2001 marked her career's turning point with the breakout role as Elle Woods in the box office hit Legally Blonde, and in 2002 she starred in Sweet Home Alabama, which became her biggest commercial film success to date.

2001 marked a significant turning point in Witherspoon's career, when she starred in the feature film Legally Blonde.

In 2009, she also produced a spin-off film of Legally Blonde called Legally Blondes, featuring Camilla " Milly " Rosso and Rebecca " Becky " Rosso.

In 2001, she had a supporting role in the hit film Legally Blonde opposite Reese Witherspoon.

" Berardinelli ranked the film with two stars, saying, " This isn't a good film, but, when set alongside the likes of Dumb and Dumberer and Legally Blonde 2, Jen & Ben offer less pain.

In its first opening weekend, the film opened at # 2 in the U. S. Box office raking in $ 19, 018, 807 USD, behind Legally Blonde.

This stereotype has become so ingrained it has spawned counter-narratives, such as in the 2001 film Legally Blonde in which Reese Witherspoon succeeds at Harvard despite biases against her beauty and blonde hair, and terms developed such as cookie cutter blond ( CCB ), implying standardized blond looks and standard perceived social and intelligence characteristics of a blond.

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde ( also referred to as just Legally Blonde 2 ) is the 2003 sequel to the 2001 film, Legally Blonde.

Her other film work includes roles in Dead Man on Campus, Legally Blonde, Brokeback Mountain ( for which she was nominated for the ensemble Gotham and Screen Actors Guild awards ), and a starring role in the Happy Madison film Grandma's Boy as Samantha.

ABC Family has also purchased the cable television rights to many film series, such as the Harry Potter film series ( which ABC and Disney Channel also hold rights to ), 2004's A Cinderella Story and its 2008 made-for-DVD spinoff Another Cinderella Story and most recently the Legally Blonde film series ( after securing rights to the 2009 made-for-DVD release Legally Blondes ).

The film Legally Blonde starring Reese Witherspoon featured the stereotype as a centerpiece of its plot.

She appeared in Kelsey Grammer's The Sketch Show on Fox Television, King of Queens as a character named " Priscilla ", a waitress at a pirate-themed kiddie restaurant in an episode of Newsradio (" The Secret of Management "), and in numerous films including Mysterious Skin, Legally Blonde 2, Sweet Home Alabama, Dude, Where's My Car ?, Man on the Moon, Punch-Drunk Love, The Anniversary Party, Firewall, Little Miss Sunshine, music videos for Beck, Weezer and Sheryl Crow, as well as portraying a blind girl in the film Road Trip.

The theatre recently housed Legally Blonde: The Musical, a stage adaptation of the 2001 film, which played its final performance on October 19, 2008.

Eliot's prominent belltower is featured in many films, including two screen shots in Old School ; Legally Blonde ; Chasing Liberty ; and Euro Trip, which features the tower at the end of the film, incorrectly identifying it as Oberlin College.

The film would have starred Michael Madsen and John Travolta reprising their roles of Vic ( Mr. Blonde ) from Reservoir Dogs and Vincent from Pulp Fiction.

Loves of a Blonde is one of best – known movies of Czechoslovak New Wave and has been rewarded on the Venice and Locarno film festivals.

Eric Blore had appeared in The Lady Eve and Porter Hall would go on to appear in three other Sturges films: The Great Moment, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Sturges's last American film.

He would also appear in The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, Sturges ' last American film.

She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown ( 1997 ), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ), Chocolat ( 2000 ), Iris ( 2001 ), Mrs Henderson Presents ( 2005 ) and Notes on a Scandal ( 2006 ), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ( 2001 ).

Guinan was portrayed on film in Incendiary Blonde ( 1945 ) by Betty Hutton, and in Splendor in the Grass ( 1961 ) by Phyllis Diller.

Offered the opportunity to write her autobiography, she took a role in the BBC television film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells, alongside Dame Judi Dench and Olympia Dukakis.

