Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love
Theatrical release poster by Tom Chantrell
Directed byGeorge Cukor
Written byNorman Krasna
Hal Kanter
Arthur Miller
Produced byJerry Wald
StarringMarilyn Monroe
Yves Montand
Tony Randall
Frankie Vaughan
Narrated byRichard Haydn
CinematographyDaniel L. Fapp
Edited byDavid Bretherton
Music byLionel Newman
Earle Hagen
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • September 8, 1960 (1960-09-08)
Running time
119 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$3.6 million
Box office$6.5 million

Let's Make Love is a 1960 American musical comedy film made by 20th Century Fox in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope. Directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter and Arthur Miller, the film stars Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand and Tony Randall. It would be Monroe's last musical film performance. Not long before she died in 1962, Monroe commented that the role of Amanda was the worst in her career. In her opinion, there was "no role...that you had to wrack your brain...there was nothing there with the writing" and that it had "been part of an old contract." Arthur Miller was also critical of the film, stating that despite his efforts to improve the script it was "like putting plaster on a peg leg." During an interview with David Letterman in 1988, Montand acknowledged his difficulties with the script and his problem speaking English, but said it was an honor to work alongside Marilyn Monroe.