About to start livetweeting GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953) dir. by Howard Hawks. Follow along with this thread, folks. #TCMParty

I get a weird twinge seeing the 20th Century Fox logo now. #TCMParty

I love love love the red sequined dresses. The costume designer on the film was Travilla. #TCMParty

I love Marilyn's voice. #TCMParty

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Background info on GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, a title with a long history. #TCMParty

I would wear the fuck out of Marilyn Monroe's slate gray dress with the leopard print! that hat! those jewels! #TCMParty

What really makes this film for me is the friendship between Dorothy and Lorelei. They're both true broads but very different women --- one bawdy and rough hewn on the outside, the other may seem like a dumb blonde but she's shrewd in her own way. #TCMParty

This is definitely a film where the men are fucking inconsequential. It's all about these dames. #TCMParty

Omg at Marilyn bouncing on the bed and distracting this poor man. #TCMParty

The songs kept from the original show include "We're Just Two Little Girls from Little Rock" (changed from "I'm Just A Little Girl from Little Rock", "Bye Bye Baby" which is playing now, and the incandescent, long living "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend". #TCMParty

Reading Todd McCarthy's bio of Howard Hawks he categorizes the director as along for the ride of making the film. Hawks insisted upon not directing the musical numbers, which make up about 40% of the film. That was handled by ace choreographer Jack Cole. #TCMParty

This makes the film a curio of sorts in Hawks filmography. #TCMParty

What I would do with Jane Russell's checked and mustard yellow coat. It's gorgeous! #TCMParty

I share Dorothy's vivid interest in men. #TCMParty

This whole musical sequence with these clearly gay dudes (come on, it ain't subtext) wildly uninterested in Dorothy is a work of beauty. I just like seeing bodies in ecstatic motion. #TCMParty

Jane Russell is a babe and a half. #TCMParty

I mean. Come on. I love this. #TCMParty

"Doesn't anyone want to play?!" #TCMParty

Lorelei is a woman who knows her power. Can't fault her that. #TCMParty

Charles Coburn reportedly said about working on GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, "Work? This is work? This is sheer, unadulterated joy." #TCMParty

Elliott Reed as Malone in no way, shape, or form lives up to what Jane Russell is putting down. #TCMParty

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell June 26, 1953 at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

DAMN. #TCMParty

The glamour! We don't get any glamour like this anymore in American film and I'm hungry for it. #TCMParty

Malone can shove it. He needs to leave Lorelei alone! "Nobody talks about Lorelei but me." That's right, Dorothy. #TCMParty

This film is imperfect due to the casting of the dudes who don't hold a candle to what Marilyn and Jane are doing. But it is so perfect to watch tonight. A technicolor gem. #TCMParty

Marilyn's pouting and shifting gaze (sometimes wide-eyed with wonder, other times sly with cunning) is a marvel to watch. #TCMParty

When your girl just got herself in one hell of a pickle. #TCMParty

Lorelei thinking she can squeeze through that window --- Oh, lord! #TCMParty

If you could recast Malone and Gus in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES what actors do you think could match the energy of Marilyn and Jane? #TCMParty

I can't get over how hot Jane Russell looks in this gray bejeweled gown. #TCMParty

Jane Russell provides the film its genuine emotion and longing beneath her bawdy exterior. #TCMParty

I am screaming at these pictures of Lorelei and "Piggy" lol #TCMParty

I'm currently drinking mezcal and about to light up. How y'all doing? #TCMParty

Screw Malone's bitch ass. He sucks. Dorothy deserves better. And only a fool thinks Lorelei is stupid. #TCMParty

Also, why would you think a girl would be okay with you trying to destroy her friend? #TCMParty

Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell bonded on the making of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES. Hawks was unable to communicate with Marilyn and she really relied on Jane through the shoot. #TCMParty

Jane Russell later said, "I liked Marilyn Monroe very much, but she wasn't playing straight with Hawks and that annoyed the hell out of him." I think it was more rooted in her anxiety than anything else. #TCMParty