But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes she wanted it to be... Both "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" were viewed by female scholars as celebration bordering on satire. "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" is often considered the weaker of the two, and only works as a companion piece to Loos’s first installment. The film based on the novel, "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" (1955), is very loosely based on Loos’s book. The plot is very different. "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes" is a musical film made by Russ-Field productions, starring Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain, and released by United Artists. The film was directed by Richard Sale, produced by the
Ben Nye Ben Nye Benjamin Emmet "Ben" Nye, Sr. (January 12, 1907 – February 9, 1986) was an American makeup artist for the Hollywood film industry for over four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1980s. He worked on over five hundred 20th Century Fox films both in and out of Hollywood. Including "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947), "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953), "The King and I" (1956), "The Fly" (1958), "Valley of the Dolls" (1967), and "Planet of the Apes" (1968). His brother was actor Carroll Nye, best remembered today as Frank Kennedy, Scarlett O'Hara's second