Ben’s blondes

By Patrick Day, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer and Denise Martin, Special to The Times

Blondes. Alfred Hitchcock was renowned for casting them and Rod Stewart sang about them. Aaron Sorkin had a penchant for featuring conservative blondes on “The West Wing” and “Studio 60” and Marilyn Monroe once starred in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” But outside of Hugh Hefner and his three golden-haired girlfriends on “The Girls Next Door,” Hollywood hasn’t been praising blondes a whole lot lately.

Into the breach rides Ben Stiller. The “Heartbreak Kid” star has greatly expanded his film resume in the past 15 years, and a huge number of those films have seen him sharing the screen with blondes of all sorts. He likes them so much, he even married one, Christine Taylor.

Here’s a run-down of Ben’s other blondes:  (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)