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. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Dangerous...
PART III The bride was on time. On January 14, 1954, at one o’clock, Marilyn Monroe, twenty-seven years old, married Joe DiMaggio, thirty-nine, in the San Francisco City Hall. The ceremony, which lasted all of three minutes, was performed by Municipal Court Judge Charles Peery. The Los...
PART II January 5, 1950 Shooting of The Fireball, in which she plays Polly, a roller-skating groupie, begins. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Publicity still for The Asphalt Jungle, 1950, probably photographed by Frank Powolny. The Asphalt Jungle, directed by John Huston, piqued the curiosity of...
Broadway’s curtain of anonymity drops over Marilyn. Minus make-up, she passes for another stage-struck kid . . . Under the glare of floodlights The Legend of Monroe blossoms like a blast of heady perfume but The Smoldering Siren is only a pose, a part she...
The most important things Marilyn’s got, it took a brain to get. And from now on, she’s not letting anyone forget It....
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...
There’s the case of the calendar nude—and the riddle of my plunging necklines. These are the things that set the critics on my trail and raise the question . . ....
But don’t feel sorry for Marilyn Monroe—unless you’re the kind who weeps over Cleopatra, and pities a girl who has so much glamor that it hurts....
Everyone dies alone. Everyone thrashes alone in the darkness until even the thrashing stops and all there is is darkness. For each his own separate darkness. But she died alone as only crippled men in charity wards die, whose wives and friends and children are...
Why did she do it? Is publicity—bold and blatant publicity—all that’s left of Marilyn’s career? At 36—without a husband, a job or faith in herself—what will happen to Marilyn next?...