”A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, / But diamonds are a girl's best friend. This is expanded upon in the movie in the song written by Gordon Martin that Marilyn Monroe sings. She doesn’t see the sense in her friend Dorothy hanging out with tennis champions ”or going around with gentlemen who do not have anything.” After all, isn’t it as easy to love a man with money as it is to love a man with none? ”.because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever.” Lorelei Lee is mercenary in the ways of love. Lorelei takes a different path to security than I did. It was my job to figure out how to get my fair share. He, after all, left me a world of plenty. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.” I decided to go with more of a solemn oath to myself and left God out of it. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. I didn’t have my Scarlett moment: ”As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I decided that I was going to do what I could to never be poor again. When I was going to college, I experienced frequent bouts of poverty, not Grapes of Wrath poverty, but I certainly had many moments where all the money I had in the world was jingling in my pocket.and not very loudly. People who are able to focus all their brain power on one desire become very cunning in the narrow focus of achieving their goal.ĭorothy, played so well by Jane Russell in the movie, is attracted to a different sort of man than Lorelei. She is pretty, but not just pretty, she is a vava voom beauty.Īnd as Dorothy says in the quote at the beginning of this review, Lorelei Lee has an unusual mind, a brain that on the surface seems as vibrant as a bag of hammers, but as I read her diary, the more I start to understand that she has a single minded purpose.

Lorelei Lee from Little Rock is one of those mysteries of nature.

Genetics are puzzling and unpredictable, sometimes giving unattractive kids to attractive parents or cherubs to parents who are mystified how symmetrical features ever found their way into their family tree. It can appear in blue stocking families, or come from hard working blue collar families, or it can even occur in a trailer trash family from Little Rock, Arkansas. I mean she said my brains reminded her of a radio because you listen to it for days and days and you get discouraged and just when you are getting ready to smash it, something comes out that is a masterpiece.”īeauty can be born just about anywhere. Dorothy looked at me and looked at me and she really thought my brains were a miracle. ”So when I got through telling Dorothy what I thought up.

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