Fresh
The stars save this 1953 entry, through fruitful collision if not smooth collaboration.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
How to Marry a Millionaire
The Most Glamorous Entertainment Of Your Lifetime in CinemaScope. You See It Without Glasses!
1953 · 1h 36m · Not Rated
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Jean Negulesco
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How to Marry a Millionaire
Overview
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
Director and cast
- Jean Negulesco Director
- Marilyn Monroe as Pola Debevoise
- Lauren Bacall as Schatze Page
- Betty Grable as Loco Dempsey
- David Wayne as Freddie Denmark
- Rory Calhoun as Eben
- Cameron Mitchell as Tom Brookman
- Alexander D'Arcy as J. Stewart Merrill
- Fred Clark as Waldo Brewster
- William Powell as J.D. Hanley
- Percy Helton as Mr. Benton (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
84%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A real standout among the other players is William Powell as the elderly Texas rancher who woos, wins and then gives up Bacall.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
[A] feeble little comedy, which hardly needed a wide screen and which just about gets by on star power.
Adrian Turner, Time Out
Rotten
The substance is still insufficient for the vast spread of screen which CinemaScope throws across the front of the theatre, and the impression it leaves is that of nonsense from a few people in a great big hall.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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