Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928 film)

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Herman Mankiewicz (titles)
Based onGentlemen Prefer Blondes
by Anita Loos
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
StarringRuth Taylor
Alice White
CinematographyHarold Rosson
Edited byJane Loring
William Shea
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • January 18, 1928 (1928-01-18)
Running time
75 minutes 7 reels (6,871 ft)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1928 American silent comedy film directed by Mal St. Clair, co-written by Anita Loos based on her 1925 novel, and released by Paramount Pictures. No copies are known to exist, and it is now considered to be a lost film.[1][2][3][4] The Broadway version Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starring Carol Channing as Lorelei Lee was mounted in 1949. It was remade into the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Jane Russell as Dorothy Shaw and Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee in 1953.

Plot

Blonde Lorelei and her brunette friend Dorothy search for rich husbands.[5]

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