That film also revealed to a wide range of viewers the name of a blond captivator of men’s hearts, who would later become a style icon and a standard of sexuality of the 50′s, zasvolivating a title of a legend of the cinema and the cultural phenomenon. We are talking, of course, about Marilyn Monroe. Here she appears in all her glory (indeed, as in her later works), aesthetically striking with perfect facial features and figure, which (if not seemingly unique before the general public became familiar with the most attractive actress) became a fashion model.

But it’s worth admitting that the smiling beauty’s partner in the film, Jane Russell, is not the least bit inferior (if not superior) to her in acting talent and charisma. Such musical numbers with the charming brunette as scenes in court and on board the liner ‘Queen Mary’ where she dances so passionately (for those years away from us) with a group of hyped up Olympic athletes, who to the beat of orchestral melodies are intensely engaged in gymnastics and exercises with various sports equipment, look simply marvelous, because not only reveal her range of professional and creative skills, but equally with Marilyn concentrate the audience’s attention on her. Not for nothing in the sequel to this motion picture called ‘Gentlemen Marry Brunettes’, Jane Russell has received even more screen time than the original film, albeit with the fact that Monroe did not participate in it. Anyway, the author of this text wants to make it clear in this paragraph that he is no less enamored of Jane compared to Marilyn, and maybe the former struck his heart even harder than the more obvious version.

Thus, ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ is certainly an iconic cinematic work with musical elements, unparalleled in revealing the depth of talent of the two dazzling beauties of their (and our) time in the person of Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. The beauty of the girls fascinates, encourages and inspires the male audience, which literally makes them revisit this film which has already become a real classic again and again.

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The protagonist of “42nd Street” is producer Julian Marsh (the last name alone is telling). He is perhaps the most long-suffering character in this picture. He finally finds the perfect production that could make him famous for the rest of his life. However, his doctor finds he has some kind of illness that will prevent him from doing what he loves. So what, he gives it all up? No. He takes on the production. On the very first day, more than a hundred girls come to the stage to get into the musical, to make themselves famous and to make money. But what can you do when there’s a crisis in the country and you desperately need some work? Naturally, not everyone gets in. Only those who have some talent. And then rehearsals begin. Something doesn’t work out, and the director gets nervous about every little thing. Still, it’s hard to compare Warner Baxter’s character to a gangster. He is most likely the antipode of Tony Camonte from Scarface the year before. Julian is responsible for everyone, adventurous, but lacks self-confidence. He’d rather run through a few options than act at random. Somewhere inside himself, he fears that the show might go bust. Still, it did happen. But what did the heroes have to endure for the sake of their triumph? Lots of things. There was room for the modest Sawyer and her “undressed” men, and for jealousy, and for deception. And here’s the big one. The screening of the new brainchild. And it’s impossible not to describe the beauty that happens on stage. It’s the climax of the film.

Decorated skyscrapers, stores, bars. Beautiful girls dancing in costumes that look like future bikinis (perhaps the most romantic attribute of a woman’s closet was first shown in this film). The songs, the cars…there are a lot of them. I don’t know what the scene had to be like to have a dozen autos piled on it…or if the scene itself is one huge set. Either way, Lloyd Bacon and his assistants managed to make a movie within a movie. Then there are the social peripeteia that goes on in life. Someone is sneaking out of a beer house from the police. A man chases his wife around the room, wanting to kill her. All of this depicts the situation in which American society was in those years. The depression years. “Prohibition, family quarrels over lack of money and unemployment…

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If you’re into movies and movie history, ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ is a must-see. Not just because it’s a vivid musical with great musical numbers, but because it’s a vivid film about the history of the film industry facing the arrival of sound cinema in the 1920s.

The plot of the tape is quite simple and naive – a couple of silent film stars suddenly discover that, after the triumph of the first sound film, The Jazz Singer, in 1927, they too need to learn to talk in front of the camera. A seemingly easy task. But in fact not all silent film actors with an exaggerated manner were able to fit into the restrained world of sound cinema. Here are the heroes of ‘Singing in the Rain’, which shone in the world of silent movies, it turns out not know how to act. And the woman and really terrible voice.

At the same time and on the set of a huge change. Strung out and almost desperate director begs the actors not to turn their heads, and speak only in the bush – there is a hidden microphone. And he himself hides in a glass booth, where behind the glass is a movie camera. All of this – a great comedic moments of the film, which, moreover, is quite consistent with reality.

And on the whole, ‘Singing in the Rain’ is a pretty funny light comedy that makes fun of actors, directors, producers, movie fans and the industry as a whole in a kindly way.

The musical and dance numbers, of course, will not seem spectacular enough to today’s viewers. But this is certainly the fault of the technical limitations, but not of the actors – they are just showing master class with their amazing numbers. If you watched, for example, the recent 2016 ‘La La Land’, you can easily see that the modern cinema is much more colorful and spectacular, but the dancing actors do not have even half of the stunning talent that Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds demonstrate.

‘Singin’ in the Rain’ is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. It’s a great excuse to experience an optimistic, beautiful old musical that can immerse you in a bygone era.

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