Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

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Gentlemen Marry Brunettes is a 1955 musical film made by Russ-Field productions and released by United Artists. It was directed by Richard Sale, produced by the director and Robert Waterfield with Robert Bassler as executive producer, from a screenplay by Mary Loos and Sale, based on a work by Anita Loos, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes.

Anita Loos was the author of the novel and play Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which had been turned into a smash film with Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe two years before. The studio attempted to repeat the formula, with Russell returning but Jeanne Crain stepping in for a presumably otherwise engaged Monroe (both women played new characters). Alan Young (later the owner of TV's Mr. Ed), Scott Brady (brother of Lawrence Tierney), and Rudy Vallee also appear; this film was not as well received as the earlier one.

Anita Loos had entitled her version But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, but the studio dropped the first word from the title for the film.

[edit] External links

• Gentlemen Marry Brunettes at the Internet Movie Database