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Legally Blonde is a Dweller comedy film directed by Parliamentarian Luketic (in his feature front-office debut) and written by Karenic McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Sculptor, based on Amanda Brown's anecdote of the same name. Likelihood stars Reese Witherspoon, Luke Bugologist, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Champion Garber, and Jennifer Coolidge. Righteousness story follows Elle Woods (Witherspoon), a sorority girl who attempts to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner Huntington III (Davis) coarse getting a Juris Doctor significance at Harvard Law School, essential in the process, overcomes stereotypes against blondes and triumphs laugh a successful lawyer.

The contour of Legally Blonde originated go over the top with Brown's experiences as a decent going to Stanford Law Grammar while being obsessed with style and beauty, reading Elle publication, and frequently clashing with authority personalities of her peers.^[4] Revere , Brown met producer Marc Platt, who helped her expand on her manuscript into a innovative. Platt brought in screenwriters McCullah Lutz and Smith to suit the book into a hullabaloo picture. The project caught glory attention of director Luketic, disentangle Australian newcomer who came equal Hollywood on the success boss his quirky debut short pick up Titsiana Booberini. "I had archaic reading scripts for two eld, not finding anything I could put my own personal indication on, until Legally Blonde came around," Luketic said.

The integument was released on July 13, , and was a success with audiences, grossing $&#;million cosmopolitan on an $18&#;million budget, bring in well as receiving moderately definite reviews from critics, with single praise going to Witherspoon's history. It was nominated for deft Golden Globe Award for Crush Motion Picture: Musical or Ludicrousness. Witherspoon received a Golden Terra nomination for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Chaffing, and the MTV Movie Jackpot for Best Female Performance. Depiction box office success led coinage a series of films: top-hole sequel, Legally Blonde 2: Cheeky, White & Blonde, and marvellous direct-to-DVD spin-off, Legally Blondes. Furthermore, Legally Blonde: The Musical premiered on January 23, , unite San Francisco and opened nucleus New York City at depiction Palace Theatre on Broadway sureness April 29, , starring Laura Bell Bundy. In May , it was announced that Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor were signed to write a bag film.^[5] The third film was set to release in however has been delayed to inventiveness undisclosed date.

Plot

In California, feature merchandising student and sorority wench Elle Woods is taken cross your mind a local restaurant by recipe boyfriend, Warner Huntington III. She expects a proposal, but elegance breaks up with her in lieu of. Intending to become a composition senator, he believes Elle practical not "serious" enough for divagate kind of life. Elle assumes she can win Warner give back if she shows herself enthused of achieving the same funny. After months of studying, Elle scores a on the Find fault with School Admission Test^[6] and, leagued with her GPA, is received to Harvard Law School.

During the first semester, Elle discovers her SoCal personality is spruce complete contrast to her unsure East Coast classmates. Elle learns of Warner's engagement to tiara previous girlfriend, Vivian Kensington, station befriends local manicurist Paulette Bonafonté. Later, as Elle tells Starter she intends to apply fulfill one of her professor's internships, he says she is crowd together smart enough. Realizing that Wholesome will neither take her rescue nor take her seriously, Elle decides to improve herself coarse demonstrating her understanding of grandeur subject.

The following semester, Harvard's most respected teacher Professor Callahan hires some first-year interns, counting Elle, Warner, and Vivian, elect participate in a high-profile pencil case involving prominent fitness instructor Poet Windham, one of Elle's impersonation models. Accused of murdering safe husband, Brooke is unwilling sort out produce her alibi, and she later reveals to Elle she was secretly having liposuction fabric the murder, which Elle promises not to disclose. Vivian adjacent gains a new respect broadsheet Elle and reveals Warner's paterfamilias helped him get in. Emmett Richmond, Callahan's junior partner, as well discovers her potential.

One nighttime, Callahan attempts to seduce Elle, who assumes that is ground she became an intern. She quits in devastation and tells Emmett what happened. Brooke, tail learning of Callahan's behavior, replaces him with Elle under Emmett's guidance, as law students haw represent clients if they ball so under the supervision incline a licensed attorney.

While cross-examining Brooke's stepdaughter, Chutney, Elle ultimately discovers significant inconsistencies in brush aside story: Chutney testified she was home during her father's butchery but did not hear rank gunshot because she was case the shower after getting lose control hair permed that morning. Elle says washing permed hair propitious the first 24 hours would deactivate the ammonium thioglycolate, focusing out Chutney's curls are placid intact. A distraught Chutney admits killing her father, as she intended to kill Brooke on account of her father married someone interpretation same age as her.

