Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
It’s luscious, the colors, the guy’s ties, the fact that in all of the women she is the ONLY blonde (she would make sure that no other blonde ever was in one of her pictures- even down to the extras … She would scan the crowd of extras, looking for any platinum headed chick – and if there was one? She’d quietly speak to someone, and platinum extra would vanish the next day. Look closer next time you see one of her movies, even in crowd scenes – it’s all brunettes, and mousy-haired girls … except for her. Marilyn was no dummy)
The number makes me happy every time I see it. I just lose myself in it – even though I’ve memorized her every gesture.
And speaking of gestures: just WATCH her. Yes, it’s choreography. Someone gave the moves to her. She always had good people working around her. But it takes a star to fill those gestures, to make them mythic, to have them land. Every tiny shimmy, every eensy shoulder shrug – and then every big bold burlesque move – is not just perfectly executed – but perfectly embodied and filled.
Love her to pieces in this…
Funny, I had never noticed the absence of blonde dancers around her in this number. Of course, I have a hard time looking at anything BUT Marilyn whenever I watch one of her films (that’s the degree of my adoration, haha!), but you are so right, Sheila. And her being the only platinum blonde really works wonderfully.
What I did notice right away was her hair getting a bit mussed in a couple of scenes during her choreography, and I just love it!
Oh, and I ADORE her little shimmies!