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How to Marry a Millionaire is a 1953 film, directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, and Betty Grable. The first ever picture to be filmed in CinemaScope, it features a sizeable Manhattan apartment that three models rent, in hopes to end up marrying millionaires.

Trivia

On the plane, Pola is reading a book called "Murder By Strangulation" which is how Marilyn Monroe's character met her demise in Niagara
.
This was the first film shown on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies", 23 September1961, the first television program to exclusively broadcast relatively recent theatrical films on US network television. The idea proved so successful that NBC soon followed it up with another series with the identical format, "Monday Night at the Movies", and it wasn't long before the format was taken up by both CBS and ABC.
This is 20th Century Fox first CinemaScope feature, however it wasn't released until after The Robe
( 1953 ).
Lauren Bacall
's character, Schatze, says, "I've always liked older men... Look at that old fellow what's-his-name in The African Queen
( 1951 ). Absolutely crazy about him." She is referring to Bacall's real-life husband, Humphrey Bogart
.
Betty Grable's character makes a pointed reference to Harry James while listening to the radio at the lodge. Grable was once married to James.
One of the first films to have its score recorded in stereo.
This film features approximately 254 shots over 88 minutes of action. Thus on average each shot lasts about 21 seconds. This is quite high, even for 1953.

Award nominations

1954 Academy Award nomination - Best Costume Design, Color (Charles LaMaire, William Travilla)
1954 Writers Guild of America (WGA) nomination - Best Written American Comedy (Nunnally Johnson)
1955 BAFTA nomination - Best Film (USA)

Goofs

Continuity: The flowers change position in the bedroom during the wedding party.
Continuity: In the final scene, the beer mugs fill themselves.
Continuity: 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.
Continuity: When eating hamburgers in the coffee shop, the cigarette in Brookman's left hand changes into a napkin between shots.

Release date

USA - 5 November1953

Sweden - 22 February1954

Germany - 2 April1954

Finland - 21 May1954

Austria - September1954

Denmark - 15 August1955

Filming Locations

20th Century FoxStudios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

36 Sutton Place South, Sutton Place, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

New York City, New York, USA

Sun Valley, Idaho, USA

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