This happens to be my favorite Hollywood bombshell triple threat movie…Bette Grable, Marilyn Monroe & Lauren Bacall.  These women deliver their comedic roles wonderfully.  The fashion is amazing…I just love the dresses, suits, gowns, swim suits, capri outfits….everything from that time!

Shatze Page (Bacall) orchestrates a grand plan of how she and her two fellow models can land themselves a few unsuspecting millionaires.  Her head is in the game and the plan is simple…pool the financial resources, rent a ridiculously expensive penthouse from Freddie Denmark (David Wayne), who was in hiding to avoid the IRS, and seek out the millionaires wherever they might be frolicking.  Shatze is one tough cookie who doesn’t go for anything less than what she believes is the perfect million dollar catch…one very kind, older widower J.D. Hanley (William Powell).  And you can’t help but feel bad for the striking young man, Tom Brookman (Cameron Mitchell), who is nothing more than a “gas pump jockey” to Shatze.  He tries so hard to crack her icy exterior only to hear after each date that she never wants to see him again.  Yet when it all comes down to it Shatze can’t go through with her wedding to J.D. Hanley and ends up marrying Tom Brookman instead.  (thinking that she’s ended up with the poorest choice of all)

Pola Debevoise (Monroe) is a little ditsy and ridiculously nearsighted.  Her simple charm reels you in and you can’t help but love this girl…she’s willing to run into walls just so that men don’t see her wearing glasses.  “Men aren’t attentive to girls who wear glasses.”  If she were wearing her glasses perhaps she wouldn’t have been fooled to believe that a prospective beau was an oil tycoon…luckily she ends up on the wrong plane and meets the very man that the ladies rented the penthouse from, Freddie Denmark.  His glasses are just about the same as hers…infact, he points out to her that with her glasses on she’s “quite a strudel”.  And while he doesn’t fare so well with the IRS, he ends up doing just fine with Pola.

Loco Dempsey (Grable) is exactly what her name states…loco (crazy).  She’s too funny and really a hopeless romantic who immediately thinks that any man who helps her is a potential love interest…including men who help her carry her groceries. (which happened to be our first glimpse of Brookman)  Yet on a trip to the mountains with a wealthy, gruff and grumpy business man (Fred Clark), Loco ends up getting sick and stuck at the little cabin they’re at.  During her ailment she’s nursed back to health by the local forest ranger Eben (Rory Calhoun) who she ends up falling head over heels for.  Granted she thinks that he owns all of the land that he points out as “his”…yeah, it’s his to look after as a forest ranger, unfortunately he doesn’t have hardly anything in his bank account.  But love prevails and marriage ensues.

The ending is what I love the most…I crack-up every time.  All three couples end up at a little dive eating burgers, shakes and fries.  To everyone’s suprise, Tom starts listing off all of his holdings, which everyone thinks is simply a joke given the girls’ original plan.  Turns out he’s really a billionaire and makes a statement by pulling out a wad the size of a roll of toilet paper to pay the tab at the diner with a $100 bill.  Ladies end up on the floor and the men end up toasting to their wives.  The irony.

It just shows that love is more important than the pursuit of wealth.  You never know what suprises love might bring your way…what romantic doesn’t love that?!