Marilyn’s partnership with Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) features in Jose Gallegos’s list of the 25 Best Female Duos today, over at Taste of Film.
“Lorelei (Marilyn Monroe) and Dorothy (Jane Russell) are two singers who meet gentlemen admirers along their way to Paris. The iconic pairing of Monroe and Russell became an instant classic, as the women sing to a room full of shirtless gymnasts and later boast that ‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.’ Yet beneath their homosocial friendship is a subtext of homosexual desire (many queer theorists and viewers like to believe that Dorothy is Lorelei’s protective butch admirer).”