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Celebrity detection is not difficult here. Felicia Lisle, a beautiful British actress who wins an Oscar just before World War II playing a Southern belle in Hollywood's grandest period extravaganza, sounds a lot like Vivien Leigh. And her lover and frequent co-star, the great Shakespearean actor Sir Robert Vane, would need no letter of introduction to Laurence Olivier. Do we recognize bits of the brassy showman Billy Rose? Is that lovable, tormented, red-haired American comedian a scrap of Danny Kaye? Yoo-hoo, Sir Ralph...
...Washington for President Kennedy's birthday party. As shooting fell further and further behind schedule, Fox executives, already reeling from budget overruns on the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton extravaganza Cleopatra, fired her and sued for breach of contract. But they quietly hired her back weeks later when co-star Dean Martin, out of loyalty to Monroe, refused to work with the actress chosen to replace her, Lee Remick. Monroe died before filming could resume...
...array of people who took part in the filming, from producer Henry Weinstein to the former child actors who played Monroe's children. Wonderful nuggets of Marilyniana emerge. Her insecurities led Monroe to demand that a blond extra be tossed off the set and later to complain that co-star Cyd Charisse was padding her bra. When the Shah of Iran visited the Fox lot, Monroe refused to meet him until she found out Iran's position on Israel...
...lost her figure early and settled into imperious-dowager parts. Alcohol served as consolation. She and her co-star once tried to alternate boozy evenings. When Ethel's memory failed, he covered for her; when he forgot his lines, she proceeded glibly, "I know what I would say in your position," and delivered his reply. One night when both were drunk, the voice of the prompter filled the air. "We know the line," Ethel growled. "We want to know who says...
Elvis Presley STAY AWAY, JOE. Among the King's lazy epics, this 1968 flick is notable for the way Presley and co-star Burgess Meredith impersonate Native Americans as manic subhumans...