Seriously this was entertainment in the 50's???

MM never appeared in a film called Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. That's a song she sang in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. I'm assuming that is the film you saw.

As for the rest of your rant, it would be somewhat appropriate and even understandable had either of these films been made in 2013. You're basically bitching about the theme of both films being immoral according to the standards of today. That's moronic as both films were made during a time when most people accepted the idea that women were only interested in getting hitched and suitably taken care of. The morals and acceptable standards of living OF THE TIME are always reflected in entertainment. Looking at such works with a modern eye and ideals is silly because of course the work is almost always going to contain something that is mot considered appropriate today. It's like bitching about the use of blackface in The Jazz Singer - it is rightly considered vile and hateful now but it was acceptable then.

I'm also not sure what films you really watched as you couldn't even get the title of one of them correct, but neither film showed any of the character having sex. That means none of the characters had sex which makes your slut comment nonsensical. That word along with "whore" seems to be the go to insult that certain morons use when they want to label a woman in a derogatory manner. You guys really need to look up the meaning of those words because you're all using them wrong. Get a thesaurus.

What movies of today do you find morally upstanding? I mean my god movies declined with time because everything just became if that movie met this movie type of thinking with no original ideas. All be it that How to Marry a Millionaire and Gentleman Prefer Blondes were originated on the stage.

You actually went into a Marilyn Monroe not thinking she would be playing a bomb shell of some sorts??? She is the biggest sex symbol who ever lived!

Also watch any older movie heck watch one from 2001 and you will think the acting is not as good. Acting methods and what we think is talent change constantly. At the time those movies were made all actors were like that. If Gone with the Wind had been made today and the over acting was done in it people would never have watched it.

If you don't have 'some' intelligence you can't understand an historic time period..
This movie made nearly 60 yrs ago.. during the Eisenhower years is a world long gone.. i was there.. it was great.. as were the 60's.. maybe it's just because I was young then.

I sleep now..

Said the person who is a basically an Ashton Kutcher fangirl. Kutcher probably holds the record for making some of the worst movies in the last 10 years. Thanks for letting us know your pedigree, missy.

Well for one, it's a comedy. It's supposed to be a little ridiculous.

Two, the women WEREN'T portrayed that way. Schatze (sp?) was quite intelligent, actually.
The other two women, Loco and Pola, weren't very shallow or only cared about a guys' wallet. They were just following what Schatze told them to do.
Schatze was jaded because of her ex-husband, so she decided to marry for love instead of money to avoid going through that again. After she met Bookman, of course, she eventually realized that she was wrong about all men.
In the end they all made a wise decision to marry the men they loved, even though one was broke, one was presumably poor, and one was a fugitive (but not a criminal).
So, I don't agree with your statement, to be honest.


- Jeremiah 29:11 -

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From what you say, nearly EVERY film made before, what. . .1966? must seem hopelessly disgusting and loaded with bad acting. what films from this era do you think are good?

You think this film portrays women with "no morals"??!? Have you been out there at all? It's a freakin' jungle. The women in this film have maybe different beliefs, needs, desires from YOUR set of beliefs, needs, desires, but I assure you that compared with reality, they are nuns.

Well, I think that this film is very charming.

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JimHutton (1934-79) and ElleryQueen

There wasn't much a woman could do to have a decent life at the time. Women's jobs paid very little because few opportunities existed for a single working woman besides office work, teacher, librarian, nurse or sales clerk.