Jeanne Crain Alan Young, and Rudy Vallee. The production was filmed on location in Paris. The film was based on Anita Loos' novel, a sequel to "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" was popular throughout Europe at the time and was released in France as "A Paris Pour les Quatre" ("To Paris for the Four"), and in Belgium as "Cevieren Te Parijs". Later in the 1950s, Crain, Russell, and another actress formed a short-lived singing and dancing lounge act on the Las Vegas Strip. Crain made the Western comedy "The Second Greatest Sex" (1956), then starred with Glenn Ford, Russ Tamblyn, and
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (musical) closed on April 30, 1995 after 16 previews and 8 performances. A concert staging of the musical was mounted as part of the "Discovering Lost Musicals" series directed and produced by Ian Marshall-Fisher at Barbican Cinema 1 in London in 1997, which featured Louise Gold as Lorelei Lee, Kim Criswell as Dorothy Shaw, and Dilys Laye as Mrs Ella Spofford. The Open Air Theatre, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London, production ran from July 23, 1998 through September 1, 1998, and featured Sara Crowe as Lorelei Lee and Debby Bishop as Dorothy. 42nd Street Moon theatre company, San Francisco, California, presented