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...noon one day last week, some 150 photographers, newsmen and news-hens in Manhattan's sedate Plaza Hotel began scrambling and clawing, cursing and groaning, to worm nearer to their common goal. All cameras converged on one of the least likely duos in cinematic history: Hollywood's Marilyn Monroe and Britain's Sir Laurence Olivier. Together in public for the first time, Marilyn, explosively protruding from a black velvet sheath, and Sir Laurence, with the ironic aplomb of a gentleman accidentally trapped in a powder room, confirmed the fact (TIME, Jan. 30) that they will co-star...
...Under Marilyn's dreamy pluckings, one of her wispy shoulder straps broke. (She later restaged the accident for frenzied photographers...
...sage ethic. Louis Calhern's part involves an early and unlikely double-cross from which, as far as the story goes, he never recovers. But he, too, sees his errors, commits suicide, and the Witches are all happy again. playing at being Calhern's moll, a young starlet named Marilyn Monroe in her first performance reaches the peak of her acting career...
...businesswoman became apparent when Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc. bought a property to serve as a starring vehicle for its president, M. Monroe The property was Playwright Terence (The Winslow Boy) Rattigan's The Sleeping Prince, a London stage hit in which Sir Laurence Olivier played the prince. Marilyn also bagged the playwright, and soon had another famed theatrical technician, Director John (The African Queen) Huston...
...Rome, Sir Laurence said: should be delighted to make the picture with Miss Monroe. I have never met her, but I saw her films. I regard her as an actress and a comedienne of the first order, wonderfully easy to look at . . ."As for the bid to play opposite Marilyn, Sir Laurence said, "Who would resist an approach from Miss Monroe...