‘Blondes’ and the Fifties

Kathleen Strecker reviews Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for Oregon’s Coast Review, and ponders what this seemingly escapist comedy might reveal about the time in which it was made:

“The film opens with a cabaret number by Monroe and Jane Russell, clad in red sequined getups – and feather-bedecked hats, of course – that by today’s standards would be laughable, but were apparently hotter than hot back then. That’s what intrigues me so much about entertainment from that era: It seems like such a different world. The culture of the 1960s, even though I was born four-fifths of the way through that decade, feels familiar, accessible … anything further back might as well have happened on a different planet.”

 


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