How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
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Her room is full of Hollywood memorabilia, a poster of How to Marry a Millionaire on the wall.
The women in Under the Silver Lake are all presented as items of consumption, the most prominent being Riley Keough’s Sarah, a blonde temptress who lures Sam into an underworld vortex when she suddenly disappears after a stoned viewing of How to Marry a Millionaire.
When he finally meets Sarah, the breathy blonde invites him in to get stoned and watch How to Marry a Millionaire, establishing a Marilyn Monroe link that will resurface in Sam's dream of Sarah in the famous Something's Got to Give nude pool scene.
Sam and Sarah get stoned and watch How to Marry a Millionaire; R.E.M. plays at a party; in Sam’s bedroom hangs a poster of Kurt Cobain; an NES, vintage Playboy, and vinyl player all feature prominently.
When Sam spies an unknown young woman, played by Riley Keough — who is in real life a descendent of none other than Elvis — he is smitten, and once she lets him inside her apartment, her film obsession turns out to be “How to Marry a Millionaire.”
She follows in the footsteps of the Madonna of “Desperately Seeking Susan” vintage or Marilyn Monroe in “How to Marry a Millionaire.”
Not since the days of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire has women's morally dubious pursuit of wealth been so much fun.