Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Oct 29, 1955

1h 39m

★ 5.2

See 'em sizzle in the big, buxom, beautiful musical!

Overview

Two Broadway showgirls, who are also sisters, are sick and tired of New York as well as not getting nowhere. Quitting Broadway, the sisters decided to travel to Paris to become famous.

Genres

Music

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

Russ-Field Productions

United Artists

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes Trailers

Cast

Bonnie Jones / Mimi Jones

Jane Russell

Connie Jones / Mitzi Jones

Jeanne Crain

Charlie Biddle / Mrs. Biddle / Mr. Henry Biddle

Alan Young

David Action

Scott Brady

Earl of Wickenware

Guy Middleton

M. Ballard

Eric Pohlmann

Rudy Vallee

Specialty Dancer (uncredited)

Gwen Verdon

Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel Coco's radical ideas. She wants to democratize women's fashion; he wants to redefine musical taste. Coco attends the scandalous first performance of The Rite in a chic white dress. The music and ballet are criticized as too modern, too foreign. Coco is moved but Igor is inconsolable.

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