Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (films, 20th Century, Fox, actors)

[dizzybint]

I loved this film with Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell and while reading some trivia about it I found this. Who d have thought Jane got so much more than Marilyn in that movie..

(10 years after making "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,") Marilyn Monroe recalls the lack of respect studio execs had for her, but makes a point of mentioning co-star, Jane Russell: "I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell, she was the brunette in it and I was the blond. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She by the way, was quite wonderful to me."

[Clarallel]

I don't much like it - it's awfully crude, really - but I was recently watching it on TV, and have to admit I enjoy the amusing late comment where she's making her case for marrying for money: "Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?"

[dizzybint]

Remember the part when Jane Russell gets knocked into the swimming pool, it wasnt supposed to happen but it got left in.... before it happens you see Jane with her real life brother...Also Marilyns shocking pink dress wasnt the original idea, it was black velvet strips draped around her body with diamonds around it.. but thought to risque and turned down..Its also been said that Marilyn wore the same gold lame dress as Ginger Rogers, but it doesnt look the same to me https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/333759022357700507/

[DontH8Me]

Back then actors were given a contact by a studio, and were even brokered out to other studios like a commodity. She was also paid her $500 a week when she wasn't working, for what it's worth. She had no choice but to accept her contract rate because GPB was a 20th Century Fox production. I believe Russell was under contract with RKO at the time, and originally discovered by Howard Hughes. These unfair exploitative practices are no longer allowed.

[FluidFreedom]

Originally Posted by DontH8Me

Back then actors were given a contact by a studio, and were even brokered out to other studios like a commodity. She was also paid her $500 a week when she wasn't working, for what it's worth. She had no choice but to accept her contract rate because GPB was a 20th Century Fox production. I believe Russell was under contract with RKO at the time, and originally discovered by Howard Hughes. These unfair exploitative practices are no longer allowed.

It's interesting how much things have changed when it comes to how studios and actors deal with each other. I found it quite interesting to read that studios would have bidding wars over specific actors and actresses to be in their films. I also read that when an actress got lent out to another studio, that studio was responsible for feeding, housing, driving that particular actress acround until the "contract" was up. I even heard that studios use to have housing on the lots for their talent.

[Jkgourmet]

Originally Posted by DontH8Me

Back then actors were given a contact by a studio, and were even brokered out to other studios like a commodity. She was also paid her $500 a week when she wasn't working, for what it's worth. She had no choice but to accept her contract rate because GPB was a 20th Century Fox production. I believe Russell was under contract with RKO at the time, and originally discovered by Howard Hughes. These unfair exploitative practices are no longer allowed.

Sure they are: Natalie Portman: Ashton Kutcher was paid three times more for

[DontH8Me]

Originally Posted by Jkgourmet

Sure they are: Natalie Portman: Ashton Kutcher was paid three times more for

I was referring to studios 'owning' the talent. Income inequality is never going away, I'm getting more and more chummy with that realization.