Carl Rollyson Quote
May 28: Shooting begins on There’s No Business Like Show Business. Marilyn’s director, Walter Lang, does not seem to know how to handle her. Donald O’Connor, Marilyn’s love interest in the film, recalls that the director was afraid to ask her to take her shoes off in a scene because her bouffant hairdo and high heels made her look taller than O’Connor. Lang wants the actor to stand on an apple box. O’Connor goes to Marilyn and tells her, [T]his idiot’s afraid to ask you to take off your shoes, but I’d feel very strange working with you, standing on an apple box. Marilyn says, Oh Christ, the guy’s nuts, kicks off her shoes, and everything was fine, according to O’Connor.
Carl Rollyson
May 28: Shooting begins on There’s No Business Like Show Business. Marilyn’s director, Walter Lang, does not seem to know how to handle her. Donald O’Connor, Marilyn’s love interest in the film, recalls that the director was afraid to ask her to take her shoes off in a scene because her bouffant hairdo and high heels made her look taller than O’Connor. Lang wants the actor to stand on an apple box. O’Connor goes to Marilyn and tells her, [T]his idiot’s afraid to ask you to take off your shoes, but I’d feel very strange working with you, standing on an apple box. Marilyn says, Oh Christ, the guy’s nuts, kicks off her shoes, and everything was fine, according to O’Connor.
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Carl E. Rollyson is an American biographer and professor of journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York.