How To Marry a Millionaire (1953)
a film by Jean Negulesco
What is it?
A likable romantic comedy featuring three great actresses Betty Grable, Mariliyn Monroe and Lauren Bacall as charming gold-diggers in New York. This is a light hearted story in the spirit of Bus Stop and Pillow Talk where real love is the champion over ambition and social condition.
Memorable scene
Lauren Bacall's character, Schatze Page is trying to convince William Powell that their age difference doesn't matter to her and says: "Loot at Roosvelt, look at Churchill, look at old fella what's his name in The African Queen". The old fella is Humphrey Bogart, Bacall's husband at the time.
Favourite quote
"Most women use more brains picking a horse in the third at Belmont than they do picking a husband" - Schatze Page (Lauren Bacall).
Why is it worth watching this movie?
How To Marry a Millionaire is the kind of Hollywood production that will never age. It features a combination of smart script and charming actresses to bring to life the rose-colored and optimistic vision of what has become the romantic comedy genre. This movie is as a valid and entertaining after almost 60 years from its release and its story of independent women in New York is surely the cast from which stories like Sex and the City came from. I can see a remake of this movie coming into theaters really soon.
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