February 5: Marilyn visits the Tokyo Army Hospital.
Did these two actors, both quite conservative, see the parallels between Norton and studio moguls like Sam Goldwyn? Did Norton’s private police force suggest to these men who began as extras the incip...
We had a lengthy discussion of the difficulties I had had working on other biographies and the efforts made by Martha Gellhorn, Susan Sontag and others to prevent publication. Gellhorn’s representativ...
January 16: Fox announces shooting of Something’s Got to Give will not begin until March 15.
February 5: Marilyn is photographed in a two-shot with Carson McCullers, kissing her at McCullers’s home in Nyack, New York, and later with McCullers and Isak Dinesen, with the threesome seated and lo...
February 24: Marilyn and Joe return to the mainland.
The real acting parts go to the character actors. —DANA ANDREWS
March 30: Marilyn approves of Johnson’s script.
June 25: Mickey Rudin warns Marilyn about expenditures for wardrobe, hairdressing, makeup, drugs, and the coaching services of Paula Strasberg—all of which threaten to exhaust the $13,000 remaining in...
January 26: The studio suspends Marilyn again.
January 20: Marilyn meets with Fox producer Henry T. Weinstein. Marilyn meets with the visiting Carl Sandburg, who demonstrates—holding books over their heads—a series of exercises intended to allevia...
January 16: Fox lifts Marilyn’s suspension.
January 16: Dangerous Years is previewed.
In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson argues that Brennan should have won awards for even better performances in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red Rive...
I suddenly asked him, Why do you think you lost the election in 55? A long silence ensued. Not quite sure, he replied tersely several minutes later. Surely he lost because his views were out of sync w...
I often thought of Boswell and Johnson during my stays with Michael Foot. In Michael’s company, I was very much a Boswell, keen to get the great man to talk. I recorded everything, compiling a hundred...
February 27: Pre-production work begins on Bus Stop.
February 17: Arthur Miller marries Inge Morath.
February 10: Norma Jeane sells her white piano to Ana Lower.
But the Butler-Brennan collaboration splendidly informs The Prince and the Pirate, a Samuel Goldwyn million-dollar Technicolor production that spoofs the swashbuckling pictures of the 1930s that made...