Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Billing. What lifts the film above the commonplace is its star, Marilyn Monroe, who is an inexpert actress but a talented woman. She is a saucy, hip-swinging 5 ft. 5½-in. personality who has brought back to the movies the kind of unbridled sex appeal that has been missing since the days of Clara Bow and Jean Harlow. The trademarks of Marilyn's blonde allure (Rust 37 in., hips 37 in., waist 24 in.) are her moist, half-closed eyes and moist, half-opened mouth. She is a movie pressagent's dream...
...commercials and "good, clean, nauseating fun"; a flouncy blonde (Zsa Zsa Gabor) who is trying to dig all the gold she can from her Texas-tycoon husband (Louis Calhern); a laconic Long Island couple (Paul Douglas and Eve Arden) who communicate with each other only in monosyllables; Mrs. Mississippi (Marilyn Monroe), a bathing-beauty contest winner, and her baby-tending husband (David Wayne); a G.I. (Eddie Bracken) from Richmond, Va. who frantically tries to remarry his expectant wife (Mitzi Gaynor) just as he is about to be shipped overseas...
Lush Cinemactress Marilyn (Clash by Night) Monroe played an indignant role in a Los Angeles courtroom as the state's star witness against two men charged with using Marilyn's name on letters hawking nude photographs of her "in every pose imaginable." Posing prettily, the onetime undraped calendar model said "no" a dozen times, thus denied any knowledge of the pornographic racket. As she explained demurely, "the pictures are of somebody else...
Dorothy Arnold, sometime actress who divorced Joe DiMaggio in 1944, was worried. Joe and their nine-year-old son, Joe Jr., had been seen frolicking at Hollywood's flossy Bel Air Hotel swimming pool-and Joe's friend, luscious Cinemactress Marilyn (Clash by Night) Monroe, was also there in the unlikely role of young Joe's governess. Dorothy went to court to ask that Joe be ordered to stop taking the boy to places that are long on liquor, short on other children. Marilyn merely said: "I want to love and be loved more than anything else...
...girl. As the cynical lover, Robert Ryan plays a motion-picture projectionist who speaks some grade-B movie dialogue, e.g., to Barbara: "Your husband's the salt of the earth, but he's not the right seasoning for you." Also on hand, in a minor role: shapely Marilyn Monroe. as a fish-cannery employee who bounces around in a succession of slacks, bathing suits and sweaters...