Isn’t It Romantic?

"I hope you can kiss better than you sing or we’re out of business"

It’s an age old tale about a womanizing billionaire who wants the girl to like him for him, and not for his money. So he pretends to be poor while secretly buying a theater and then hiring Milton Berle, Bing Crosby and Gene Kelly to help him trick Marilyn Monroe into liking him.

Oh, and while he spends tons of money trying to win the girl, he also spends the entire movie lying through his teeth. I wonder if it’ll work…

"You’ll never impress her by being a rooster… unless she’s a chicken"

Cinematic Time Capsule - 1960 Ranked

From facebook memories:

Just saw the delightful 1960 film "Let's Make Love," starring a young Yves Montand and Marilyn Monroe, supported by Tony Randall and Wilfrid Hyde White. Great cameos by Milton Berle, Bing Crosby (from my home town!), and even Gene Kelly, who gives a brief but wonderful performance teaching Yves Montand to dance. They just don't make movies like that anymore...

They should have cast an actual billionaire to play the part of the billionaire playing the part of a billionaire

As you watch this you realize how powerful Marilyn Monroe is as an actress. This was hard to bear. The highlight of this film was the musical number which's title is the same as the motion picture.

"Let's Make Love" is one of the weakest George Cukor and Marilyn Monroe's titles, if not the weakest. It's too long at parts and too short at others. What's there to be saved is Marilyn's performance, as usual, and the musical numbers.

"Listen. There used to be an actor. He played Abraham Lincoln for so many years - this is true - he grew his own beard. He went around in a shawl and you know what they used to say? 'He looks like Lincoln. He talks like Lincoln. But he won't be satisfied till he gets shot!'"

Let's Make Love didn't end the way I wanted it to, but for a musical about a billionaire falling for a singer/dancer who tries to impress her with no discernible talent, it wasn't bad. Monroe makes the whole thing very watchable.

I L<3ve Musicals!

#52 in the George Cukor filmography.

This is often described as far from Marilyn's best, but I really enjoyed it, and her vulnerable pussycat who purrs "My Heart Belongs To Daddy", gets imported Frenchman Yves Montand hotter than hell (by all accounts, off-screen too), and toys with English smoothie Frankie Vaughan, who does well in his only major Hollywood film.

There's a host of cameos, too, from Uncle Milty to Bing, but it's Marilyn you'll watch, already going a little off the boil, but still a confused little girl in a sexy woman's body. It's a pity that Montand is wrong in every respect for the material, but Tony Randall offers solid support, and I liked the songs.

Monroe’s entrance and first big number is so strange. I can’t tell if was poorly shot and staged, or if they were actually getting at something about the Greenwich Village, off Broadway setting of it all – like it actively wants to feel not like a Hollywood musical, and instead went for something that was then-modern, now too esoteric to land.

This is a pretty weak version of the “guy pretends to be someone else to get the girl” plot. Partly because they have no real rapport, no plausible connection between Montand and Monroe as characters and as performers. And Montand is not that charming, but it’s his film instead of hers. One of the only things we’re told about his character is that he’s a womanizer, and nothing really develops to disprove that. It’s just him badly lying and lying badly.

Let's make love es una comedia musical desenfadada que cuenta con la presencia de Marilyn Monroe como principal reclamo.

Hay que reconocer que la propuesta contiene ingredientes de calidad de primer nivel: Canciones de Cole Porter, Dirección de George Cukor, Interpretes de la talla de Yves Montand (que borda su papel de millonario), Marilyn Monroe, Tony Randall, cinemascope..
La trama es una excusa para una sucesión de números musicales, para el lucimiento de Marilyn, y en definitiva para proporcionar un entretenimiento ligero, chispeante, muy deudor del cine made in Hollywood de la época, que funciona a pesar de sus carencias.

A destacar la aparición de Gene Kelly o Bing Crosby interpretándose a ellos mismos, y la mítica canción que interpreta Marilyn: My heart belongs to daddy.

From facebook memories:

Just saw the delightful 1960 film "Let's Make Love," starring a young Yves Montand and Marilyn Monroe, supported by Tony Randall and Wilfrid Hyde White. Great cameos by Milton Berle, Bing Crosby (from my home town!), and even Gene Kelly, who gives a brief but wonderful performance teaching Yves Montand to dance. They just don't make movies like that anymore...

One of Monroe’s weaker films. There are some good musical numbers but the story is flat and the movie suffers anytime she isn’t onscreen.

I don’t care what anyone else says this movie as adorable, Marilyn is adorable, Yves is adorable this movie is ridiculous and light and fantastic

I was all in till the last 10 minutes or so. Fun premise, Marilyn is awesome as she always is, this is probably one of her more charming roles. Yves does well being both sympathetic and aloof, the cameos are 50/50, Bing is a treat, Gene Kelly is on screen for all of 15 seconds. One of those films that I'm pretty sure I could come up with a half dozen better endings for in an afternoon. Still, an enjoyable one I'd have no problems watching again just for Marilyn's musical sequences.

Monroe and Yves Montand are both good, but this film is overproduced, overlong, unfunny, badly conceived and badly put together. Montand is the main character, a tycoon who secretly joins a stage show when he learns they're burlesquing him. So it's Montand's story, but he keeps being upstaged by Monroe, who doesn't appear as often as you would like, and Frankie Vaughn, the Italianate pop singer who does most of the singing and dancing in the film, but not much else. He plays the tycoon's rival for Monroe's affections.

dioss marilyn monroe es una diosa total yo no puedo creer la belleza y talento q posee esta mujer la amo con toda mi alma, mi ser, mi corazon y mi espiritu su personaje es un amor igual que ella y la adoro demasiado la rompio en esta peli la voz de esta mujer es increible y el vestido q usa en la parte de specialization es tan...

...eh? la pelicula? ah, es medio una poronga

Marilyn Marathon #8

Once again, we are cheated out of a better movie. That's a shame, since this has an energy that begins to approach the intro from The Spy Who Shagged Me.

This is a great fantasy to indulge in, though. If a girl already has a poor opinion of me, and I can't get her by cash alone, then maybe I can throw money at writers and coaches until I become the one she falls for. I've never wanted to be rich so bad in my life.

Out of all of the movies I review in this Marathon, this is probably the one I'll keep a copy of.

love to watch marilyn monroe and tony randall hating rich people! 

this was such a fun movie every element was so good. loved the way performances were shot, especially with the stage lights.

If I was a billionaire, I too would ring up Bing Crosby and Gene Kelly for singing and dance lessons.