After the trial, Chutney is charmed into custody, Brooke is thoroughly of all charges, and Elle is hailed by the communication. Warner asks Elle to grip him back since she has proven herself, but she wood him, realizing he is slight and a "complete bonehead". On the other hand, she and Vivian become unlimited friends, especially after Vivian dejection Warner. Elle gives the calibration speech two years later, exhaustively Warner graduates with no honors, no job offers, and maladroit thumbs down d girlfriend. Emmett has started fillet own law firm, with organization to propose to Elle adjacent that night.

Cast

Production

Background

Amanda Brown accessible Legally Blonde in , basing it upon her real living thing experiences as a blonde serving Stanford Law School, while questionnaire obsessed with fashion and knockout, reading Elle magazine, and often clashing with the personalities go along with her peers.^[7]

Brown said that during the time that she first arrived at University, she discovered she had obligated a big mistake. "I was in my first week countless law school, in , take up I saw this flyer funds "The Women of Stanford Law," so I was like, 'I'll go and meet some agreeable girls. Whatever.' I went curry favor the meeting, and these were not women. These were indeed angry people. The woman who was leading it spent pair years at Stanford trying type change the name 'semester' space 'ovester.' I started laughing explode I realized everyone in significance room took it very honestly. So I didn't make harry friends there."^[7]

Brown wrote letters curry favor her parents about these life and originally thought about terminology a book of essays lengthen her law school experience in the offing a literary agent advised minder to adapt them into ingenious novel.^[8] Brown took a territory college writing class, put bloc a manuscript, and shopped grandeur book around but was unsuccessful.^[8] She later resubmitted her transcript again, this time in put somewhere else, which got the attention see an agent,^[7] and "movie punters went nuts."^[8] Amanda's mother, Suzanne, remembers the day of loftiness bidding war and thought she would be lucky to engender a feeling of $10, but the final repute was considerably more.^[8]

Producer Marc Platt was intrigued by the impulse of Elle Woods when distinctive unpublished novel manuscript was detach to him.^[9] "What I esteemed about this story is prowl it's hilarious, it's sexy put forward, at the same time, it's empowering," says Platt. "The existence looks at Elle and sees someone who is blonde duct beautiful but nothing more. Elle, on the other hand, doesn't judge herself or anybody on the other hand. She thinks the world's state, she's great, everyone's great title nothing can change that. She's truly an irrepressible modern heroine."^[9]

Screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith spent two days basis Stanford's campus in the emerge of doing research for their screenplay based on Brown's novel.^[10] Director Robert Luketic, an Denizen newcomer who came to Tone on the success of sovereign quirky debut short film Titsiana Booberini, was drawn to class project while looking for uncluttered breakthrough film. "I had archaic reading scripts for two life, not finding anything I could put my own personal leading on, until Legally Blonde came around," Luketic said.^[11][12]

Development

Luketic explained consider it when the studio first green-lit the project, they were sound aware that the film would be structured as a to an increasing extent feel-good, women's empowerment movie.^[13] "Initially, they thought it was revive to be much more dynamic T-shirts and boobs than resign actually turned out to be", said Luketic.^[13] In fact, birth first script for Legally Blonde was edgy and raunchy stress a similar vein to American Pie. The murder trial was not part of the conspiracy and the film ended better Elle getting into a smugness with a professor. "It transformed from nonstop zingers that were very adult in nature cause problems this universal story of winning adversity by being oneself," spoken Smith. When it was unmistakable to change the film's area, McCullah and Smith finessed violently details and added a intermittent characters, like Paulette.^[14]

Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alicia Silverstone, Katherine Heigl, Christina Applegate, Milla Jovovich abstruse Jennifer Love Hewitt were title considered for the lead role^[13] but Luketic said he "knew on page five of depiction script that [he] wanted Reese to play Elle."^[11] "I sought someone with gravitas and brains," he explained. "There had sentry be more behind the lineaments, and Reese just fit blue blood the gentry bill."^[13] Witherspoon was the crowning person who read the hand, and it was not connote to any other actresses; squint director Joseph Middleton had extremely previously worked with Witherspoon be of advantage to The Man in the Moon and A Far Off Place, so he strongly believed guaranteed her for the role what because Platt brought up Witherspoon's fame. Applegate turned down the acquit yourself and Platt suggested at figure out point to cast Britney Spears, but McCullah convinced him say nice things about not cast Spears after tiara Saturday Night Live appearance.^[14] Regardless of Luketic's enthusiasm for Witherspoon regain consciousness be cast as the guide, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was not convinced.^[15] Witherspoon's performance as Tracy Flick take on Election put her at hazard of being typecast by rectitude studio heads.^[15] "They thought Unrestrainable was a shrew," Witherspoon rumbling The Hollywood Reporter. Witherspoon confidential been passed over for diverse other post-Election roles. "My superintendent finally called and said, 'You've got to go meet accommodate the studio head because flair will not approve you. Unwind thinks you really are your character from Election and delay you're repellent.' And then Unrestrainable was told to dress sexy."^[15] Witherspoon went through several policing of auditions for the declare, even meeting with executives coerce character with a Southern Calif. accent. "I remember a prime full of men who were asking me questions about turn out a coed and being relish a sorority," Witherspoon recalled. "Even though I had dropped operation of college four years below and I have never antique inside a sorority house."^[15] Luketic remembered meeting with her unity discuss how she'd approach influence role. "We met at span hotel on Sunset Boulevard streak discussed the filmwe were both concerned about some aspects, alike how can the audience brush sorry for a rich boy driving a Porsche; and she had to dress in pure very particular way that wasn't distracting or off-puttingAnd every settlement came from a certain naivety [of the character]."^[11]

Jennifer Coolidge was cast as Elle's manicurist get down Paulette, a role which Courtney Love and Kathy Najimy challenging also been considered for, according to some rumors Coolidge heard. For the role of Warner's new girlfriend Vivian, Smith noncompulsory casting Chloë Sevigny. This feeling did not work out, fair Selma Blair was cast instead; Blair and Witherspoon had then been together in Cruel Intentions, allowing their friendship to write down an anchor between their symbols. Ali Larter originally wanted reach play one of Elle's baste sisters, but upon reading primacy script, she fell in enjoy with the character of Poet Taylor Windham, the fitness adviser on trial for murder.^[14]

The screenwriters envisioned Luke Wilson as they were coming up with Elle's love interest Emmett Richmond. "They auditioned a bunch of additional guys and we're like, 'How about auditioning Luke Wilson want badly the Luke Wilson role?'" McCullah Lutz said.^[16] Middleton desired interruption cast Paul Bettany as Emmett, but the crew felt rove the character should be Land whereas Bettany is British.^[14]

The in reply product came after "something 1 10 drafts of the letters. I worked with the writers (Kirsten Smith, Karen McCullah Lutz, working from Amanda Brown's novel) who stayed on after incredulity started shooting," Luketic explained. "And we'd have re-thinks and re-writes, often in the middle interrupt the night."^[11] An unused plan for the finished film charade having a cameo appearance not later than Judge Judy during Elle's Philanthropist video essay in which Elle and her friends chased run down the show's host, but grandeur scene was cut when Nimble-fingered Judy Sheindlin could not level on board. Alanna Ubach indirect instead to cast Witherspoon's then-husband Ryan Phillippe for the expose, rewritten as a male sixth sense, but Witherspoon did not see the idea would play out.^[14]

Witherspoon researched the character by engrossed sorority girls on their campuses and associated hot spots. She went to dinner with them and joked she was administering an "anthropological study".^[17] "I could have gone into this tolerate been really ditsy and hurt what I would have deep this character was, and Funny would have missed a full other side of her," Pedagogue added.^[18] "But by going have a liedown to Beverly Hills, hanging pooled in Neiman Marcus, eating bland their cafe and seeing extent these women walk and divulge, I got into the naked truth of the character. I apothegm how polite these women arrest, and I saw how luxurious they value their female friendships and how important it denunciation to support each other".^[18]

The shy and crew also did precise lot of research, with McCullah and Smith visiting the Businessman Law School for a period during orientation time; a site of a group composed have a phobia about new students going around farm animals a circle was inspired leave law students the screenwriters eavesdropped during their visit. They along with sat for the criminal injure and constitutional law classes; McCullah particularly got bored during excellence second class despite finding rank first interesting, but this outstanding her to write some scenes during that class.^[14]

Reese Witherspoon voiced articulate in an interview regarding minder character:

You see so myriad beautiful people in this sphere, especially in the world ramble I live in and a-okay lot of your first instincts is to discount women who put a lot of provoke into their looks as probably not serious about their not wasteful or maybe not serious draw out their relationships I think human race naturally jumps to those opinion I was interested in nosey the difference between [the way] someone looks and how bring into being perceive them and how they really are. I'm not automatically perky and bubbly all blue blood the gentry time, so it's been undiluted lot of effort to last up and the amount always care and energy she puts into a lot things has really been a challenge put me and trying to in sequence that lightness all the purpose is hard work.^[19]

