Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Not actually a sequel to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) since the film is about new characters in a completely different story line.

Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck had originally assumed the need to dub the singing voices of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) until musical director Lionel Newman famously stitched together a vocal rendition of their opening number from multiple takes. As a back-up plan, an alternate set of recordings was made with Eileen Wilson dubbing Russell's voice, but in the end both ladies sang for themselves, and Russell even released an album of songs on the MGM label. From that point on, Jane Russell always sang in her own movies, including Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955), and she would go on to a very successful run on Broadway as Elaine Stritch's replacement in the show "Company" in 1971.

As of 2021, this film has never been released on any home video format in the U.S. For years, it could be seen only on broadcast television, particularly TBS, which ran it frequently. At present, it can be seen sporadically on Turner Classic Movies, which broadcasts only the British print. The American print, featuring alternate main title credits and Johnny Desmond's vocals, has not been seen since the 1980s.

Features the first film performance of the Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart song "My Funny Valentine." The song had been introduced in 1937 by Mitzi Green in the stage musical "Babes in Arms," and was originally slated to appear in both the MGM film version of that show and the 1948 Rodgers and Hart biopic Words and Music (1948), for which it was prerecorded by Betty Garrett. Following its appearance in Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955), the standard turned up two years later in the film version of Pal Joey (1957).

Jane Russell, Rudy Vallee, and Alan Young do their own singing, while Jeanne Crain and Scott Brady are dubbed.