Another Auction

___I see the link is not clickable, so just look it up with WWW.allure.com...
___It should pop up, these auctions are coming up in NYC, and LA.

Dorian--Yes, I read that the hair would go for $8,000 which seems to me on the low side. Let's see what the actual action brings. A lot of the "rare" photos in this latest batch, have already been all over various Pinterest sites. Ditto the Milton Greene home movies. But there's always something new. And I do hope to live long enough to see good and extensive footage from such events as "The Prince and the Showgirl" preem...MM at the "Hot" preem in Chicago...the 1962 Golden Globes. (Although FOX reportedly destroyed the footage, look what happened w the "SGTG" stuff. Who could have imagined it survived all those years in the vaults! So, I live in hope.) Oh, also, the rest of the "SGTG" costume tests--in the bikini, for example!

Anything you're especially interested in, that hasn't surfaced yet? (like the scenes cut from "Niagara" "Blondes" "Itch" and "Bus Stop.")

And there will always be new photos--either candids taken by fans, or additional shots from famous sessions.

Denis,
___I would like to see that first FOX test, where Zanuck said Monroe was unphotogenic. He might have actually said that as an excuse to drop her, but I mean, still! Look at all those girlfriends he tried without success to make a star.
___I have already seen with much glee some SGTG shots on Pinterest, which I immediately printed. And, purchased two very rare shots on eBay I have never seen reprinted, yet.
___Like to see 7YI deleted sequences. Really, anything that's been withheld.
___Maybe FOX could have gotten ahold of the GG film, but I seriously doubt that, especially considering how they tried so hard to destroy her after the June 8th firing, and horrible press releases and lies.
___Lee Strasberg? Do they still have more stuff? Does Anna need more money, it's obscene.
Dorian

Anna apparently always needs money, so I believe there's more to come from that area. I have heard--who knows, despite what I consider an excellent source--that there is Kennedy material, letters. Perhaps.

As to the GG's, Monroe had yet to begin "SGTG" and FOX was still more or less protecting an asset. It is true that when the show was televised--it was a local thing, back then--all the Monroe footage was gone, despite her being an award winner that evening. Numerous columns mentioned her wobbly behavior. Again, this was prior her firing and the studio's campaign against her. Whatever the reason, it's strange that absolutely no film of her has surfaced from that evening. She was--as Miss Golden Globes, Stefanie Powers commented in later years--the main object of every camera in the place that night. And In photos of her, arriving with Bolanos and at their table, one can spot guys with handheld movie cameras. Where is that film?!

I keep my fingers crossed. As to her first screen test, I guess that's lost. Although it's hard to believe Zanuck truly found her "photogenic." She's lovely in "Ladies of The Chorus" in which she is essentially Norma Jeane with very blonde hair. I think Mr. Z, like Harry Cohn, had other plans which MM resisted. (Although Mr. Z tended to prefer brunettes.)

Denis,
___If AS actually has any Kennedy material, she doesn't need to sell anything, just get paid to keep it under wraps. Unkike Inez Melson who allowed that Jean Kennedy note to Marilyn surface, posthumously.
____Yes, it is probably more correct about Zanuck that he was spurned, Marilyn was Spyros Skouras girl. On the one hand he was saying the most photographed woman of all time was unphotogenic, and on the other, she looked too much like Shirley Temple, the most adorable child star ever, he certainly wasn't being objective.
___After nearly 54 years and the fervor hasn't died down, as I've said, I'm sure now Marilyn will outlive me.
Dorian

The thing is, MM DID bear quite a resemblance to Temple, which I'd have thought would have been a positive, given how popular Shirley was. (She phased herself out as a teenager and young woman, but remained quite attractive until her retirement.)

Zanuck, for whatever reason, just didn't like Marilyn, and he loathed her after she went on strike in '54 and left Hollywood. Truth be told, because of her image, and the fact that she'd been a major star for only two years, her defection was not looked at kindly by any aspect of the industry. It's not like she was Bette Davis or Olivia De Havilland fighting for better roles. (And Bette lost her fight!) "Itch" came out and luckily was a huge hit. FOX felt they had to bring her back, more or less on her own terms. But Hollywood's attitude toward her had hardened considerably. They never really forgave this upstart "calendar girl" for wanting to improve herself. And, that year and a half in New York, away from L.A. and moviemaking, did slow the momentum of her career--the Miller marriage and all that time in Connecticut didn't help either.

I can't imagine MM was looking forward to Mr. Z resuming his duties at Fox in 1962. He'd hated her at her peak, what she could expect at 36, with all her troubles?

Denis,
___According to The Last Take with Peter Brown and Patte Barham, Marilyn did feel "nervous" and ambilivant about the Zanuck takeover. But, FOX was so completely hosed up, probably anything would have been an improvement. Whether Zanuck liked Monroe or not, I'm sure she was as always seen as a commodity, so releasing SGTG as quickly as possible to override Cleopatra expenses, and getting his film 'The Longest Day' out, then Cleopatra were top priorties, as they had spent most, if not all of 62 on these 3 films alone. In the end, Monroe got her desires though at an extremely high price. Her reputation was deeply savaged, but she would have finished the film on her terms, with a replaced director, and the script she preferred. And, it would have been George Cukor who would have suffered the most career wise had not death altered everything, and I mean all!
Dorian

Dorian--

Unfortunately, the directors somehow don't suffer as the stars do. Cukor was already well into his decline by the time he did "Let's Make Love." He had nothing successful between that and "SGTG." Finally, thanks to the still potent box-office of Audrey Hepburn, the fame of the show, Rex Harrison, and Cecil Beaton, who was essentially a co-director, Cukor had his last gasp--and an Oscar--w "My Fair Lady." After that--splat!! But, he kept working, somehow. "The Bluebird," anyone?)

Even if MM had lived to complete the film w Jean Negluesco, her reputation in Hollywood had been pretty much shredded since Wilder and "Hot." The industry was on Cukor's side, and would have remained there. Of course, nice sounds would have been made toward Monroe if the film had been a success, but as I've often said, there was little in Hollywood for her at that time. (Unless "SGTG" turned into a blockbuster that helped alter her image.) Europe would have offered more respect, more money and much richer material.