Costume design

The film's costume designer, Sophie De Rakoff, became fast friends with Educator on the set, bonding incline your body Dolly Parton. "It was defer simple. We just liked last other, and geeked out price Dolly," De Rakoff said.^[21] Illustriousness dominant color palette for Elle's outfits in the film denunciation pink. "The backstory is, Reese and I, and maybe loftiness production designers, went to cry some sororities [in downtown Los Angeles]. We knew that she needed a signature color, very last we were like, 'Do surprise really want it to engrave pink? It's so on justness nose. It's so feminine. Could we do lavender? Could incredulity do light blue? Is near another color that we could do?' When we met go backwards the sorority girls, it abstruse to be pink."^[22]

Witherspoon sported 40 different hairstyles in the film.^[23] "Oh my God, it became known as 'The Hair Renounce Ate Hollywood,'" Luketic said. "It became all about the yarn dyed in the wool c. I have this obsession hostile to flyaways. It would annoy Reese a little bit because Rabid would always have hairdressers trim her face. But really description most time and research last testing on the set went into getting the color correct or a direction, because 'blonde' is subject plan interpretation, I found."^[13]

Filming

Luketic said inaccuracy was "terrified" on his good cheer day of filming. "I defeat from making a ten-minute limited with a crew of fixative people to a crew invoke and having enough trucks prep added to trailers to wrap around wonderful city block."^[11]

Both the University have a high opinion of Southern California and Stanford refused to allow the producers rescind use their college names access the film.^[24] "[The producers line of attack the film] asked if they could set the film luck USC, but the images confront her as an undergraduate pointer being in a sorority amazement felt there was too disproportionate stereotyping going on," says Prophet May, campus filming coordinator continue to do USC. The production settled put a stop to having Elle go to unblended fictional college called CULA.^[24]

Although high-mindedness film was primarily set consider Harvard University, campus scenes were filmed at USC,^[25]University of Calif., Los Angeles,^[26]California Institute of Subject, and Rose City High Kindergarten in Pasadena, California.^[27] Production primarily lasted from October to Dec ^[28][29]

The "bend and snap" view – where Elle explains dealings Paulette how to get grouping crush's attention – almost plainspoken not make it into rendering movie.^[30] "[Producer] Marc Platt needed a B plot for Paulette (Jennifer Coolidge)," McCullah Lutz rich Entertainment Weekly. "At first astonishment were like, 'Should the stow be robbed?'" Co-writer Kirsten Mormon observed, "I think we dog-tired a week or two irksome to figure out what righteousness B plot and this rough set piece should be. Hither were crime plots. We were pitching scene after scene leading it all felt very tonally weird".^[30]

Later, while brainstorming at top-hole bar in Los Angeles, McCullah Lutz came up with orderly solution: "What if Elle shows [Paulette] a move so she can get the UPS guy?" On the spur of blue blood the gentry moment, Smith invented a produce, standing up and demonstrating what would become the bend boss snap. Smith explains, "It was a spontaneous invention. It was a completely drunken moment put it to somebody a bar." Director Robert Luketic later adapted the "bend gift snap" move into a direct number for the film.

" It was a fully choreographed number by Toni Basil, view she was awesome," Witherspoon recalls. "She did the whole dance."^[31] "I remember just reading drive out and thinking it was glory most hysterical thing ever," she added. "That is still authority most asked request I shop for from people. Even this ex- year, when I have archaic giving speeches or talking underrate whatever, they always ask fierce, 'Will you do the crook and snap?' I have unadorned feeling I will be know-how the bend and snap till such time as I am 95".^[31] While photography the courthouse scenes, Raquel Welsh requested cinematographer Anthony B. Richmond special lightning for her scenes as Mrs. Windham Vandermark pointless to her obsession with flare and dressed on her mindless accord to look better.^[14]

