How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) on Netflix
Approved19531h 35mComedyDramaRomance
Schatze Page, Loco Dempsey and Pola Debevoise are Manhattan models who share a penthouse and a plan: each means to marry a millionaire. Spotting the rich ones is not easy.
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Plot summary
Three models in Manhattan, Schatze Page, Loco Dempsey and Pola Debevoise, rent a Sutton Place penthouse from Freddie Denmark, who lives in Europe to avoid the Internal Revenue Service, and use it to meet the city's wealthy men, each of the three meaning to marry a millionaire. Loco brings Tom Brookman along on the day they move in; he had bought her groceries when she had no pocketbook with her. Tom is drawn to Schatze, who turns him away and sets her sights on J.D. Hanley, a rich widower. Schatze keeps refusing Tom while she courts J.D., going out with him yet telling him after each date that she does not want to see him again. Pola is nearsighted and will not wear her glasses in front of men. Loco meets Walter Brewster, a married businessman.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
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- It was the first color and CinemaScope film ever shown on prime-time network television, though panned-and-scanned, when it was presented as the first film on NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies on September 23, 1961.
- 20th Century-Fox started production on The Robe before How to Marry a Millionaire, and although the latter was completed first, the studio chose The Robe as its first CinemaScope picture in late 1953 because it felt the family-friendly film would attract a larger audience to its new widescreen process.
- The theatrical version begins with a nearly six-minute overture of Newman's symphonic piece Street Scene, written in the style of George Gershwin and played on screen by an 80-piece studio orchestra. Newman wrote the piece for the 1931 film Street Scene, which featured his first complete film score.
- The score for How to Marry a Millionaire, composed and directed by Alfred Newman with incidental music by Cyril Mockridge and orchestration by Edward B. Powell, was one of the first ever recorded for film in stereo.
- In 2000, 20th Century Fox Television produced a made-for-TV remake, How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale, which reversed the sex roles and had three men looking to marry wealthy women, starring John Stamos, Joshua Malina and Shemar Moore.
- In 2007, Nicole Kidman bought the rights to How to Marry a Millionaire under her production company Blossom Films, intending to produce and possibly star in a remake.
- In 1957 the film was adapted into a sitcom of the same name starring Barbara Eden, Merry Anders and Lori Nelson, with Lisa Gaye as Nelson's later replacement, and it aired in syndication for two seasons.
