prefer
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Monroe was filming 20th Century Fox’s “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” at the time and studio head Darryl Zanuck pressured her to deny that the photos were of her.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
She starred in some of the biggest Hollywood films of her era, including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like It Hot and How to Marry a Millionaire.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2024
The screen legend, star of such films as "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "Some Like It Hot" and "The Misfits," was found dead in a bedroom of the home in August 1962 at the age of 36.
From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2023
As the weather grows colder, it is, for instance, a perfect time to settle in with Dickens’s “The Pickwick Papers,” Saki’s ironic short stories or Anita Loos’s immortal “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022
Prefer good one- and two-year-old, stocky, low-headed trees.
From The Apple by Various
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