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How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

★ 6.8Approved95 minDirector: Jean Negulesco

1953 film by Jean Negulesco

How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed by Jean Negulesco and written and produced by Nunnally Johnson. The screenplay was based on the plays The Greeks Had a Word for It (1930) by Zoe Akins and Loco (1946) by Dale Eunson and Katherine Albert.

It stars Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall as three fashionable Manhattan models, along with William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, and Cameron Mitchell as their wealthy marks.

Produced and distributed by 20th Century-Fox, How to Marry a Millionaire was the studio's first film to be shot in the new CinemaScope wide-screen sound process, although it was the second CinemaScope film released by Fox after the biblical epic film The Robe (also 1953). It was also the first color and CinemaScope film ever shown on prime-time network television (though panned-and-scanned) when it was presented as the first film on NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies on September 23, 1961.

The soundtrack to How to Marry a Millionaire was released on CD by Film Score Monthly on March 15, 2001.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is How to Marry a Millionaire about?
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) — Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and Loco set up in an exclusive apartment with a plan....tired of cheap men and a lack of money, they intend to use all their talents to trap and marry three millionaires. The trouble is that it's not so easy to tell the rich men from the hucks
Is How to Marry a Millionaire based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is How to Marry a Millionaire scary?
Content rating: Approved. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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