How to see through a shoe: the fashion show sequence in How to Marry a Millionaire
This chapter analyses the fashion show sequence in How to Marry a Millionaire (Jean Negulesco, 1953). In this spectacle of sensory plenitude, which features a pair of translucent platform heels, gives objective form to the film’s overarching games of revelation. The shoes worn by Marilyn Monroe, with their versatility in function and meaning, offer a means of thinking through the shifting parameters not only of the culture of visibility in Golden-Age Hollywood, but also of the various screens on which they are viewed today.