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First of all, she announced, she has organized Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc. Her associates: a magazine photographer named Milton Greene and her new attorney, Manhattan Lawyer Frank Delaney. "I am going to do some pictures and TV and things," said Marilyn, fluttering her lashes above a low-cut white satin dress. "I want to expand, to get into other fields, to broaden my scope . . . People have scope, you know, they really do." Sipping a glass of sherry ("Its so good for your stomach"), Marilyn disclosed that she would like "to play some strong dramatic parts . . . like Grushenka, in The Brothers...
...similar that the overture is only one, uninterrupted composition. There are none of the patter songs, those mixtures of Bulfinch, Shakespeare, and Louella O. Parsons which have paced the memorable Porter productions. He does, it is true, get off "A girl could flatten Lord Mount batten in satin and silk, silk and satin." But he has done better than that...
...make The Men, Hollywood stood there with wide-open arms and a dazzling smile of welcome. But Brando, a sullen kid who went everywhere in blue jeans and a soiled T shirt, stubbornly resisted the town's professional charm. He snorted at the "funnies in satin Cadillacs" and told them precisely, in Miltonic periods of incomprehensible jive talk, what to do with their "putrid glamour." He wanted to be left strictly alone, he snarled, and as for that "cultural boneyard" called Hollywood: "The only reason I'm here is because I don't yet have the moral...
...that Tierney won't understand, he hides the girl in the attic. From there out, it is pie-in-the-eye farce, but with a gentle sigh to be heard, just offscreen, for the inexorable way of a maid with a man. Best of all is the fine satin cushion of language underneath the folderol...
...better the lot of her sisters in satin, two years ago Lucie Daouphars, an almond-eyed part-time Dior mannequin who calls herself Lucky ("It pronounces Looky, as in Looky Strike"), organized L'Association Mutuelle des Mannequins de France. For dues of $7 a year, the association undertook to provide its members with free legal aid, a form of unemployment insurance, medical aid (even in cases of unwed motherhood), and the services of a plastic surgeon. "A bosom of growing importance," sighs Lucky, "is often a cause of unemployment."* Best of all, the association provided its girls with...