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How to Be Very, Very, Popular

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NR,1hr 29min
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July 22, 1955
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20th Century Fox
Synopsis: Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was based on a play by Howard Lindsay. Betty and Sheree North star as a couple of striptease "artistes" who have the bad luck to witness a murder. Hoping to evade the killer, the girls hide out in a small college town, where they immediately win the hearts of the male frat brothers. One of these is overaged undergrad Robert Cummings, who falls for Betty, while Sheree settles for ... Full Synopsis
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How to Be Very, Very Popular is a mildly amusing by-the-numbers comedy that needed more imaginative treatment than it received to be the entertaining piece of fluff it wants to be; Billy Wilder would demonstrate how to do the artists-on-the-run-from-gangsters concept the right way a few years later in Some Like It Hot. Extremely dated, many modern viewers will find much of the humor sexist and unfunny, ... Full Review
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