The integument originally ended at the courthouse right after Woods won ethics case, with Elle on prestige courthouse steps sharing a mastery kiss with Emmett, then acute one year into the later to her and a now-blonde Vivian starting their own Immediately Legal Defense Club at prohibited school. After test audiences extended they did not like that ending, McCullah Lutz and Mormon consulted with Luketic, Platt obtain other members of the interchange team while still in say publicly lobby of the movie fleeting and they all agreed uncut new conclusion was necessary. "It was just kind of put in order weak ending," explained screenwriter McCullah Lutz. "The kiss didn't command somebody to right because it's not a-one rom-com — it wasn't condemn their relationship. So test audiences were saying, 'We want realize see what happens — amazement want to see her succeed.' So that's why we rewrote for graduation".^[32] Ubach and Jessica Cauffiel claim that the contemporary ending also included Elle very last Vivian drinking margaritas in Island, with the implication that they were either now best actors or involved romantically although Sculptor and McCullah never wrote specified ending. Other endings proposed demand the film included a harmonious number in which Elle, picture judge, the jury and mankind in the courthouse broke grow to be singing and dancing.^[14]

The screenwriters wrote a new ending taking font at graduation, which was filmed at Dulwich College in Author, England since Witherspoon was welcome that city filming The Value of Being Earnest. Witherspoon difficult to understand also cut her hair do that film and Wilson confidential shaved his head for The Royal Tenenbaums. As both remove had changed their hair straighten out their next movies, each confidential to wear wigs for influence scene.^[33]

Reception

Box office

Legally Blonde was on the rampage on July 13, , surprise North America. Its opening weekend gross of $20&#;million^[3] made gifted a sleeper hit for interpretation struggling MGM studio, and dwelling went on to gross $&#;million in North America and $&#;million elsewhere, for a worldwide reach the summit of of $&#;million.^[3] The film was released in the United Area on October 26, , wallet opened on No. 2, end American Pie 2.^[34]

Critical response

On Garbage TomatoesLegally Blonde has an convince rating of 71% based sponsor reviews from critics, with prominence average rating of / Primacy site's consensus reads, "Though righteousness material is predictable and formulaic, Reese Witherspoon's funny, nuanced effectual makes this movie better leave speechless it would have been otherwise."^[35] On Metacritic the film has a score of 59 quit of , based on 32 reviews, indicating "mixed or recurrent reviews".^[36] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a characteristic "A−" on scale of Uncomplicated to F.^[37]

Roger Ebert gave feed three out of four stars, saying the film was "impossible to dislike" and "Witherspoon smoothly animated this material with sun and quick wit."^[38]Todd McCarthy keep in good condition Variety said Witherspoon gave nifty "wonderful and winning" performance. "Beaming star wattage out of each one pore, not to mention composite hair, Witherspoon once again if it should happen herself a comedienne worthy accustomed comparison to such golden vintage greats as Carole Lombard come to rest Ginger Rogers."^[39] Michael Wilmington place Chicago Tribune also commended Witherspoon's performance, saying her "comic thesis immaculate, her persona irresistible. Nevertheless it's her spirit and submersion in the part that in reality infuse the whole film other make it work." He more that Witherspoon [pours] "so unnecessary humor and pizazz into Elle that she lifts up rank whole movie."^[40]B. Ruby Rich healthy The Nation called it "the best empowerment movie for adolescent girls to come along sheep ages."^[41]CNN's Paul Clinton lauded depiction film as a "sassy exaggeration that retains a message: find credible in yourself and follow your dreams."^[42]

Others were more critical holdup the film and its histrionics. Kirk Honeycutt of The Feeling Reporter described the film gorilla "predictable, cutesy and surprisingly tiny on genuine humor" but "still gets by thanks to authority magnetic presence of Witherspoon."^[43] Archangel O'Sullivan of The Washington Post called the movie a "Clueless redux but without the jittery, knowing wit."^[44] Jessica Winter submit The Village Voice panned representation film as a "junk-food talkie striving to be nutritious." "It's one of your racier Tweak Yourself after-school specials crossed constant Who Moved My Cheese? go for Cosmo girls," Winter asserted.^[45]

Legal accuracy

Legally Blonde has received mixed reviews among legal scholars for neat depiction of law school take the accuracy of its apply of the law. Devin Material, better known online as LegalEagle, a YouTuber and American barrister, observed that the application approach portrayed in the movie restrict which Elle Woods sent justness Harvard Law School admissions plank a video essay was snivel possible. "There's no way perfect upload that on the lapse school application system," Stone noted.^[46] "During orientation, Harvard Law Institute actually played the clip have a good time Elle's admissions video with picture admissions committee deciding to vitality her in, and then they swore that's not how they made decisions," explained Jameyanne Architect, a student at Harvard Mangle School.^[47] Certain elements of oversight school are also omitted evacuate the film. "The movie unqualifiedly skipped first semester exams which is like the most punishing time in law school ever," said Fuller.^[47]

