She was twelve years old. And she had been awake all night pondering her future.
Ever since she was a very little girl, friends of her daddy used to pick her up on their laps—and say:
“And what are you going to be when you grow up?”...
It was a night in 1951. Jacqueline Bouvier was twenty-one. She lived in Washington, D. C., and worked as a reporter-photographer on the Times-Herald. She had the reputation of being one of the prettiest, quietest and best-dressed young women in the capital, and (because of her job,...
Pat Ryan was seventeen, the daughter of a Nevada miner, when she went to Hollywood. She was full of hope and dreams. She stayed for a month. It was a disillusioning experience. She got one job, as a walk-on in a picture called Becky Sharp. She...
Marilyn Monroe on the set of Scudda Hoo!
1- SCUDDA HOO! SCUDDA HAY!
20th Century-Fox, 1948. Produced by Walter Morosco; directed by E. Hugh Herbert. Cast: June Haver, Lon McCallister. A small part for Marilyn, rowing a boat.
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Dangerous...
PART IV
On June 20, 1956, the New York Post ran the story of the imminent marriage between Marilyn and Arthur Miller. The civil ceremony was on June 29, followed by the wedding according to Jewish ritual on July 1, for which Marilyn had converted to...
Someday, when all the press clippings in Hollywood have been counted, you can make an almost cinch bet that the star with the biggest stack in the bunch will be none other than that perennial sampling of pure sex-appeal—Jayne Mansfield. A cover girl whose uncovered...
More than two years after Marilyn Monroe’s death, her millions of fans still wonder what drove her to take her own life. Here is a searching and intimate study of the fatal forces she had struggled against since childhood...