January 26: Marilyn is invited to attend the Foreign Press Association’s First Annual International Film Festival at the Club Del Mar in Santa Monica and creates a sensation by wearing an Idaho potato...
January 26: The Independent Theater Owners of Arkansas confer on Marilyn the State’s Most Popular Movie Actress award.
January 26: The Women’s Division of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York presents Marilyn with a citation, In recognition of her unique ability to bring pleasure to millions of American...
January 26: The studio suspends Marilyn again.
January 28: Marilyn arrives in San Francisco the day before embarking for Japan, where DiMaggio has been invited to make appearances. She breaks her thumb, although a DiMaggio relative said Joe was re...
January 28: Marilyn attends a March of Dimes fashion show at the Waldorf Astoria, held to benefit children with polio. She is photoraphed with several children, smiling and talking with them, as well...
June 14: Marilyn does a sound test with Robert Wagner, who stars with her in Let’s Make It Legal.
June 15: Norma Jeane writes to Grace McKee Goddard, Of course I know that if it hadn’t been for you we might not have never been married and I know I owe you a lot for that fact alone, besides countle...
June 20: Spyros Skouras, Fox’s president, meets with Marilyn and Miller to advise the playwright to cooperate with HUAC. Miller refuses, and Marilyn admires his integrity and courage.
June 21: Marilyn consults with her attorney, Aaron Frosch, and Lee Strasberg about Rain.
June 23: Reporters stake out Marilyn’s apartment, responding to rumors that she and Miller will marry that night.
June 24: Marilyn appears at the studio to watch her scenes with Montand. John Huston leaves New York to look at locations in Nevada for The Misfits.
June 26: David Conover photographs Norma Jeane for Yank magazine.
June 27: Sidney Fields is the first columnist to write about Marilyn, commenting in the New York Mirror: Marilyn is a very lovely and relatively unknown movie actress. But give her time; you will hear...
June 3: Life publishes Unlikely Pair Make Great Match.
Just then I felt I must confront the question of whether I was to do Michael’s biography as well as Jill’s. From our first meeting, Julie had been urging me to do so, to make sure I got my place in li...
Like Drums Across the River, Bad Day at Black Rock (January 7, 1955), is a revisionist work—this time examining the seamy side, the racism and thuggery—of postwar America. Brennan, looking much slimme...
March 1: Marilyn makes an appointment at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, complaining of appendicitis, but director Howard Hawks insists that she return to the set of Monkey Business, and her operation is...
March 2: Johnny Hyde has Marilyn sign with the William Morris agency. Johnny Hyde secures a walk-on part for Marilyn in Love Happy, a Marx Brothers movie. To her line, Men keep following me, Groucho,...
March 30: Marilyn approves of Johnson’s script.
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