Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Anita Loos was the author of the novel and play Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which served the basis for the smash film with Jane Russell and Marilyan Monroe. It was hoped that Loos' sequel to the novel, "But They Marry Brunettes" would repeat that success. Russell returned with Jeanne Crain stepping in for a presumably otherwise engaged Monroe. Both women played new characters, if memory serves correct they were supposedly the daughters of one of the original two characters, Broadway showgirls, sick and tired of New York and not getting anywhere. Quitting Broadway, they decided to travel to Paris to become famous, unaware that the follies required more disrobing than they were comfortable with. The two wholesome mid-westerners were further discomforted by the realization that their fore bearers may have bee digging gold when last in the city of light. The film co-stars Alan Young (later the star of TV's Mr. Ed), and Scott Brady (brother of Lawrence Tierney), with Rudy Vallee as well. The Sequel film was not as well received as it's predecessor and thus not as well known.