Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 27, 1953

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (20th Century-Fox) is apparently predicated on the theory that if half the moviegoing population prefers Marilyn Monroe and half prefers Jane Russell, then just about everybody will be devastated by a picture that features both. There is, in fact, a danger that some impressionable moviegoers, unable to make up their minds which of the stars they prefer, may go quietly hysterical, like laboratory mice caught between two morsels of cheese.

But, for all the three-dimensional attractions of its two leading ladies, this is a rather flat cinemusical. This version adds flashy...

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