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Marilyn Monroe: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
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Marilyn Monroe's modeling career took off a lot quicker than her movie career. She started out in bit parts. She won a small part in the movie Love Happy, a Marx Brothers movie in which she debuted her very sexy walk. She made a dozen of B-movies in which she played secondary roles as a dumb blonde. It wasn't until 1952 that Marilyn's career soared. It started with the song and dance movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; shortly after How to Marry A Millionaire was made and released.
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In 1951, Marilyn got a fairly sizable role in Love Nest (1951). The public was now getting to know her and liked what it saw. She had an intoxicating quality of volcanic sexuality wrapped in an aura of almost childlike innocence. In 1952, Marilyn appeared in Don't Bother to Knock (1952), in which she played a somewhat mentally unbalanced babysitter. Critics didn't particularly care for her work in this picture, but she made a much more favorable impression later in the year in Monkey Business (1952), where she was seen for the first time as a platinum blonde, a look that became her trademark. The next year she appeared in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) as Lorelei Lee.
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In 1950 20th Century-Fox signed Monroe to another contract, and over the next few years she appeared in a series of small parts in films that began to gain her increased attention. Notable among these were Asphalt Jungle (1950) and All About Eve (1950). Monroe ... appeared in Love Nest (1951), Clash By Night (1952), and Monkey Business (1952; with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers) and had her first lead role in Don’t Bother to Knock (1952), as a psychotic babysitter. By 1953 she was appearing as a star in such films as Niagara, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (as Lorelei Lee).
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Over the following months, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire cemented Monroe's status as an A-list actress, and she became one of the world's biggest movie stars. The lavish Technicolor comedy films established Monroe's "dumb blonde" on-screen persona.[16]
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