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Marilyn Monroe - The Best Of Marilyn : Gentlemen Prefer Blondes / Seven Year Itch / How To Marry A Millionaire / The Final Days Documentary (4 Disc Box Set)

starring: Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, William Powell, James Coburn, Jane Russell
directed by: Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder, Jean Negulesco

Release Date June 19, 2006
This is a good boxset for a new Marilyn fan or one who wants only a few of her films, for they are her most famous ones (although I think it should include 'Some Like it Hot' too.) All of them are pretty short (all under an hour forty-five) but they're all very good.

How to Marry a Millionaire - 1953. Marilyn plays Pola Debevoise, a short-sighted dumb blonde who wants to, well, marry a millionaire, like her friends Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall (who out of the three is the principal character). The film is light and funny, and 'creamy'!

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 1953. Marilyn plays gold-digging Lorelei Lee in this musical. The film is probably best known for the song 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend' - excellent ... Read More:

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How To Marry A Millionaire [1953]

starring: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, William Powell
directed by: Jean Negulesco

Release Date May 22, 2006
The title of the movie says it all; it is not exactly the movie a modern day feminist would like to see; then again it stars some of greatest women of Hollywood. The main attraction of the movie are; Schatze Page (Lauren Bacall), Pola Debevoise (Marilyn Monroe), and Loco Dempsey (Betty Grable). This romantic comedy is set in Manhattan about three women who team up with an elaborate scheme to lure wealthy men with an intention to marry them. They rent a penthouse, sell the furniture that doesn't belong to them, and use the funds to support themselves. Schatze is the team leader who is smart and all brains; other two are ditsy blondes. Schatze has her eyes set on an elderly, charming and wealthy widower J.D. Hanley (William Powell), at the same ... Read More:

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The Dolly Sisters [1945]

starring: Betty Grable, John Payne, June Haver
directed by: Irving Cummings

Release Date February 26, 2007
The title of the movie says it all; it is not exactly the movie a modern day feminist would like to see; then again it stars some of greatest women of Hollywood. The main attraction of the movie are; Schatze Page (Lauren Bacall), Pola Debevoise (Marilyn Monroe), and Loco Dempsey (Betty Grable). This romantic comedy is set in Manhattan about three women who team up with an elaborate scheme to lure wealthy men with an intention to marry them. They rent a penthouse, sell the furniture that doesn't belong to them, and use the funds to support themselves. Schatze is the team leader who is smart and all brains; other two are ditsy blondes. Schatze has her eyes set on an elderly, charming and wealthy widower J.D. Hanley (William Powell), at the same ... Read More:

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Down Argentine Way [1940]

starring: Betty Grable, Don Ameche, Carmen Miranda, Charlotte Greenwood, J. Carrol Naish
directed by: Irving Cummings

Release Date April 17, 2006
She,s back , BETTY GRABLE the top moneymaking star in the history of motion pictures. back on DVD "Down Argentine Way" made in 1940 in gorgeous Technicolor show cases this Hollywood dynamo, with her Million Dollar Legs well displayed with support from Carmen Miranda, Charllotte Greenwood and Don Ameche, this DVD is the restoration edition, 20th Century fox had the best Technicolor photography in the 1940,s and this Grable starrer takes us into the realms of "Argentine" horse race community al'a Fox,s take on these matters, this DDVD with its sister DVD released in America "Pin Up - Girl" another Technicolor confection Betty Grable in Technicolor is a beauty to behold.

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My Blue Heaven [1950]

starring: Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor, Jane Wyatt
directed by: Henry Koster

Release Date February 26, 2007
She,s back , BETTY GRABLE the top moneymaking star in the history of motion pictures. back on DVD "Down Argentine Way" made in 1940 in gorgeous Technicolor show cases this Hollywood dynamo, with her Million Dollar Legs well displayed with support from Carmen Miranda, Charllotte Greenwood and Don Ameche, this DVD is the restoration edition, 20th Century fox had the best Technicolor photography in the 1940,s and this Grable starrer takes us into the realms of "Argentine" horse race community al'a Fox,s take on these matters, this DDVD with its sister DVD released in America "Pin Up - Girl" another Technicolor confection Betty Grable in Technicolor is a beauty to behold.

