In which 1953 film did Marilyn Monroe play gold-digger Lorelei Lee?
Marilyn Monroe dress, which prompted veteran star Joan Crawford to describe her behavior as "unbecoming an actress and a lady" to the press. While "Niagara" made Monroe a sex symbol and established her "look", her second film of the year, the satirical musical comedy "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", established her screen persona as a "dumb blonde". Based on Anita Loos' bestselling novel and its Broadway version, the film focuses on two "gold-digging" showgirls, Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw, played by Monroe and Jane Russell. The role of Lorelei was originally intended for Betty Grable, who had been 20th Century-Fox's most popular "blonde bombshell"
Gold digging 1930s American cinema the "gold digger" was the type of "femme fatale" that gradually replaced the "vamp". The character type would be featured, for example, in "How to Marry a Millionaire", a 1953 film starring Marilyn Monroe, alongside Schatze Page and Loco Dempsey. In the analysis of rap music it has been theorized that the "gold digger script" is one of a few prevalent sexual scripts present for young African American women. Kanye West's "Gold Digger" references gold digging. Gold digging Gold digging is a type of transactional relationship in which people, especially women, engage in relationships for money rather