* The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ( 2000, TV film )

Holm has been nominated for an Emmy Award twice, for a PBS broadcast of a National Theatre production of King Lear, in 1999 ; and for a supporting role in the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells opposite Judi Dench, in 2001.

As the disease worsened and the medication greatly altered Turner's looks, along with excess alcohol consumption that Turner said she used to kill her physical pain, her once promising film career as a leading lady took a nose dive and Turner was seen in fewer and fewer blockbusters — though Turner also blamed her age, stating that " when I was forty the roles started slowing down, I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers ..." She appeared in the low-budget House of Cards, experienced moderate success with John Waters's black comedy Serial Mom, and had supporting roles in A Simple Wish, The Real Blonde, and Sofia Coppola's acclaimed The Virgin Suicides.

" The film underwent more than five months of post-production tinkering, including the removal of numerous scenes and the production number " I Like ' em Big and Stupid " ( a different version of the song plays in the club ; the deleted sequence appears on the DVD extras ) and reshoots later commenced ( the song "' Cause I'm a Blonde " was injected into the film late in the game ), by which time the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group had filed for bankruptcy.

In Norway it was known as Blond og Blondere (" Blonde and Blonder "), a conscious nod to the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber.

She then played a Madonna body double named Tina in the independent film The Real Blonde.

In October 2010, it was announced that Watts had landed the role of Marilyn Monroe in the film Blonde, which was set to start shooting in January 2011, but has been delayed.

The films touched on themes which for earlier film makers in the communist countries had rarely managed to avoid the objections of the censor, such as the misguided youths of Czechoslovak society portrayed in Miloš Forman's Black Peter ( 1963 ) and Loves of a Blonde ( Lásky jedné plavovlásky 1965 ), or those caught in a surrealistic whirlwind in Věra Chytilová's Daisies ( Sedmikrásky 1966 ) and Jaromil Jireš ' Valerie and Her Week of Wonders ( Valerie a týden divů 1970 ).

Some prominent Czech directors included Miloš Forman, who directed The Firemen's Ball, Black Peter, and Loves of a Blonde during this time, Věra Chytilová who is best known for her film Daisies, and Jiří Menzel, whose film Closely Watched Trains ( Ostře sledované vlaky 1966 ) won an academy award for best foreign language film.

The film they did after his return was an inconsequential bit of nothing titled Out Of This World, a satire on the Sinatra bobby-soxer craze.

Each successive movement in his growing was recorded on the unreeling film inside her.

Never a `` quick study '', he now made no attempt to learn his `` lines '' and many a mile of film was wasted, many a scene -- sometimes involving as many as a thousand fellow thespians -- was taken thirty, forty, fifty times because Miss Poitrine's co-star and `` helpmate '' had never learned his part.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.

) The film was called The Diet of Worms, which I felt was just what Letch deserved.

It was a `` potboiler '' made on a `` shoestring '' and not the sort of film I like, as all I had to do was look blank and scream a great deal.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

Rudyard Kipling's scorn for the `` jargon '' of psychical research was altered somewhat when he wondered `` how, or why, had I been shown an unreleased roll of my life film ''??

This discovery of Melies was vastly more important than his sometimes dazzling, magician's tricks produced on film.

It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Motion picture cameras had been installed to film the audience, the reservation list was being checked out name by name, and a special detail was already at work in the parking lot scrutinizing automobiles for a possible lead.

When arrested, he had the submarine secrets on a roll of candid camera film as well as anti-submarine secrets in Christmas gift wrapping, it was testified.

He said that drawings of the Dreadnought and printed details about the ship were found reproduced in an undeveloped roll of film taken from Lonsdale when he was arrested with the two civil servants outside the Old Vic theater Saturday afternoon, Jan. 7.

And it was interesting to observe that B.B.C.'s television film on Christmas Eve was The Bells Of St. Mary's.

Another source of NBC pride was its rare film clip of Bix Beiderbecke, but this view of the great trumpeter flew by so fast that a prolonged wink would have blotted out the entire glimpse.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.