Diamonds are a girl's best friends

Las comparaciones son odiosas, pero situar a dos actrices como Marilyn Monroe y Nicole Kidman en la misma entrada no significa que las esté comparando. Vamos a situarnos.

Gentelman prefer blondes (Los caballeros las prefieren rubias), dirigida por Howard Hawks es un musical de 1953 basado en la novela del mismo título de Anita Loos y en el musical de Broadway, de igual título, de Joseph Fields y Anita Loos. Protagonizan esta divertida comedia en la que convergen seducciones, espías, y amantes Marilyn Monroe y Jane Russell.

Moulin Rouge, dirigida por Baz Luhrmann, es un musical de 2001 basado en gran parte en la ópera de Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata. Nicole Kidman y Ewan McGregor protagonizan un Romeo y Julieta que tiene encontradas reacciones dada la prevalencia de lo visual sobre lo argumental y musical (pues pocas canciones son originales).

Sin más dilación, Diamonds are a girl's best friends:

En Gentelman prefer blondes:


The French were bred to die for love
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive jewels
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl's best friend

A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental
On your humble flat, or help you at the automat
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square cut or pear shaped
These rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend

Tiffany's, Cartier
Talk to me, Harry, Winston, tell me all about it
There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
There may come a time when a hard boiled employer
Thinks your awful nice
But get that ice or else no dice
He's your guy when stocks are high
But beware when the start to descend
It's then that those louses go back to their spouses
Diamonds are a girl's best friend
I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonic
But diamonds are a girl's best friend
And I think affairs that you must keep liaisonic
Are better bets if little pets get big baggettes
Time rolls on and youth is gone
And you can't straighten up when you bend
But stiff back or stiff knees
You stand straight at Tiffany's

Diamonds
Diamonds
I don't mean rhinestones
But Diamonds
Are a girl's best... best friend

En Moulin Rouge:


Diamonds are a girl's best friends fue escrita por Jule Styne y Leo Robin, basándose en la novela de Anita Loos Los caballeros las prefieren rubias, e introducida por Carol Channing en el musical de Broadway de igual título en 1949.