Bertice Reading recorded the song in 1979.Carol Channing recorded the song again in 1974 for the musical Lorelei, a revised version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.Julie London recorded the song in 1961.Della Reese recorded the song in 1960, for her album Cha Cha Cha.Lena Horne recorded the song in 1958, for her album Give the Lady What She Wants.Ethel Merman recorded the song in 1950.And the potentially anachronistic line "help you at the Automat" was altered in the Luhrmann film to "help you feed your pussycat." Additionally, a lyrical snippet from Madonna's song " Material Girl" was worked into this adaptation of the song. Black Starr & Frost-Gorham was known by that name only after 1925, but instead of using their 1875-1925 name of " Black Starr & Frost", their name was replaced in the Luhrmann film by nonsense words (understood by many listeners as "Ross Cole " in the 2002 DVD release, the words printed in the text captioning are "Black Star, Roscor"). For example, it does not include the name Harry Winston in the chant of famous jewelers rather, Moulin Rouge founder Charles Zidler's name was changed to Harold in the film, so his name replaces Winston's in the song as "Harry Zidler". Although it consists almost entirely of an adaptation of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", this version differs from the lyrics in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in several ways. This film version is technically a musical adaptation that director Baz Luhrmann titled " Sparkling Diamonds".
The song is also featured in the 2001 film Moulin Rouge!, in which it is sung principally by Nicole Kidman in the role of Satine, the (fictional) star performer of the famous Moulin Rouge nightclub in Paris, at the turn of the 20th century. Monroe's vocals can also be heard in the background throughout the song. The song was sampled by Megan Thee Stallion and Normani in 2020 for " Diamonds", with the music video featuring a set and costumes evoking Monroe's film performance. The music video for Madonna's " Material Girl" specifically employs a similar set and costumes for the singer and her male dancers. Monroe's performance has been referenced by entertainers ranging from Madonna and Kylie Minogue to Geri Halliwell and Anna Nicole Smith.
Monroe's rendition of the song is considered an iconic performance and was ranked the 12th best film song of the century by the American Film Institute. The public finally saw the CinemaScope version ten years later when it closed Fox's documentary tribute to Marilyn, but this has not been released on DVD or VHS. Zanuck told Daily Variety that it only took 3 + 1⁄ 2 hours to shoot the number in CinemaScope versus four days for the original film version. The number was later re-shot in CinemaScope, to be used as part of a CinemaScope demonstration held on the Fox lot in March 1953. However, a 2007 article in The New York Times recounting the career of famous ghost singer Marni Nixon claims Nixon dubbed the phrase "These rocks don't lose their shape." George Chakiris can be spotted as a member of the admiring male chorus. The American Film Institute, TCM, and a biography of director Howard Hawks state the only help she had was for the brief high-pitched introduction to the song (usually not included in singles), which was sung by Gloria Wood. Most of the song in the film is Monroe's own voice and sources differ on how much help she had. In a later scene, Jane Russell, who played opposite Monroe, sang "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in court, while pretending to be Lorelei. Diamonds are an element in another story line in the film, in which Lorelei is given a diamond tiara by the mine owner, in gratitude for her recovering the photographs. Her fiancé arrives at the cabaret to see her perform this song, about exploiting men for riches. He is informed of compromising pictures taken with a British diamond mine owner and cancels her letter of credit before she arrives in France, requiring her to work in a nightclub to survive. Monroe's character, Lorelei Lee, has been followed on a transatlantic ocean liner by a detective hired by her fiancé's father, who wants assurance that she is not marrying purely for money. The song is perhaps most famously performed by American actress and singer Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Marilyn Monroe version " Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"
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