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Word: monroeish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (by George Axelrod) is a satiric free-for-all on Hollywood and sex by the author of The Seven Year Itch. There is a blonde, Marilyn-Monroeish siren, a bland Hollywood agent with satanic powers, an illiterate Hollywood producer, an idling playwright who wrote a sock first play and can't get on with a second. And there is a shy, not very bright young fan-magazine writer who, by selling his soul in 10% slices to the agent, becomes a modern-day Faust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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