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Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

1955, Movie, NR, 97 mins

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: Review

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Sexy Russell and pert Crain are sibling Broadway showgirls. Fed up with stagedoor Johnnies pestering them, they move to Paris to appear in musical productions. In doing so, the sisters are emulating the careers of their mother and aunt, who were the rage in the 1920s. These American flappers are seen in flashback, again played by Russell and Crain. Brady, their agent, creates publicity for the girls, along with his rather bumbling aide, Young, who is stagestruck and, unknown to anyone, a multimillionaire. Vallee, playing his crooning self, and Middleton, as a wealthy earl, had both wooed the 1920s girls and pick up where they left off with their modern counterparts, although the girls' hearts eventually go to Brady and Young. The story is tired, but the song-and-dance numbers are lively, with Russell and Crain showing lots of leg and cleavage. Aside from the shimmy-and-shake routines, which seem to be offered more as men's smoker entertainment than as a standard musical, the production is just above average. Enhancing the film are the exotic Paris and Riviera settings and stunning costumes by Travilla and Christian Dior. Brady's vocals are dubbed by Robert Farnom; Anita Ellis dubs Crain's vocals. Songs include: "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (Herbert Spencer, Earle Hagen), "You're Driving Me Crazy" (Walter Donaldson), "Have You Met Miss Jones?" "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart), "Miss Annabelle Lee" (Sidney Clare, Lew Pollack), "I Wanna Be Loved by You" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby), "Ain't Misbehavin" (Andy Razaf, Fats Waller). This is the follow-up to 1953's GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES. leave a comment
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