"It should come as no surprise that when Genre Master Howard Hawks turned his hand to a musical comedy, he succeeded in producing one of the very best - arguably, the best. Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are featured as the golddigger heroines, and although Monroe is ostensibly the star, Russell (as a much more prototypically Hawksian woman) steals the movie effortlessly. Hawks sticks fairly close to the Broadway original, but (as usual) transmutes it into a vehicle for his own thematic material by showing Dorothy and Lorelei as professional women - women who play their roles-as-women with as much commitment (and satisfaction) as any sheriff or mail flier plays his. The musical numbers are marvelous, the girls and boys are pretty, and the Scope frame is full of movement." --Michael Goodwin. "Stylistically Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is as extreme as it is thematically. The shock tactics of the opening credits and number with their blinding reds and purples set a tone which the film rigorously adheres to throughout. The color remains pitched at a level which is virtually a parody of Darryl Zanuck's well-known penchant for bright colors.... Underlying the screaming colors, the equally spectacular costumes of Travilla, and the wonderfully droll, pointed and exuberant musical numbers is, characteristically, Hawks' no-nonsense approach to film making...." --Robert Smith, Glastonbury Film Society