Of course I like it, this is a classic, a must-see, still great, brilliant, funny and sweet after sixty years. I like these girls, all three of them. Lauren Bacall (no need to say anything else) plays Schatze Page, the cynic intelligent woman who comes up with the plan: she has been married once already, but to a crook that was already married and that left her penniless, and now she intends to find a husband using her brain and not her heart; Marilyn Monroe (not just beautiful, I find her adorable and quite good) plays Pola: "blind as a bat" using her own words, she keeps bumping into things but she refuses to wear her glasses in public because she's convinced that men don't like girls with glasses so she takes them off whenever people may see her, she even took them off when she was on the phone with a man :-p ; Betty Grable plays Loco, a bit silly sometimes but she knows her way around men :-p
Schatze rent a big apartment in the city and shares it with Pola and Loco. They are three models, and Schatze's plan is simple: to use all their tactics to find (and marry) a guy who's loaded, a millionaire. On their first day in the new place, they meet Mr Tom Brookman, who helped Loco bring her shopping home. She had no money but bought food for three then said she had forgotten her wallet and Tom helped her out. Because of where Loco met him, and because he always wears 'casual' clothes, never a tie, nothing fancy, Schatze is sure that he is " a gas pump jockey", but we see him entering the "Brookman building" and we see him in his office, and we know he has big money, but she doesn't (I believe the that the theory of it is that she immediately recognized him as a charming man, and previous experience had taught her to be careful of charmers).
After three months they are exactly where they started, but money starts to be a problem. She has sold all the furniture in the house already when Loco comes home yet again with a man who helped her carry her bags, only this time she met him somewhere fancy so Schatze is interested. This man J.D. is very nice and very decent and kind of adorable; through him Loco and Pola meet two men that might have been interesting (=rich) but it turned out they weren't (married/crook). Anyway, Loco accepts this married man's invitation to go to Maine with him, not realizing he was taking her to an isolated cabin surrounded only by snow and trees. She thought it was a place with music and dancing and lots of guests... a bit silly. Once there, she meets Eben who is very handsome and young and they fall in love. He is a ranger, but at first she didn't know what this meant. She thought he was rich, which is quite silly too considering he was their driver from the train station to the cabin, but to be fair he DID say that all that land and all those trees were his: she thought he owned all that, but he doesn't, he only watches over it.
Pola wanted to go to Atlantic City to meet her 'millionaire', but since she never wears her glasses she took the wrong plane. On her way to Kansas City (:-p) she meets Freddie, sitting next to her on the plane. They talk a lot and he has her put on her glasses and he tells her that she looks even better with them on and by this he wins her heart :lol: now she never walks without them :-)
Freddie seems to have problems with taxes, and he's a sort-of fugitive.
Schatze had all her hopes on J.D., but he leaves telling her he's doing her a favor because he's 55, too old for her, but he kindly buys back for her all the furniture of the house before leaving. Now she's all alone, without J.D. and without her girl friends, and she feels lonely and finally she accepts Tom's invitation. He kept inviting her out and she kept saying no, but now the go out and eat a hamburger together, and despite her constant statement that "after tonight I never want to see you again" because she believes hi without money, she keeps going out with him. Against her better judgement, she falls in love with him, until one day JD comes back saying he has changed his mind and if she wants him he'll marry her. She says yes, thinking that she finally got what she wanted, what she was looking for all along. Her wedding day comes, right there in that same apartment, and at last Loco and Pola come back. They are both married now: not to millionaires, but to men they love very much. Schatze keeps talking about JD's money (as if trying to convince herself) but in the end she can't go through with it and breaks up with JD, who understands that there is a "young man" in her heart. She admits she's in love with this young man and tells JD his name. As a businessman, of course JD knows Tom, but doesn't tell her the truth. Instead he tells Tom the truth, he tells him that she chose him, then he takes him to her. This is even less realistic than the young man not taking advantage of his money to get the girl because he wants her to love HIM and not his money. Anyway, last scene: our three girls eating hot-dogs or something, in the company of their three husbands. When they joke about the money they don't have and Schatze asks Tom, he tells the truth but they believe it to be a joke. When he takes out of his pocket a big roll of 1000-dollar bills ("keep the change", basically almost 1.000 dollars tip) the three girls faint at once :lol:
Schatze always said that they needed at least one, not necessarily three, and she caught him :-p so much trouble and she had met him on day one :-p
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