Let's Make Love (1960)
In one of Marilyn Monroe’s last movies, she transitioned to the silly ’60s. Even if you love Marilyn, you’ve got to admit this movie is pretty stinky. I’ve read over a dozen biographies and used to get a Marilyn themed calendar every year in high school, and I felt pretty sad watching her in this movie. She’d gained so much weight it was obvious the director and editor kept trying to cut to closeups and dress her in slimming black so the audience wouldn’t think she was past her prime. However, in her closeups, she looked as distracted as she did in Some Like It Hot, and the new white blonde shade of her hair made her look old and tired.
In addition to the loss of her looks and charm, she plays perhaps the most bimbo-ish character of her career. The plot itself is cute, and could easily be redone, but with Yves Montand as the leading man and a destructive leading lady, the movie falls flat on its face. Yves plays a millionaire who finds out he’s so disliked by everyone he’s about to be made fun of in a Broadway play. He storms off to the theater intending to shut it down, but instead everyone thinks he’s an actor auditioning, and since he looks so much like “the real guy”, he gets cast in the play. It sounds pretty cute, and when he takes acting lessons from Bing Crosby, Milton Berle, and Gene Kelly, you can tell the sequences could have been funny, but Yves has such terrible comic timing, and his command over the English language is so poor, he just can’t pull it off. Marilyn plays an idiotic actress who gets played by Yves as he woos her pretending to be a starving artist. Since everyone knows Marilyn longed to be taken seriously as an actress, while simultaneously not possessing the chops to handle meaty roles, it’s just sad to see her in a role where she talks about her “craft”.
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In addition to the loss of her looks and charm, she plays perhaps the most bimbo-ish character of her career. The plot itself is cute, and could easily be redone, but with Yves Montand as the leading man and a destructive leading lady, the movie falls flat on its face. Yves plays a millionaire who finds out he’s so disliked by everyone he’s about to be made fun of in a Broadway play. He storms off to the theater intending to shut it down, but instead everyone thinks he’s an actor auditioning, and since he looks so much like “the real guy”, he gets cast in the play. It sounds pretty cute, and when he takes acting lessons from Bing Crosby, Milton Berle, and Gene Kelly, you can tell the sequences could have been funny, but Yves has such terrible comic timing, and his command over the English language is so poor, he just can’t pull it off. Marilyn plays an idiotic actress who gets played by Yves as he woos her pretending to be a starving artist. Since everyone knows Marilyn longed to be taken seriously as an actress, while simultaneously not possessing the chops to handle meaty roles, it’s just sad to see her in a role where she talks about her “craft”.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Classic Cinema Central Seleus B" for posting!
More Bing Crosby movies here!