I’m amused by the fact Anita Ekberg had to go to Italy to prove she was a good actress, and Sophia Loren had to come to Hollywood to prove she wasn’t. . . . Did you notice that Tony Curtis wore his made-to- order Italian...
To the world she is a daringly dressed, glamorous blonde. But alone, stripped of her fabulous masquerade, she’s an uncertain woman haunted by childhood fears...
“A brilliant comedienne” was Laurence Olivier's assessment of his costar Marilyn Monroe before they began filming The Prince and the Showgirl in London in 1956....
Emmeline Snively, who ran the modeling agency that employed Norma Jeane Dougherty, commented years later that girls would often ask her how they could be more like the woman who had become Marilyn Monroe....