How to Marry a Millionaire: Difference between revisions

Partially inspired by the much earlier ''[[The Greeks Had a Word for Them]]''.

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* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Pola. Unfortunately for her, she believes very strongly that "[[The Glasses Gotta Go|Men aren't attentive to girls who wear glasses]]," which for {{spoiler|Freddie Denmark}} isn't true.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Schatze, though she doesn't defrost completely.

** Loco thinks skiing on the water is the normal way, skiing on snow is weird.

* [[Fainting]]: The big reveal at the ending has all the women faint.

* [[Gold Digger]]: The entire premise.

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Driving back to [[New York City]] from his would-be tryst with Loco in Maine, drives a circuitous route to the west side of the Hudson River where nobody knows him. All the while he tells Loco how his intellect will keep his wife from knowing that he wasn't really on a business trip. {{spoiler|1=As they cross the George Washington Bridge, they are stopped so that a swarm of press photographers can take their picture for being the [[Umpteenth Customer|five-millionth car]] to cross the bridge.}}

** At the hunting lodge, Loco (Betty Grable) hears a [[Big Band]] on the radio and identifies it as Harry James's (her then-husband). Waldo asks her how she knows its Harry James's band. She replies that she knows Harry James, and that that's Harry James. {{spoiler|In what could count as a [[Crossover Punchline]], the announcer identifies the band as belonging to another bandleader.}}

** Schatze ([[Lauren Bacall]]) tells J.D. that she's always liked older men, like [[Humphrey Bogart|what's-his-name]] in ''[[The African Queen]]''.

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Several furs worn, and even the gold digging tips mention the mink department at Bergdorf's as a good place to find rich men.

 

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[[Category:Films of the 1950s]]

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