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...recounted by her family, was Spock-marked with classic difficulties. Her birth in Chicago on Feb. 13, 1933, came as a disappointment to her parents, Joseph and Blanche Novak, native Americans of Bohemian parentage, who had prepared only boys' names for the arrival. The Novaks named her Marilyn Pauline. Joe Novak, a claim clerk for the Milwaukee Railroad, is a melancholy, tight-lipped man whom little Marilyn tried hard to please; she seldom succeeded. Marilyn proved to be lefthanded; her father badgered her without success to use her right hand. "It just makes me sick to see anybody write...
...slightly; an alabaster pallor sculpts her cheeks; her hair is shaped to the head in a fluffy corona of lavender-rinsed silver platinum. With no effort at all, she generates a kind of sex appeal that is strangely rare in a town where sex is a major product. Marilyn Monroe parodies sex, and Jayne Mansfield parodies Marilyn Monroe. Kim Novak simply communicates sex without leers. She moves in a kind of rapt trance that is oddly provocative because it also seems innocent...
...Prince and the Showgirl. Sir Laurence Olivier puts Marilyn Monroe through some evasive hip action in a Graustarkian romp around 1911 London (TIME, June...
Such a bagatelle of a plot demands-and gets from Dame Sybil and Sir Laurence-high acting to fetch high comedy. From Marilyn it gets a spasmodic effort to conquer the awesome heights. Her most persuasive line is just plain "Gosh!"-but it is never clear whether she is overwhelmed by the dictates of the script or the awesome dramatic company she is keeping. Parading and posing with an even more voluptuous silhouette than most 1911 showgirls had, Marilyn is alternately spirited and lethargic. Especially in her tussling with Olivier, she seems more directed by him than acting with...
...clamming on who else was present at a pro-Communist writers' palaver in 1947. Maximum sentence: a year in jail and $1,000 fine on each count. At week's end Pulitzer Prizewinner (Death of a Salesman) Miller, free on bond, and his dark-goggled wife, Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe, headed for the hills from Manhattan for solitude and to celebrate Marilyn's 31st birthday. ∙∙ The U.S. Senate is not only one of the world's most exclusive clubs but a club whose members are expected to step out-side for epithetical exchanges. Despite such...