Marilyn's third movie of 1953 cast her as a severely myopic golddigger
who walks into walls because "Men aren't attentive to girls who wear
glasses". This is her first CinemaScope feature, and actually only
the second movie to be filmed with the new CinemaScope process (the
first was "The Robe"). Columnists fabricated a feud between Marilyn
and costar Betty Grable, whom she was supplanting at the studio, but
the two got along well on the set. The same cannot be said of Lauren
Bacall, who looked on her with contempt.
Marilyn Monroe as Pola Debevoise
How to Marry a Millionaire released November 1953
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Twentieth Century-Fox
Technicolor
CinemaScope
Marilyn Monroe (Pola Debevoise)
Betty Grable (Loco Dempsey)
Lauren Bacall (Schatze Page)
