June 17: A letter from Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison (probably written by John F. Wharton) suggests that an article in Motion Picture by Hedda Hopper is libelous, according to Sam Silverman,...
June 18: A rejuvenated Marilyn resumes plans for designing and decorating her Mexican-style home, accepting the first shipment of furniture from Mexico. June 18–19: Realizing its mistake in firing Mar...
June 1: Tuesday, 9:30 a.m., Norma Jeane Mortensen is born at the Los Angeles General Hospital, delivered by Dr. Herman M. Beerman. The birth certificate misspells her last name as Mortenson. The fathe...
June 22: Life publishes They Fired Marilyn: Her Dip Lives On, photographs of her nude swimming scene for Something’s Got to Give.
June 28: Marilyn, in pain, is hospitalized for gallbladder surgery.
June 2: Filming of Niagara begins in Buffalo, with Marilyn playing Rose Loomis, the femme fatale murdered by her co-star, Joseph Cotten. Marilyn stays at the General Brock Hotel in Niagara Falls. Jose...
June 6: In a Los Angeles Daily News column, Ezra Goodman identifies Marilyn as a rising new talent. June
June 8: The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) serves Miller with a subpoena to testify on June 14 in Washington, D.C. The committee agrees to delay the hearing until June 21, so that Mi...
On an outdoor set, he watched a donkey braying at all the wrong moments, angering the sound technicians, who could not get the animal to perform on cue. (Walter loved to tell this story, and of course...
A Private Life of Michael Foot is an effort to show how a biographer struggles to tell his own story, even as family and friends cherish differing narratives about that same subject.
A letter from Brian Brivati, Gaitskill’s biographer, led Michael to describe an incident at Porto Fino. On holiday there, Michael and Jill ran into Gaitskill, who was accompanied by one of Michael fri...
A perkier bit at the beginning of a Three Stooges comedy, Restless Knights (February 20, 1935), has Brennan playing their father, decked out in a large night cap and a fake white beard, lying on his d...
Although Grandpa hits on the blonde next door, he does it with such charm and perkiness that Brennan gets away with playing what is essentially a dirty old man part. It is worth watching the movie to...
Anyone coming from a fresh viewing of Barbary Coast will notice that Walter Brennan cleans up very well. No trace of Old Atrocity is visible in one of Come and Get It’s first scenes, in which the wiry...
April 19: Norma Jeane attends a picnic at Balboa Park with her fellow workers. Photographs show her with long curled hair, standing and sitting in the center of a lineup with four other women, posing...
April 21: A Ticket to Tomahawk is released. Marilyn plays Clara, one of four showgirls. She makes four appearances (with dialogue) in group scenes and musical numbers.
As much as most kids growing up I liked digging for buried treasure, and when there was no buried treasure to be found, I buried some myself for later discovery. I think of my subjects the same way: t...
Brennan almost never accepted the clothes that studios designed for his parts. He called himself a dirty actor, by which he meant that the grungy duds he wore on-screen were his own. Brennan had to sm...
Brennan had the best lines in the script. Dispensing justice from his saloon bar, he declares, Don’t spill none of that liquor, Son. It eats right into the bar.
Character actor Ernest Borgnine told a story about Walter Brennan that is typical of the man and his professionalism. Relatively new to motion pictures, but with a burgeoning reputation as an actor, B...
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