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Word: marilyn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter battle was over. Marilyn Monroe, a 5 ft. 5½ in. blonde weighing in at 118 alluringly distributed pounds, had brought to its knees mighty 20th Century-Fox, one of Hollywood's biggest corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Winner | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...came to a head a year ago. Fox wanted to type Marilyn once again as an emptyheaded, wriggle-hipped blonde in How to Be Very, Very Popular. Complaining that she was being miscast, and could fill a dramatic role as well as a satin sheath, Marilyn walked out. Fox promptly took her off the payroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Winner | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...Manhattan flounced Marilyn. She incorporated herself while skeptics snickered. She studied "to improve myself" under Director Lee Strasberg at Manhattan's Actors' Studio. She caused near-riots when she appeared at Broadway openings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Winner | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...help ballyhoo a $50-a-plate benefit for Manhattan's nonprofit Actors' Studio. Cinemactor Marlon Brando, a Studio alumnus, and Hollywood Expatriate Marilyn Monroe, presently a Studio "observer," got together to make an unlikely combination that could be a hilarious bonanza at the box office. Features of next month's Studio soiree: legerdemain by Actor Orson Welles, risque-poetry reading by Playwright Tennessee Williams, "after-midnight" songs by Italy's Cinemactress Anna Magnani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m.. CBS). Jack Benny, with Frankie Laine. Gracie Allen, Marilyn Maxwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Nov. 7, 1955 | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

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