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...columnist printed the news that the girl on the nude calendar was Marilyn, and the scandal broke full about her ears...
...Marilyn was fired by Fox, and a friend got her a contract at Columbia, where she was called to the office of an executive. He asked her to visit his yacht. She declined. She was fired a few days later. No work for months, and money ran low. The finance company repossessed her car; she was four weeks behind in her rent. She called up Photographer Tom Kelley, who had often asked her to pose in the nude, and said she would. She got $50 for the job. He sold two pictures to two calendar companies for $900; the John...
...terrified, but she decided to tell the truth: "I needed the money." The press was delighted-especially when, in reply to the clucking of a newshen ("You mean you didn't have anything on?"), Marilyn delivered herself of a famous Monroeism: "Oh yes, I had the radio...
...quite a victory, and she had won it by being herself. Marilyn began to think that maybe that was the way the public wanted her to be. Slowly she began to trust her own ear, and to play by it. She began to show up at public gatherings in dresses into which she had obviously been sewed, and under which there was just as obviously nothing at all. She made a series of not-so-Dumb-Dora remarks in public that soon added up to a widely quoted Monroe Doctrine of life and love. (Monroe...
Pink Champagne. Marilyn's publicity clippings began to arrive in bales. Her next three pictures (Niagara, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire) were box-office blockbusters. At the end of 1953, according to the trade press, she had made more money for her studio than any other actress in Hollywood. She also won the Photoplay Award as the year's most popular actress...