January 28: Some Like It Hot is previewed at the Bay Theatre in Pacific Palisades. No one laughs, except Steve Allen and a few friends invited to the screening.
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 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: 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 25: Marilyn sends a telegram to Darryl Zanuck saying she has received the script for Pink Tights: AM EXCEEDINGLY SORRY BUT I DO NOT LIKE IT. SINCERELY MARILYN MONROE. Marilyn has dinner in Wel...
January 24: Marilyn and Joe return to Los Angeles, and she finds a script of The Girl in Pink Tights that has been sent to her Doheny Drive apartment.
January 24: Gossip columnist Earl Wilson interviews Marilyn at the Sherry-Netherlands Hotel, dubbing her the Mmmmmmmm Girl.
January 23: DiMaggio drives Marilyn to Boston to meet with Henry Rosenfeld, a dress manufacturer and potential investor in Marilyn Monroe Productions. Rosenfeld declines to become a major contributor,...
January 20: Monroe divorces Miller in Juarez, Mexico, on the day JFK takes the oath of office.
January 20: Marilyn fails to return to the studio on the day Fox has stipulated.
January 19: Joe DiMaggio and photographer Sam Shaw help Marilyn move into the Gladstone Hotel on East 52nd Street near Park Avenue.
January 18: Filming of Let’s Make Love resumes. Stern (Germany) shows Marilyn, all in black, during a number from Let’s Make Love.
January 16: Time publishes Winner, an account of how Marilyn got the best of Fox in contract negotiations.
January 15: Marilyn flies to New York, and Fox suspends her again. Joe DiMaggio also flies to New York.
January 15: Marilyn and Joe eat dinner at the Le Pavilion restaurant, and then attend the closing night performance of The Hostage at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre.
January 15: Fox holds a press party for Yves Montand, who has been cast (at Arthur Miller’s suggestion) to replace Gregory Peck in Let’s Make Love. Marilyn seems in better health and ready to work. Gr...
January 13: Marilyn tells her agents she will not do The Blue Angel, noting that Fox had begun to work on the picture after the deadline in her contract specifying start of production for a new film.
In Come Next Spring (March 9, 1956) and Goodbye, My Lady (May 12, 1956) Brennan was able to rise above the pedestrian roles that followed Bad Day at Black Rock by perfecting the persona of the small t...
February 9: Marilyn arrives at 6:00 p.m. for the photo shoot with Rizzo and apologizes, pleading extreme fatigue. Another appointment is scheduled for the next day.
February 22: Pat Newcomb arranges a Mexico City press conference. Wearing a green Pucci dress and green mull (cotton) scarf, she provides a witty performance while sipping champagne.