February 10: In a four-hour afternoon shoot, Rizzo captures Marilyn in close-up and in various positions on a lounger and at the edge of her Brentwood home pool. He later said she seemed immensely sad...
February 10: The press quotes Wilder’s vow never to do a film with Marilyn again. Marilyn and Miller attend a performance of Macbeth at the New York Metropolitan Opera. She is photographed autographin...
February 11: Marilyn shows up for work, but is sent home because she seems unable to proceed.
February 13: Marilyn attends the premiere of Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Romeo and Juliet at Manhattan’s City Center. She attends a party afterward organized by Lee Strasberg. Marilyn arrives ho...
February 14: Chuck Moran sends Norma Jeane a Valentine’s Day card.
February 14: Marilyn and Miller send Steffi Sidney (Sidney Skolsky’s daughter) a wedding present: a sterling silver cigarette box with the inscription For this wonderful day—affectionately, Marilyn an...
February 15: De Post (Belgium) puts a very business-like Marilyn, dressed in a black suit, on its cover.
February 16: Gladys confirms to Norma Jeane that Stanley Gifford is her father. Norma Jeane writes to Grace that she plans to visit Gifford, who she assumes will be pleased to see her. It’s something...
February 16: Marilyn flies to Seoul, South Korea, to begin entertaining the troops at ten different sites. Her outfit for her performances includes a skin-tight, low-cut, plum-colored crepe cocktail d...
February 23: Marilyn applies to legally change her name to Marilyn Monroe.
February 27: Marlon Brando sends Marilyn an encouraging telegram, saying, in part, [D]on’t be afraid of being afraid. It can only help. Relax and enjoy it. I send you my thoughts and my warmest affect...
February 27: Muncher Illustrierte (Germany) displays Marilyn and Jane Russell in showgirl costumes, holding black top hats above their heads.
Here is Johnson’s comment on writers’ lives in his exculpatory biography of his friend, the rogue poet Richard Savage: The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been very often no less rema...
How did Brennan achieve this mythic status, this power over not just audiences but also his fellow actors? Today, the question remains unanswered, and this figure key to understanding the power of Hol...
I noticed that he wasn’t looking at me while we talked. After we finished the take, I asked him where he’d been looking. Your ear, he replied. Why? I asked in surprise. Because that way more of my fac...
If Sam Goldwyn read the reviews of Dakota, he might have taken some satisfaction in Walter Brennan’s critical drubbing. Walter had decided not to renew his contract with the producer. The actor, mimic...
In a memo dated April 22, 1942, concerning a script conference about Maryland, Darryl Zanuck rejected the idea of making a radical change in Brennan’s screen persona. Brennan simply could not be prese...
In the only picture Brennan ever did for the legendary director John Ford, the character actor worked well beside Ford stalwarts such as Ward Bond, playing one of Earp’s brothers. Indeed, what is most...
It was the time Tony Benn and Denis Healey were competing for the deputy leadership of the Labour Party. I was pretty leftwing, so was Jill Tweedie and there was this huge feeling that Tony Benn was t...
June 7: Norma Jeane leaves the Los Angeles Orphans Home to live with Grace and her husband, Doc Goddard, at 6707 Odessa Avenue in Van Nuys. Norma Jeane hears on the radio that Jean Harlow has died. A...
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