Brennan was as wily as many of the characters he played, which meant he finessed the constraints of the studio system, mocked studio bosses—even playing tricks on them—and took possession of his roles...
Brennan’s best small role is in Fritz Lang’s Fury (May 29, 1936), another MGM production. Brennan plays Bugs Meyers, a deputy who locks up Joe Wilson (Spencer Tracy), falsely accused of murder, and is...
Brennan’s contribution to The Wedding Night (March 8, 1935), starring Gary Cooper and Anna Sten—the Russian beauty Samuel Goldwyn was promoting as the next European import to rival Greta Garbo and Mar...
By 1950, Brennan was settling into a schedule that saw him making three films a year, giving him more time on his ranch and with a new business he started in Joseph, a 487-seat movie theater that open...
By way of preparing me for a visit to Paul Foot, Michael told me a story about the time Paul, then 14 and a public school boy, visited Jill and Michael at the Abbey Road home. He was shocked that Jill...
Embarking on each new biography is like beginning the world anew, establishing—once again—a network of contacts and conspirators, and inciting the enmity of countless cronies and court whores who do t...
February 14: Tempo features Marilyn in a swimsuit she wore in We’re Not Married. Here she stands with her arms resting on a heart (almost as large as she is) with a cupid’s arrow running downward and...
February 15: Inez Melson, Marilyn’s business manager, writes a memo about her conversation with Jo Brooks regarding Marilyn’s offer to host a party for Ella Fitzgerald, but Fitzgerald’s opening occurs...
February 17: Arthur Miller marries Inge Morath.
February 17: Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times reports: On two occasions troops rioted wildly and behaved like bobby-soxers in Times Square, not like soldiers proud of their uniform.
February 17: Simone Signoret spends the night telling Marilyn about film work in France, and Marilyn behaves like a kid who’s delaying the moment for lights out, Signoret recalls in a memoir.
February 17: With Maureen Stapleton, Marilyn performs a scene from Anna Christie at the Actors Studio to a round of applause, but she doubts she has given a good performance. Afterwards she suffers fr...
February 18: A federal grand jury indicts Arthur Miller on two counts of contempt of Congress. Each count could mean up to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine. At Doctor’s Hospital, Marilyn begins tr...
February 19: Marilyn visits Joe DiMaggio in Fort Lauderdale.
February 20: Marilyn is crowned California Artichoke Queen in Salinas, California. Holiday features Marilyn poolside in swimsuits.
February 21: Cinemonde (France) shows a heavier Marilyn (during the Some Like It Hot period) wearing a strapless back dress, with a v-shaped front that shows off her cleavage and long white gloves.
February 21: Joe DiMaggio escorts Marilyn to the airport for her flight from Miami to Mexico. She flies to Mexico with Pat Newcomb and her staff on a shopping expedition to furnish her new hacienda-st...
February 21: Marilyn arrives on the set at 10:30 a.m. Academy Award nominations have just been announced, but her performance in Some Like It Hot has not been acknowledged. Nevertheless, Marilyn happi...
February 21: Revue (Germany) puts John Florea’s photograph on its cover, showing a deeply tanned Marilyn wearing jeweled earrings and a bracelet, a jewel on the waistband of her elegantly-patterned li...
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.
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