) 05:58, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New Article Image Suggestion[edit]

I'd like to suggest a better, cleaner version of the film's poster - the other is very low quality and not of high color at all. How about this one (http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/143843.1020.A.jpg) instead?

Dorothy Shaw98 (talk) 23:40, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

job?[edit]

I've watched this movie many times and there was nothing that said the women went to France because of a job. They only took the job in Paris after Gus cancelled the letter of credit. Had he not cancelled the letter, they wouldn't have needed to work. What's the source about going to France because of a job? 71.163.117.143 (talk) 17:40, 27 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, and the article was incorrect. I have amended it accordingly. RolandR (talk) 22:51, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Differences from stage version[edit]

The article on the original novel says "In contrast to the Broadway musical, the 1953 film had to conform to moralistic standards set by the Motion Picture Production Code and consequently eschewed 1920s mores in order to appease film censors who deemed any authentic cinematic interpretation of the Jazz Age to be impermissible."

What are the differences between the musical and the film ? -- Beardo (talk) 01:58, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Thompson, Frank T. (March 1996). Lost Films: Important Movies That Disappeared. Carol Publishing Corporation. pp. 12–18. ISBN 978-0806516042.

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