How to Marry a Millionaire is showing at the Siskel Film Centre on Monday, October 5 at 6:00 pm, as part of a ‘25 for 25‘ series marking a quarter century since the venue opened in State Street, Chicago. (The 1953 movie was previously shown as part of a 2006 retrospective, Merry Marilyn.)
“In this glamorous romantic comedy, the charms of a trio of Hollywood’s most notoriously statuesque stars were calculated to be a match for Fox’s recently introduced widescreen CinemaScope process. The story is pure escapism, and what an escape it is, into the penthouse lair of three gold-digger models trolling Manhattan for millionaire husbands. As myopic Pola, too vain to wear much-needed glasses, Marilyn Monroe gives dumb blondes a good name with her slyly winsome appeal and drop-dead comic timing.”
