Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Montgomery Presents, Janice Rule proved movingly simple as an adolescent who found death as well as love with a hoodlum; on Philco TV Playhouse, Eva Marie Saint was convincing as another tortured girl who finally married a man old enough to be her father; on Lux Video Theater, Marilyn Erskine brought surprising authority to the role of self-conscious Catherine Sloper in The Heiress. The dozen male actors had a fine time on Studio One's Twelve Angry Men. The play, by Reginald Rose, started out with an old idea (what happens in a jury room) but turned...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). The Heiress, with Vincent Price, Marilyn Erskine...
...hour after the start, Winnie turned back, having lost her escort boat in the darkness. Through the long night, Florence and little Marilyn churned along, against choppy waves. The youngster was frightened. Once an eel fastened onto her leg, but she kicked it off. By morning, Marilyn was weary, and badly in need of a mental lift. Then she heard that the great Florence Chadwick had given up, sickened by oil slicks and rough water. Marilyn plowed on. Winds blew her off course, but she fought back...
Radio stations began broadcasting bulletins on Marilyn's progress; newspapers published extras. The C.N.E. management, in some embarrassment, hastily announced that it would pay a full $10,000 to Marilyn if she finished. Other gifts poured...
...Marilyn was barely moving. Once she stopped, dipped under water three times, but kept going. By 8 p.m. the broad waterfront ahead of Marilyn was jammed with some 250,000 cheering people. To roars that she could not hear and salvos of rockets that she could not see, Marilyn touched the sea wall after nearly 21 hours in the water...