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
Sex comedy marriage. In the movies, playboys played by Rock Hudson or Tony Curtis would try to bed marriage-minded women played by Doris Day or Marilyn Monroe, and the central question would seem to be "will she or won't she?", but in the end, the man would fall for the girl, and sometimes agree to marry her. Notable sex comedies in this period would be "Some Like It Hot", "The Apartment", "Pillow Talk", "Irma La Douce", "The Seven Year Itch", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "Lover Come Back". According to McDonald, by 1965, the sexual revolution was under way, so "will she or