Gentlemen Prefer Blondes original cast album, Sony CD, 2006.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a smash Broadway musical that launched the career of Carol Channing. The musical was based on the best selling comic novel by Anita Loos, also called Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The musical opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 8, 1949 and closed September 15, 1951, running a total of 740 performances. Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Carol Channing, ca. ... A comic novel is a work of fiction in which the writer seeks to amuse the reader: sometimes with subtlety and as part of a carefully woven narrative, sometimes above all other considerations. ... Anita Loos (April 26, 1889 – August 18, 1981) was an acclaimed American screenwriter, playwright and author. ... Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (book) is a comic novel written by Anita Loos first published in 1925. ... The Ziegfeld Theatre was a Broadway theatre formerly located at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 54th Street in Manhattan, New York City. ...

The musical was produced by Herman Levin and Oliver Smith. Book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos; Music by Jule Styne; Lyrics by Leo Robin. Choreographed by Agnes De Mille. Vocal Direction by Hugh Martin. Categories: Korean War people | People stubs ... Joseph Fields (February 21, 1895 - March 3, 1966) was a Tony Award-winning American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer. ... Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a British born American songwriter. ... Leo Robin (April 6, 1900 - December 29, 1984) was an American composer and songwriter. ... Agnes de Mille in “3 Virgins and a Devil”, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 Agnes George de Mille (September 18, 1905 – October 7, 1993) was an American dancer and choreographer. ... Hugh Martin, born on August 11, 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama is an American theatre and film composer. ...

The cast included:

• Carol Channing as Lorelei Lee
• Yvonne Adair as Dorothy Shaw
• Rex Evans as Sir Francis Beekman
• Anita Alvarez as Gloria Stark
• Eric Brotherson as Henry Spofford
• Jack McCauley as Gus Esmond
• Irving Mitchell as Mr. Esmond, Sr.
• Alice Pearce as Mrs. Ella Spofford
• Reta Shaw as Lady Phyllis Beekman

Carol Channing, ca. ... Pearce as Gladys Kravitz in Bewitched with George Tobias as her husband Abner, (1964). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Songs

Act 1

Act 2

Monroe sings the song surrounded by well-dressed men. ...

Film version

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was filmed in 1953 starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell and went on to become one of the classic films of the 1950's and an essential production to Monroe's legend. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 film adaptation of the 1949 stage musical, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, Taylor Holmes, and Norma Varden in supporting roles. ... Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model and pop icon. ... Jane Russell in 1943. ...

History

Despite being one of the most legendary Broadway musicals, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes has surprisingly only been revived once on Broadway, in 1995 starring KT Sullivan as Lorelei Lee and Karen Prunzik as Dorothy Shaw. It ran for only 24 performances, 16 of those previews.

External links

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes full credits at IBDB