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The film stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow, Taylor Holmes and Norma Varden in supporting roles.
They got along well. According to Russell's 1985 autobiography, she called Monroe Blondie and was often the only person on the set who could coax Monroe out of her trailer to begin the day's filming.
We learn that while working on Howard Hawks' superlative Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (which turns 70 years old this weekend), she received a paltry rate of $500 a week, while her comparatively better-known co-45star Jane Russell raked in a sum-total fee in the amount of $200,000.
Yes, Marilyn Monroe did almost all her own singing in the 1953 musical romantic comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
I've seen numerous interviews with Mitchum and he spoke only highly of Marilyn... Understand they were good friends.