Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

The Seven Year Itch
$14.98
Yes it's Marilyn in full swing. She and Tom Ewell really hit a home run!

How To Marry A Millionaire
$14.98
This is not only Marilyn's best ever, but also Betty's and Lauren's. It is for people who love New York, and comedy at it's most glamorous.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -and- But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady
$15.00
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes conjures up images of Marilyn Monroe, golddiggers, blonde jokes, but the reality of Anita Loos' Lorelei Lee is ever so much richer than the stereotype. Lorelei is no dumb blonde. An unabashed golddigger, certainly, she gives value in return, for she knows what the gentlemen want--to shower her with presents, of course. When they seem on the verge of wanting more, she knows how to escape without ruffling feathers. She adheres to the adage enunciated by her maid, "Leave them while you're looking good." Like that other Lee, Gypsy Rose, she leaves them wanting more.

Loos, in her "Biography of a Book," included in this volume, reports that George Santayana considered GPB the best book of philosophy written by an American. What philosophy? Lorelei's might be summed up in the title of a philosophical book, Smile, Smile, Smile, presented to her by an admirer. Resourceful, and smiling, Lorelei turns her trial for attempted murder into a ticket to Hollywood, turns aside a threatened lawsuit over alienation of affection by enchanting the wife's lawyers, charms her once-reproving, future mother-in-law by appealing to her vanity and plying her with champaign. Fate keeps on happening to her, as she says, but she always works it to her advantage. Not through connivance, but by finding a break in the clouds to let warm sunshine infuse the opposition. Win them over with warmth.

Loos wins us over with the humor in Lorelei and the wit of her friend, Dorothy, that still lives today because it derives from the human condition, the same now as then. Lorelei leaves us with this bit of Zen, "everything always turns out for the best." Everything is as it should be.

Some Like It Hot
$14.98
Classic old comedy film in the late 1950's by Billy Wilder starring Marilyn Monroe taking on cross-dressing & gender roles when such things weren't really done. They probably got away with it because it was so funny & because of the film's fast pace. It holds up very well today & is still considered one of the great comedy films of all time. A must to have.