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
Madonna (entertainer) and I saw myself in them ... my girlishness, my knowingness and my innocence." Her "Material Girl" music video recreated Monroe's look in the song "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", from the film "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953). She studied the screwball comedies of the 1930s, particularly those of Lombard, in preparation for the film "Who's That Girl". The video for "Express Yourself" (1989) was inspired by Fritz Lang's silent film "Metropolis" (1927). The video for "Vogue" recreated the style of Hollywood glamour photographs, in particular those by Horst P. Horst, and imitated the poses of Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard,