It's CinemaScope Again - "How To Marry a Millionaire" while not the sharpest comedy to pop out of filmland, is very far from being unpleasant. A CinemaScope production now playing at the Colonial, the film is, of course, the most blown-up funny flicker this city has ever seen. Details involve three young models, played meatily by Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable, who used the film title as their source of study. The three reasons that if they want to attract rich men, young or old, the girls must act, look and live in the same atmosphere. Stuffed with huge quantities of Hollywood nerve, the young ladies adorn themselves in a fashionable apartment and attempt to lure bundles of gentleman who are happy to lose bundles of cash in a marital way. Obvious complications arise when Misses Monroe, Bacall and Grable, with or without apartment attract men who are sometimes not "loaded..."

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