How to Marry a Millionaire

film by Negulesco [1953]

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How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco. The film stars Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, and Betty Grable as three women who scheme to find wealthy husbands. Shot in CinemaScope, the movie follows their varying degrees of success in their matchmaking endeavors. Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, was a prominent actress who also starred in films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Seven Year Itch.12

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Jean Negulesco
Millionaire and Three Coins
…biggest hit in years with How to Marry a Millionaire. The comedy, which was shot in CinemaScope, centres on three women (Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, and Betty Grable) who scheme to land wealthy husbands, with varying degrees of success. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) was also a hit, with…
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…biggest hit in years with How to Marry a Millionaire. The comedy, which was shot in CinemaScope, centres on three women (Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, and Betty Grable) who scheme to land wealthy husbands, with varying degrees of success. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) was also a hit, with…
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Nunnally Johnson
…of the Kingdom (1944), and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). During the 1950s he started to direct as well as to write and produced The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), The Three Faces of Eve (1957), and The Angel Wore Red (1960). His last script was for…
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…of the Kingdom (1944), and How to Marry a Millionaire (1953). During the 1950s he started to direct as well as to write and produced The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), The Three Faces of Eve (1957), and The Angel Wore Red (1960). His last script was for…
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Marilyn Monroe
Stardom
…in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), and There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954), her fame grew steadily and spread throughout the world, and she became the object of unprecedented popular adulation. In 1954 she married baseball star Joe DiMaggio, and the attendant publicity was…
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…in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), and There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954), her fame grew steadily and spread throughout the world, and she became the object of unprecedented popular adulation. In 1954 she married baseball star Joe DiMaggio, and the attendant publicity was…
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