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In 1953, Hawks made Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which featured Marilyn Monroe famously singing " Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.

" The film starred Monroe and Jane Russell as two gold digging, cabaret performer best friends that many critics point out is Hawks's only female version of his celebrated " buddy film " genre.

In 1955 Hawks made an atypical Land of the Pharaohs, a Sword-and-sandal epic about ancient Egypt and starring Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins.

The film was Hawks's final collaboration with longtime friend William Faulkner before the author's death.

In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's " defending the fort " of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out.

Film critic Robin Wood has said if he " were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood ... it would be Rio Bravo.