Watched: 03/14/2025
Format: BluRay
Viewing: Unknown
Director: Howard Hawks
It had been a minute since I'd watched Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), one of those movies they used to play more often on TCM and where I'd just stop and usually watch it from wherever I came in. It's still a favorite.
No doubt the movie's gender politics play badly for The Youth, but in context, this is a movie about two women on either side of the coin - asking whether one pursues money or not when it comes to matrimony and romance. And, in 1953, we are very much still in an era where a marriage is going to make or break the vast majority of women. We're only a handful of decades from women being able to vote, and they still can't have their own credit cards.
The gag, of course, is do you play the men? And, if so, how?