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 (novel) first film version, which is now lost, was released in 1928 and starred Ruth Taylor and Alice White. Better known is the 1953 film version of the musical, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell. The novel's characters were licensed for use in a daily newspaper comic strip series that ran from April to September 1926. The comic strip was not an adaptation of the novel, but used the novel's characters in new gag situations. Although the writing was credited to Loos, it was presumably ghosted by the artists, Virginia Huget and Phil Cook. The original series was