Word: marilyns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Temple, ever an orphan, lisping and dancing her way into the audience's heart. The moody films of the '40s follow a series of loners down a series of mean streets-an echo of postwar confusion and anxiety. A comic and ultimately sorrowful section is devoted to Marilyn Monroe, following her from screen tests to her last incomplete film, tracing her biography in rare shots with Arthur Miller and Joe DiMaggio. There is also a haunting, overproduced birthday party for John F. Kennedy, where the tardy star is introduced as "the late Marilyn Monroe." Marilyn was the waif...
Lange does a sort of muted Marilyn Monroe imitation in these scenes, but there is an underlying quickness and humor in her characterization. Considering that she played most of her big scenes with a thing, not an actor, and that sometimes she worked to no more than a mark on the wall where the ape would be in the finished picture, her accomplishment is considerable. "We've signed her for 700 years," says Paramount's Diller, exaggerating slightly. Lange, who for some time had led a wandering sort of existence as an art student, dancer and model...
...Marilyn Mercier...
...College itself, and will update the earlier work to include women who have died between 1951 and 1975. The original volumes had 1300 articles on women who had lived between 1607 and 1959, and the update will add another 400 articles, with such candidates for inclusion as Eleanor Roosevelt, Marilyn Sanger, Marilyn Monroe and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. And although the administrators of the program are located in the Radcliffe Institute, the biography is purely a Radcliffe project--the College's contribution to national women's studies...
Parker's instructions to her were simple. "Give me a combination of Lauren Bacall, Mae West and Marilyn Monroe," he told her, and she took it from there. "She knew more about making movies than I did," Parker says now. Co-Star Baio-who broke many hearts among the girls in the company-says simply, "Jodie was funny, but really strong. One day I called her a name-dumb or something-and she gave me a karate kick. I went flying. Knocked over about five garbage cans and some ashtrays. Everybody came running, and she was standing there laughing...