Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film) is too, a lack of grasp in Howard Hawks' handling, which is scrappy and uninventive." On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 98% based on 40 reviews, with an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Anchored by Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell's sparkling magnetism, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" is a delightfully entertaining 1950s musical." German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder declared it one of the ten best films ever made. Monroe and Russell were accorded the honor of putting their hand and foot prints in cement in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese
Emmaline Henry in her teens. She went to Hollywood in the early 1950s and found her way into the choruses of several musicals. Producers began noticing, however, that her comic skills were superior to her singing. She toured in musicals like "Top Banana," and later appeared in the film version of the show. She succeeded Carol Channing in the play "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Henry made her television debut in a 1955 episode of the ZIV production, "I Led Three Lives". This was followed by appearances in another ZIV TV show, "Highway Patrol". She appeared on "The Red Skelton Show" in 1961 and,