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Positive Reviews
27
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.9
/5
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3.0
Parents need to know that Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a classic musical comedy full of dated stereotypes.
Common Sense Media
4.5
A strong play to the sophisticated dialog and situations is given by Howard Hawks direction and he maintains the racy air that brings the musical off ..
Variety
4.0
The divine is simply everywhere else.Nit picking auteurists may snipe about the filmmakers so called lack of involvementHe didnt even direct the music ..
Time Out
3.0
isnt your thing, its worth the ticket to see Monroes iconic and flawlessly choreographed performance of Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend: a perfect fo ..
Time Out
4.4
This is no mere cheesecake spectacle served up for a horny male audience.
3.0
This 1953 Howard Hawks film, a lightweight but agreeable adaptation of Anita Looss acid novel and play, is mainly notable for cementing Marilyn Monroe ..
Telegraph
5.0
Theres more warmth in fondly bemused looks at Monroe, whose friendship is a front row ticket to the best show in town.
Village Voice
2.0
Audiences and critics alike adored it, and it became one of Hawks biggest commercial hits.
Sover
4.0
Certainly, BLONDES proves Russells knockout instinct for deadpan sarcasm, rare among pin up girls.
Tv Guide
5.0
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 4 Stars (out of 4) Tweet Pinups By Jeffrey M. Anderson My personal favorite of Marilyn Monroes films is Howard Hawks G ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.0
Howard Hawkss grand, brassy 1953 musical about two girls from Little RockMarilyn Monroe and Jane Russellgone gold digging in Paris.
Chicago Reader
4.0
Monroe shines in the superbly photographed and choreographed production numbers, most notably Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend.
Radio Times
4.0
A sparkling new print of Howard Hawkss 1953 musical comedy, which paired Monroe and Russell at their spangled, curvaceous, lipsticky best.
Independent
2.0
Howard Hawks joyous musical comedy of 1953 is the film that catapulted Marilyn Monroe to major stardom and iconic status as sex symbol.
Emanuellevy
5.0
Lorelei has a fiercely idealistic commitment to marrying rich so that the pure concept of love is not sullied by money worries; Dorothy pragmatically ..
Guardian
4.0
But, there are plenty of other delights in this frothy, thoroughly enjoyable frolic, largely due to the seductive performances, amusing script and eas ..
4.0
Hawkss whiplash wicked comic set pieces display his classic themes of gender swaps and repressed desires, and Monroes inflections and expressions have ..
New Yorker
3.0
But, for all the three dimensional attractions of its two leading ladies, this is a rather flat cinemusical.
Time
3.8
If I had to pick a single movie that best captures the charm of Marilyn Monroe, it would have to be this one.
Three Movie Buffs
2.0
A sideline exchange of conversation, tossed off early in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the new Twentieth Century Fox musical with Jane Russell and Marilyn ..
Ny Times
5.0
...confirms that Marilyn Monroe should always be thought of as a comedian first.
Larsen On Film
4.0
An unusually perfect marriage of star, scenario, dialogue, director, and music.
Antagony & Ecstasy
3.0
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4.5
It may drag a little once they hit Paris, but when it sparkles, which it does more often than not, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is simply one of the most ..
Film 4
4.5
I cycled home somewhat overwhelmed by the music and colour and sexiness of the film Id just unexpectedly seen. Ive seen it many times since and, with ..
The Australian
4.0
The wit and the humour are all there.See if you can spot West Side Story star George Chakiris as one of the dancers.
Sky
4.5
There isnt a second when you dont feel like both women have control over their situations.
Bust
4.0
They helped make Gentlemen Prefer Blondes one of the most charming, entertaining and colourful musicals of the 1950s.
Daily Record
4.5
Shakespeares drama itself suffers from a long anticlimax, but most of its celebrated merits are soundly accounted for in this tasteful, intelligent fi ..
Maclean's Magazine
5.0
There is not one single moment when these characters, or this rightful classic, wear out their welcome.
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