"Certain for audience favor is Monroe's blonde with astigmatism who goes through life bumping into things, including men, because she thinks glasses would detract. Also captivating is Grable's Loco a friendly, cuddly blonde who turns situations to advantage until the great outdoors overwhelms her. As the brains of the trio, Bacall's Schatze is a wise-cracking, hard-shelled gal who gives up millions for love and gets both. A real standout among the other players is William Powell as the elderly Texas rancher who woos, wins and then gives up Bacall." -- Variety

"In the lingo of merchandising there is a neat word - 'packaging' - for the business of putting up a product in a container of deceptive size and show. And that, in manner of speaking, is the word for what Twentieth Century-Fox has done in fetching an average portion of very light comedy in its How to Marry a Millionaire...It is true that producer Nunnally Johnson, who also wrote the script, and Jean Negulesco, who directed, have attempted to fill the mammoth screen with extravagant scenic adornments and some fine panoramic displays...But the total effect of these glimpses is one of proud but nonessential showing off." -- The New York Times

"...the gold rush is rowdy, irreverent, and sprinkled with belly laughs. As the mainspring of the mantrap, Lauren Bacall is the least convincing of the three. She does her work with a reptile eye and a cold, slit grin. Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand, is pert and comfortable as a not-so-dumb blonde who doesn't like to wear glasses for fear men won't make passes. Betty Grable, a performer who has always appeared to have just about as much above the eyebrows as below, carries off the show with such scenes as the one in which she arrives with her millionaire friend at his 'lodge' in Maine and stammers in baby-blue-eyed amazement, 'But where are all the Elks?' The important thing about the picture, however, is the proof it offers that CinemaScope can do the comic about as well as it can the epic...In providing a second superproduction to follow up its first, Fox has made a strong lead to take the next trick in the big game now being played for the entertainment dollar. If How to Marry a Millionaire is a grandscale success, the other Hollywood studios will probably have to trump, or follow Fox's suit." -- Time magazine

"Terrific ensemble work in dandy comedy of three man-hunting females pooling resources to trap eligible bachelors." -- Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide

AWARDS AND HONORS

Charles Le Maire and Travilla received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design, Color for their work on How to Marry a Millionaire.

How to Marry a Millionaire was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film.

Screenwriter/producer Nunnally Johnson was nominated for a WGA (Writers Guild of America) Award for Best Written American Comedy for his How to Marry a Millionaire screenplay.

Compiled by Andrea Passafiume