[1] Loos had planned on retiring after writing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in order to care for her partner, John Emerson.

Dorothy marries Lester, a saxophone player from the Follies; she soon finds that marriage is not everything she wanted it to be...It is the bright ideas that keep home fires burning and prevent a divorce from taking the bloom off a romance.Both Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes were viewed by female scholars as celebration bordering on satire.

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes is a musical film made by Russ-Field productions, starring Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain, and released by United Artists.

Anita Loos was the author of the novel and play Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which had been turned into a smash film with Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe in 1953.

Anita Loos had entitled her book But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, but the studio dropped the first word from the title for the film.