As I have been unsatisfied with the current romantic comedy movies available, I decided to watch and oldie. This is another Marilyn Monroe classic in which she plays the same character she always does-the dumb blonde bombshell. Her brunette best friend is played by Jane Russell and as usual is the brains behind the duo. While Marilyn's character always gets them into amusing problems, Russell always has the solution.
The two women are showgirls but the majority of the film takes place on the boat when the set sail for France. A rich and unattractive man has fallen for Marilyn, but she claims to love him to the point where they are on their way to get married. His father absolutely hates the idea of his son marrying a gold digging idiot so he hires a private detective to watch the girls as they set sail to meet the son in France. While Marilyn's character is unapologetically materialistic, Russell searches for true love. As she falls in love with the detective (unknowing his true motives for being on the boat), Marilyn spends her time looking for diamonds to the point where she has an old man give her his wife's diamond tiara.
The best part of the movie is how the two women perfectly compliment and care for each other. Marilyn is always trying to convince Russell to marry rich, while Russell helps her blonde friend gain the approval of her father in law. The movie also features Monroe's famous rendition of Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend song and act. My favorite part of the movie is when Monroe finally confronts her disapproving father-in-law and explains that sure she became interested in the son for the money, but grew to love him. She then explains the reason he wanted her in the first place is for her looks and then he grew to love her. She asks him that if he had a daughter wouldn't he want her to marry a rich man and have all of the fine things in the world? The father's reaction is that he thought she was supposed to be stupid.
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