Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seven Year Itch (Feldman Group Productions; 20th Century-Fox) has been hawked across the nation with one of the most teasing promotional campaigns in movie history, culminating last week in a four-story cardboard model of Marilyn Monroe simpering prettily at Times Square while her skirts are being blown up around her hips...
...disappointment-for the screen version of Itch has been thoroughly laundered to win approval from the Production Code and the Legion of Decency. In the hit Broadway play, it was fairly clear that Summer Bachelor Tom Ewell went to bed with his pretty neighbor; in the film, undulating Marilyn spends the night with him, but, while she slumbers, Ewell chastely passes the wee hours wrapping up a kayak paddle for mailing to his vacationing...
...wanting to marry her. Ewell is already equipped with a vivid, Mittylike imagination (he daydreams that his wife's girl friend, his secretary and a beautiful nurse all try unsuccessfully to seduce him), and he is swept by alternate tides of temptation and remorse as Neighbor Marilyn gambols about his apartment in a series of elaborate costume changes, each more inviting than the last. The film ends as he flees New York with virtue intact but imagination hopelessly ravaged...
...governor." In 1924, as a promising young lawyer and the proprietor of a Stutz Bearcat, Goodie met Arvilla Cooley, a dazzling blonde, at a dinner dance in Santa Monica. A year later they were married, and in due course Goodie became the doting father of two more dazzling blondes, Marilyn and Carolyn. Goodie, a mellow and indulgent parent, was surprised when he occasionally struck flint in his daughters' dispositions. When Carolyn was a student at U.S.C., he was curious to know why she had not joined a sorority. "Unlike you, Father," retorted Carolyn, "I feel no need for mass...
...most fun we would have," reports Marilyn (now the wife of Los Angeles Attorney Robert Eaton), "was peeking into his bedroom at night when he was getting ready for a speaking engagement...