Of an entirely different order is Brennan’s magnificent performance as Pop Gruber, an aging grifter in Nobody Lives Forever (November 1, 1946), starring John Garfield as a con man, Nick Blake, who eve...
Obviously fond of Jill, Paul remembered a time they were all together in a car arguing, and Jill whispered in Paul’s ear, Michael thinks he can win an argument by how loud he shouts.
ON APRIL 27, 1970, WALTER BRENNAN WAS INDUCTED INTO THE HALL of Great Western Actors at the Cowboy Hall of Fame’s annual awards ceremony in Oklahoma City. After listening to several speakers lavish pr...
Never meant to be more than a B picture entertainment produced on the Universal International backlot and at the Iverson Ranch (a five-hundred-acre family property often used for location shoots), it...
Michael was the male partner in a dance, but he did not know how to lead. Or rather, he led by default, since Jill did not challenge his authority. He simply filled a vacuum. As a political man, he wo...
May 9: The London tabloid Empire News publishes Marilyn’s account via Ben Hecht of child abuse. What happened exactly is not clear, although apparently she was fondled, and then stammered when she tri...
May 5: At 5:00 a.m., Marilyn awakes with chills and sheets drenched in perspiration. Her fever is again 101 degrees, and her vision is blurred. Marilyn hires a bicycle at the cost of eighteen dollars...
May 4: Hedda Hopper publishes The Blowtorch Blonde in the Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine: Marilyn Monroe who has zoomed to stardom after a three-year stretch as a cheesecake queen is easily the most...
May 30: Shooting is on hiatus for Memorial Day. Marilyn stays home working on a watercolor of a red rose she wants to present to President Kennedy for his forty-fifth birthday.
March 6: Emmeline Snively, head of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, sends Norma Jeane to Joseph Jasgur for test shots. In The Birth of Marilyn, Jeannie Sakol reports Jasgur’s first impressions: What he...
March 30: Marilyn approves of Johnson’s script.
June 23: Reporters stake out Marilyn’s apartment, responding to rumors that she and Miller will marry that night.
June 21: Marilyn consults with her attorney, Aaron Frosch, and Lee Strasberg about Rain.
June 15: Norma Jeane writes to Grace McKee Goddard, Of course I know that if it hadn’t been for you we might not have never been married and I know I owe you a lot for that fact alone, besides countle...
June 14: Marilyn does a sound test with Robert Wagner, who stars with her in Let’s Make It Legal.
January 16: Dangerous Years is previewed.
For all Cooper’s fame and success, he was as insecure as anyone in Hollywood, where you were judged not by your body of work but by what you had done lately. He was a contract player, part of a studio...
February 9: Marilyn’s institutionalization is reported in the press. She is permitted a call to Joe DiMaggio.
February 9: In the company of Laurence Olivier, Marilyn calls a press conference in the Terrace Room of the Plaza Hotel to announce their joint project, The Sleeping Prince (later titled The Prince an...
February 5: The Los Angeles Herald and Express publishes Studios Push Beauties in Glamor Derby, subtitled All Want Queen Marilyn’s Crown. Marilyn is called Fox’s M-bomb.