Robert Osborne Intro - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - (Original Trailer)

Gentlemen prefer Marilyn Monroe preferring diamonds in her most famous musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) directed by Howard Hawks.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Squeezing A Goat

Dorothy (Jane Russell) catches Ernie (Elliott Reid) taking snaps of Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) in private conversation with "Piggy" (Charles Coburn), the girls then plotting what to do, on the ship to Paris, in Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Diamonds Are A Girls's Best Friend

Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei performing the famous number, by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, in the ocean liner lounge, costume by Travilla, set design by Lyle Wheeler, choreography by Jack Cole, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Anyone Here For Love

Arguably more provocative than any of co-star Marilyn Monroe's numbers, Jane Russell as Dorothy at the ship's pool with the "Olympic Team," tune by Hoagy Carmichael and Harold Adamson, dance direction by Jack Cole, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953.