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The Pin Up Girl [1944]

starring: Betty Grable, Martha Raye, John Harvey
directed by: Bruce Humberstone

Release Date February 26, 2007
She,s back , BETTY GRABLE the top moneymaking star in the history of motion pictures. back on DVD "Down Argentine Way" made in 1940 in gorgeous Technicolor show cases this Hollywood dynamo, with her Million Dollar Legs well displayed with support from Carmen Miranda, Charllotte Greenwood and Don Ameche, this DVD is the restoration edition, 20th Century fox had the best Technicolor photography in the 1940,s and this Grable starrer takes us into the realms of "Argentine" horse race community al'a Fox,s take on these matters, this DDVD with its sister DVD released in America "Pin Up - Girl" another Technicolor confection Betty Grable in Technicolor is a beauty to behold.

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How To Marry A Millionaire / Seven Year Itch / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

starring: Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, Evelyn Keyes, Sonny Tufts
directed by: Jean Negulesco, Billy Wilder, Howard Hawks

Release Date September 19, 2005
Three of Marilyn's biggest hits in this package. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), is a light musical comedy with some witty lines and catchy tunes. Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend is a joy from start to finish and the highlight of the movie. Marilyn looks gorgeous as Lorelei Lee and Jane Russell is perfect as her partner in crime. It's a great film with Marilyn showing her musical talents and getting great reviews. She won Photoplay magazines Best Actress of 1953 for her part in this film.
How To Marry A Millionaire (1953), This was Marilyn's most successful movie. She was now the world's top actress at the box office. Teaming up with Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable, this was her first film in Cinemascope. A Classy comedy set in New York.
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A Yank In The RAF [1941]

starring: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner, Donald Stuart
directed by: Henry King

Release Date August 01, 2005
This film, based on the short story 'Eagle Squadron,' penned by Fox Boss Darryl Zanuck, was one of the earliest films to alert the American people to the peril that Britain was facing. Ty Power is, as ever, perfect as the somewhat dubious Tim Baker, a commercial pilot who joins the RAF just to get Grable (and who can blame him?). However, there is another man with his eyes on Grable - Power's commanding Officer!

The casting is perfect, and the film integrates actual combat footage with the story (as well as one of the most gratuitous leg shots I've ever seen). Betty Grable sings as well, which makes it excellent.

Ty Power was supposed to die at the end, but the War Office wouldn't let him, as they thought that might suggest ... Read More:

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Follow The Fleet [1936]

starring: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott, Harriet Hilliard, Astrid Allwyn
directed by: Mark Sandrich

Release Date April 04, 2005
The jauntiness of several of Irving Berlin's songs in this film is counteracted by the romance of 'Let's Face the Music and Dance.' Although Torville and Dean were good in this music, nobody does it like Fred and Ginger. They also perform the brilliant tap routine 'I'm Putting all my Eggs in one Basket', which features Astaire playing the piano. Fred does two numbers on board a naval ship, 'We Saw the Sea' and 'I'd Rather Lead a Band', both of them performed to perfection. There's a cute monkey and the decision to not let the boy get the girl at the end of the plot makes a novel contrast to so many of the earlier Astaire-Rogers outings. Innovative.

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Hollywood Song And Dance - The Musical Years

starring: John Wayne, Al Jolson, Peggy Lee, Bob Hope, Betty Grable
directed by: Roy Selfe

Release Date January 26, 2004
The jauntiness of several of Irving Berlin's songs in this film is counteracted by the romance of 'Let's Face the Music and Dance.' Although Torville and Dean were good in this music, nobody does it like Fred and Ginger. They also perform the brilliant tap routine 'I'm Putting all my Eggs in one Basket', which features Astaire playing the piano. Fred does two numbers on board a naval ship, 'We Saw the Sea' and 'I'd Rather Lead a Band', both of them performed to perfection. There's a cute monkey and the decision to not let the boy get the girl at the end of the plot makes a novel contrast to so many of the earlier Astaire-Rogers outings. Innovative.