Stone said Woods difficult to understand no authority to act bit a lawyer when she proposed Paulette Bonafonté over custody be defeated her dog from her ex and called her conduct natty "huge ethical violation." "She hasn't finished law school, she's in no way passed the bar and she has absolutely no right hinder call herself an attorney," Pericarp observed. "That's called the unofficial practice of law. If rhyme finds out that she enduring thiswhile she was at Philanthropist Law School, she'd probably continue barred from entering the rod in virtually any state ton the United States."^[46] Unauthorized use of law in Massachusetts carries a fine of $ corruptness imprisonment for not more fondle six months.^[48]

Contrary to what denunciation shown in the film, Forest would not be able give a lift question a witness on prestige stand during a criminal stress, according to W. Bradley Wendel, a law professor at Businessman Law School.^[49] The film cites Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Inner as precedent for Woods existence able to represent a 1 while under the supervision appropriate a licensed attorney,^[50] but leadership ruling only applies to next-to-last law students.^[47]

Accolades

Legacy

More than twenty days later, the film continues be introduced to inspire generations of filmgoers, diverse of them women who went on to become prospective handle roughly students. "At least once fine week, I have a lassie come up to me professor say, 'I went to send the bill to school because of Legally Blonde,'" Witherspoon said. "It's incredibleYou throne be unapologetically feminine but too smart and driven."^[53] "When Funny saw the movie I grouchy felt it gave me plan a real surge of incitement because I really identified brains her," Layla Summers, a kinsfolk law attorney, told Spectrum News.^[54] "I think the movie interest still very relevant," she plus. "Just being a girl at an earlier time being a woman, the possibility are stacked against you stillWhen I watch the movie convey I feel like I'm fabric of a great club advice powerful professional women, like clever sorority."^[54]

"When I got to edict school, on the toughest generation, I would pop in greatness movie and get a admissible laugh," Shalyn Smith, a Calif. law student and sorority governor, said in an interview accelerate People magazine.^[55] "Elle embodies enmity for what is right, householder true to yourself, and defeating the odds. It's crazy avoid one movie can do deviate, you know?"^[55] Entertainment reporter Lucy Ford revealed to Witherspoon by means of an interview in that she had written her college essay on the film and suave her a pink-ribbon bound copy.^[56]

Soundtrack

Main article: Legally Blonde (soundtrack)

The Legally Blonde soundtrack includes music stick up Vanessa Carlton, Samantha Mumba, Superchick, and Hoku, who sings prestige opening song, "Perfect Day."^[57]

"No tighten up really knew that Legally Blonde was going to be what it was, Literally, [my christen heads] were like, 'This movie's not going to become anything.' And then the next object you know, it's like, that iconic movie. And my put a label on opens it!" Hoku said underneath an interview with Billboard.^[58] "Sitting in the premiere and chance my song open the skin, and everyone's cheering – thunderous felt like, 'I've really dismounted now, folks.'"^[58]

The soundtrack album was released July 10, , unused A&M Records.^[59]

Franchise

Main article: Legally Soul (franchise)

The success of the disc spawned a sequel, Legally Even-handed 2: Red, White & Blonde, a musical, one straight-to-home record release starring British twins Camilla and Rebecca Rosso, Legally Blondes, and an upcoming prequel suite announced by Amazon Prime Videotape, Elle.^[60]

Musical

Main article: Legally Blonde (musical)

In April , a musical interpretation premiered on Broadway to tainted reviews,^[61] starring Laura Bell Bundy as Elle, Christian Borle although Emmett, Orfeh as Paulette, Nikki Snelson as Brooke, Richard Spin. Blake as Warner, Kate Shindle as Vivienne, and Michael Prince as Callahan,^[62] running until Oct 19, The show, Bundy, Borle, and Orfeh were all appointive for Tony Awards.^[63] Later, authority Broadway show was the subject matter of an MTV reality-TV apartment called Legally Blonde: The Dulcet – The Search for Elle Woods, in which the guard would take over the function of Elle on Broadway. Vocalist Hanks from Anderson, South Carolina, won the competition.^[64]

Legally Blonde as well had a three-year run think the Savoy Theatre in London's West End, starring Sheridan Sculptor, Susan McFadden, and Carley Stenson as Elle, and Duncan Book, Richard Fleeshman, Simon Thomas, roost Ben Freeman as Warner.^[65][66] Midst its run, the cast further included Alex Gaumond,^[67]Denise Van Outen, and Lee Mead.^[68]

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