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Marilyn Monroe’s Acting Style in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
How Marilyn Monroe Interpreted the Role of Lorelei Lee
This way of playing the scene reveals Monroe’s training as a model. Taught that a certain sort of smile establishes one mood and a different sort [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], another, Monroe makes use of a kind of facial semaphore to convey the complexities of the character she is playing.
Of all the films Monroe starred in during the earlier period of her career – that is, before she studied Method acting in New York – Howard Hawks’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) probably best typifies the Marilyn Monroe persona as audiences would recognize it today. She plays Lorelei Lee, the riches-obsessed ingenue on a quest to marry her friend to the richest man she can find.
Convincing Mr. Esmond: Scene Analysis
The Lorelei she portrays is intelligent, if extraordinarily goal-oriented; there is a childishness to the Lorelei who goes into her cabin on a luxury ship, exclaiming “Look! Round windows!”, but no stupidity. Monroe delivers many of Lorelei’s airheaded lines with a playful air, as though she, Lorelei, is having a genuinely good time getting what she wants out of life. Nor is this Lorelei cunning or malevolent; she is assertive, but ingratiating, and has no intention to hurt anybody.
While not the star of the picture – she shares the spotlight with Jane Russell as the wisecracking friend – her number, “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend”, has so often been imitated as to become iconic [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and is the segment by which the film is remembered. On a purely aesthetic level, the “Marilyn” look is here at its height: a halo of blonde hair, a face with large, childlike features, and an improbable physique all combine to create a woman both charming and alluring.
But by revealing one letter, one nuance of personality, at a time – no one of which accurately represents the whole – Lorelei is able to spell out her personality to Mr. Esmond so simply and logically that he cannot suspect her intentions.
As she explains to Mr. Esmond why a man being rich is like a girl being pretty (“You might not marry a girl just because she’ s pretty, but my goodness, doesn’t it help?”), her expressions alternate: she is the put-upon innocent, then the triumphant woman of the world, then, turning to her fiance, the devoted wife. She slips from role to role effortlessly [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and, when Mr. Esmond is finally convinced, presents him a remarkable concoction of all three: a mischievous glowing smile.
As Monroe portrays her, Lorelei isn’t a posing manipulator, but a fragmenter of her own personality. It’s as though the message she is trying to get across is written, letter by letter, on a series of index cards. To throw them all at once at Mr. Esmond would result in a jumble, an incomprehensible mess.
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Far from coasting on her looks, however, Monroe carries off the role with talent and a tangible intelligence. In a speech at the end of the movie, Lorelei affirms “I can be smart when it’s important, but most men don’t like it”, and Monroe never lets us forget this fact.
Accordingly, she has no pose in her repertoire that is not textbook “pretty”, and this limits Monroe’
These nuances to Monroe’s portrayal of Lorelei are most discernible in the scene above mentioned, wherein she convinces Mr. Esmond, father to her fiancé, Gus, that she is worthy of his son.

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