Film Forum

U.S., 1953
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Starring Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable
Approx. 96 min.

The first CinemaScope comedy, featuring three gold-digging sex symbols of the Golden Age on the loose in New York. Step one: rent the ritziest Park Avenue penthouse you can’t afford. Step two: invite over hot prospects like William Powell, David Wayne, or Cameron Mitchell. Step three: make sure you look like Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, or Betty Grable. Complete with Alfred Newman’s “Street Scene” overture.

Presented with support from The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s and The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film

Reviews

“The ladies’ fashion, all shot in CinemaScope, is to die for, but Bacall’s ballsy performance as the leader of the pack is an added joy.”
– The Times (UK)