Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is showing at the Historic Bakersfield Fox Theatre in California on Monday, March 9 at 7 pm, as part of the Cults & Classics series – with costumes encouraged, so prepare to be fabulous!
“The friendship between Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) is one of the most hilariously positive female friendships ever depicted on film. As Shakespeare wrote of the legendary queen of Egypt in Anthony and Cleopatra, so ‘age cannot wither nor custom stale the infinite variety’ of these two little girls from Little Rock. There’s not a single moment in this scintillating 1953 Technicolor adaptation of the stage musical comedy by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields (and based on Loos’ 1925 novel) when these gal pals, or this rightfully deemed classic, wear out their welcome … Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a burgeoning Technicolor cornucopia of treats. The musical numbers are staged with saucy expertise. There’s snappy backstage humour. William Travilla’s sumptuous costume designs … We never doubt that these girls will make it to wherever they want to go and get whatever they want …”
– Hadley Hury, The Flaneur
The Marilyn Report 