Review of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) by Daniel K — 27 Sep 2012

4: It's a bit hard to believe that this, along with films like The Shop Around The Corner, is a predecessor to the romantic comedies of today. Granted, there are sophisticated, endearing, hilarious, and inventive romantic comedies created today, but this is the exception and few of those exceptions rank among the masterpieces of Hollywood closer to its heyday.

This doesn't have the Lubitsch touch, but it is thoroughly a Grey Fox production. It seems that Hawks could work in any genre under the sun, which was undoubtedly a large factor in the spawning the adoration of the Cahiers du cinema crowd.

I'm not a huge Monroe fan by any means, nor can this be said of Russell, but both perform admirably here and are backed up by a solid cast and a thoroughly compelling and clever story. It is light fluff, but of the higher order (not quite the highest).