“I’m a storyteller – that’s the chief function of a director. And they’re moving pictures, let’s make ’em move!” Howard Hawks “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (based on the novel by Anita Loos) has been called Hawks’ only female “buddy picture”. Howard Hawks on the set of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” with Marilyn Monroe. Howard Hawks with Dee Hartford, who was to become the third Mrs. Hawks (a brunette), after completing “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”.

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