Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joan Diener, Doretts Morrow, Henry Calvin, and Glenn Burris. For the benefit of theatre-goers deprived of critleal manna, the CRIMSON reprints a review of the musical as it appeared during the Boston try-out in late October. Our critic can not, of course, evaluate subscquent changes in the script or quality of the production...
...Marilyn Monroe, cast as three little lovebirds in search of a gilded cage, decide that the best way to catch a millionaire is to set a trap. They set one, accordingly, in a sublet apartment on Manhattan's Sutton Place-a happy hunting ground for mink, the script says-and bait it with everything they've got, which is mostly cheesecake. Millionaires apparently like the bait as well as most fellows, and pretty soon they are wolfing away at the door. In the end, of course, the filthy lucre loses out to nice, clean sex, and everybody goes...
Despite the stereophonic cooing of CinemaScope's newer, wider Marilyn Monroe, How to Marry a Millionaire ends up just another routine Techni-color movie. Substituting torsos for originality, Hollywood has swelled the female form up to unprecedented size without attempting to increase the script's humor proportionately...
...wide-lens camera, How To Marry puts CinemaScope to work in everyday surroundings. Freed from painted sets, the medium projects a new illusion of space by concentrating on familiar scenes like the George Washington Bridge and the New York skyline. Had the film concentrated as much on script lines as on skylines and necklines, How To Marry a Millionaire would have been a more profitable gold hunt...
...post-script on this subject was the author's statement that "from the findings of our study we may venture a guess that six percent of the male student drinkers and at most one percent of the woman manifest positive signs of being potential problem drinkers...