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    How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

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    How to Marry a Millionaire teamed Marilyn Monroe with Lauren Bacall and the great Betty Grable as three gorgeous gold-digging models who rent an expensive playgirl penthouse in Sutton Place, New York with a plan to trap three millionaires to pay the rent.

    They have to eat hamburgers and sell all their furniture so they can pay the rent, but they do all meet rich men – and only one of them with a wife . . .

    ‘Loco’ Dempsey (Grable) is the funniest of the ladies as she pursues skittish tycoon Waldo Brewster (Fred Clark) to a ski lodge in Maine, naively thinking she’s on her way to an Elks convention.

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    Schatzi Page (Bacall) is the caustic “brain” who plunges after rich industrialist J.D. Hanley (William Powell), but is a bit too cold and biting for her own good. Pola (Marilyn) is a near-sighted confection constantly walking into walls without her glasses who sets her (short) sights on J. Stewart Merrill (Alex D’Arcy).

    But, of course, each of the girls meets a poor, better matched young man. Loco meets Forest Ranger, Eben (Rory Calhoun) on her winter weekend in Maine, Pola meanders into Freddie Denmark (David Wayne) on a plane ride to Kansas City, and Tom Brookman (Cameron Mitchell) camps on Schatzi’s doorsteps (he actually has zillions but she doesn’t know it).

    Pola
    Marilyn Monroe
    ‘Loco’ Dempsey

    Betty Grable
    Schatzi Page
    Lauren Bacall
    Freddie Denmark
    David Wayne
    Eben
    Rory Calhoun
    Tom Brookman
    Cameron Mitchell
    Waldo Brewster
    Fred Clark
    J.D. Hanley
    William Powell
    J. Stewart Merrill
    Alexander D’arcy
    Mike, the elevator man
    George Dunn
    Benton
    Percy Helton
    Mr Otis
    Tudor Owen
    Antoine
    Maurice Marsac
    Bennett
    Rankin Mansfield
    Tony
    Jan Arvan
    Emir
    George Saurel
    Mrs Salem
    Hope Landin

    Director
    Jean Negulesco

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