How to Marry a Millionaire

The flowers change position in the bedroom during the wedding party.

In the final scene, the beer mugs fill themselves.

The fur wrap that Pola picks up from the bed at the wedding party and drops on the floor is back on to the bed while she and Schatzie are talking.

When eating hamburgers in the coffee shop, the cigarette in Brookman's left hand changes into a napkin between shots.

As the car drives past on the snowy highway en route to the lodge in Maine, you can see where the snow has been removed to facilitate the setting up the camera equipment off to the side of the road.

When Schatze is walking up and down on the roof her shadow isn't matching the shadows on the buildings behind - her shadow falls the opposite way due to the lighting not matching the supposed position of the sun.

One of the three motorcycles that stop Betty Grable and the tycoon on the bridge on their return from skiing change design between when they are seen starting up and when they pull over the car.

When driving back from the lodge on a twisting road, the driver is steering the car.

The steering motions don't match the view from the rear window.

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)A movie with a billionaire's reputation. It has some megastars to say the least (and from three different worlds--Bacall from the Bogart/crime/noir realm, Monroe from all that she already represented by the early 1950s, and Rogers from the age of classic musicals).

"For all the story's predictable, storybook fabrication and the phony back projection grandeur, a sisterly rapport never dims among them while each girl gets busy with her own affair to cinch that grail. Bacall is as per usual with a zippy and matter-of-fact zeal which means business, Schatze has no fallback position after a failed marriage with a poor fellow whereas a chicly speccy Monroe flogs Pola's blind-as-a-bat ditziness to death, a role only she can play with a Teflon shied for backlash then Grable, in her antepenultimate film, is the most adroit player here, bouncy, witty, but is also able to inhabit a love fool with some much needed brio.

I was curious about this series, so I watched a few episodes. It was after all based on the first Cinemascope film of the same title directed by Jean Negulesco.

I'm not going to dig into the script, direction or character development. I'll just stick to things I like about this movie.

Although I liked this film, it didn't keep me too interested. I think perhaps it would have been better to focus on just two lead characters instead of three, similar to "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", as each pairing seemed to have too little time devoted to it.

How To Marry A Millionaire (1953) : Brief Review -A fun film ruled by Women but won by Men at last. How To Marry A Millionaire is not an amazing story but it is genuinely connectable.

The opening prologue is an orchestra performance that has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. I began to wonder if I was watching the wrong movie.

The first half sparkles as the three girls ready their snares, hoping to land a millionaire husband for each. So what, if they have to strip the furnishings from their ritzy apartment in order to pay the rent.

Whew! A cast full of the finest talent and yet this movie is so tedious it is hard to slog through!