Men with that much dough are never a little old.

November 5, 1953

Jean Negulesco romantic comedy, How to Marry a Millionaire, starring Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, and Cameron Mitchell premiered on this date. The film was 20th Century Fox’s first film to be shot in the new CinemaScope wide-screen sound process, although it was the second CinemaScope film released by Fox after the biblical epic film The Robe.

How to Marry a Millionaire helped make an auspicious introduction for Fox’s CinemaScope process to audiences and usher in a new era of widescreen entertainment. The film went on to become the fourth highest grossing Hollywood film of 1953.

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