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...five-week-old show, which is carried by 37 NBC stations, is often less notable for the answers it evokes than the questions it asks. A few examples from the McCrarys' interview with Actress Mary Martin: "Do you envy Marilyn Monroe? Do you dream in color? If you had married Winthrop Rockefeller, would you have just loafed? Do you get jealous of your husband's old girls?" Says Tex: "We try to hurt only people who are able to defend themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Chest a Bust. Another private eye told a story of going with Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra, on Nov. 5, 1954. to raid a building where Marilyn Monroe was spending the night (they broke into the wrong apartment). The detective's report, stolen or sold from the files, matched in every detail a leering account of the fiasco in the September 1955 issue of Confidential. (Also called. Sinatra denied under oath that he had participated in the actual raid.) Hollywood brass was so worried by the peephole press, said a third private eye, that major studios once considered raising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18--Playwright Arthur Miller, 41, was indicted on contempt of Congress charges today for refusing to identify fellow writers with whom he attended Communist party meetings in 1947. Miller is married to actress Marilyn Monroe...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Greece, Britain Conflict in U.N. Over Political Riots in Cyprus; National Guard Denounces Army | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

...major effect of the old Code was to cheapen the film's subject matter rather than purify it. Instead of presenting sex, which is after all the theme of most drama, honestly and openly, Hollywood presents us Marilyn Monroe wiggling her hips, and the audience is supposed to respond "This is SEX." Such an attitude is perhaps greatly responsible for the gold-plated, wired-for-sound image of the world that Hollywood purveys...

Author: By Gerald E. Bunker, | Title: Movies and Morals | 2/12/1957 | See Source »

When M-G-M Producer Pandro Berman decided to film Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, he thought wistfully of blonde Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, who has often confessed a yen to play the role of Grushenka. "Frankly, I don't expect her to be in it," he said. "She would probably want too much money, and besides, I hear she is going to have a baby.'' To all questions of diapers and Dostoevsky, Marilyn murmured unsweetened nothings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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