But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes director and Bob Waterfield (Russell's husband) with Robert Bassler as executive producer, from a screenplay by Mary Loos and Sale, based on the novel "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" by Anita Loos. Anita Loos was the author of the novel and play "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" which had been turned into a smash film with Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe in 1953. This film was not as well received as the earlier one. Anita Loos had entitled her book But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, but the studio dropped the first word from the title for the film. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes But Gentlemen
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown in color with Dean Martin in his first semi-serious role - which he's done fabulously since - and the publicity alone would have pulled it off. Or we should have had another director...Norman still got his slapstick ending, but it just seemed old fashioned without color. The picture was neither fish nor fowl, but I still liked it.". Despite her honest assessment of the movie, Jane considered "The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown," along with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) as the two favorite films of her career . "Fuzzy Pink Nightgown" bombed when it was released in the fall of 1957 and