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January 26: Marilyn is invited to attend the Foreign Press Association's First Annual International Film Festival at the Club Del Mar in Santa Monica and creates a sensation by wearing an Idaho potato burlap bag designed for her by Billy Travilla.
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January 26: The Independent Theater Owners of Arkansas confer on Marilyn the "State's Most Popular Movie Actress" award."
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January 26: The studio suspends Marilyn again.
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January 26: Journalist George Carpozi Jr. interviews Marilyn at the Gladstone Hotel. He is accompanied by photographer George Miller, who accompanies Marilyn, dressed in a dark fur coat, on a walk through Central Park. She drives with DiMaggio to Cooperstown, New York, to see his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. They also visit his brother Dominic and Dominic's wife Emily, who are living near Boston.
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February 8: Marilyn does her "black sitting" session with Milton Greene. Marilyn poses in black hat and fishnet stockings, her face partially in shadow. She also appears in a shot where she lies down, her left leg extended in the air, as she covers part of her face with her hands. She also kneels, drink in hand, smiling. She props herself up with her arms and draws her knees into her body, with half her face in the dark--a study in moody bi..
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March 11: Marilyn arrives at Greenson's home and tells him she is going to Palm Springs. After memorizing Nunnally Johnson's script for Something's Got to Give, Marilyn learns it has been rewritten by George Cukor and Walter Bernstein. Marilyn is sent forty pages of modifications, but she refuses to play the part as rewritten.
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April 22: "I'm a bookworm and proud of it," Marilyn tells columnist Erskine Johnson."
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March 30: Marilyn approves of Johnson's script.
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February 12: Nunnally Johnson completes a new draft of Something's Got to Give. Marilyn later writes on the script, "We've got a dog here." She pencils in several suggestions and rejects some lines as "not funny."
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February 20: Bob Alden writes from Korea on New York Times stationery to Stan (not otherwise identified): "The girl was just wonderful out here. She put every ounce of herself into everything that she did and won the hearts of a hundred thousand smitten G.I.'s. I doubt if any of them from General on down to Private will ever be the same again. Maybe we could send Marilyn up into North Korea to win over the Communists."
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February 20: Time publishes "Co-Stars," about the Monroe-Olivier matchup."
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Just then Michael was exercised about a letter he had received from Michael Scammell, Arthur Koestler's authorised biographer, raising doubts that his subject had actually raped Jill. Certain of her friends had expressed their skepticism to Scammell, he reported. Michael pronounced Scammell's name so that it sounded to me like "Scoundrel." --
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Talk about Michael sex's life segued into a discussion of Arthur Koestler's rape of Jill, a story that Michael himself first revealed in a review of a book about Koestler. He caused an uproar in the press and among Jill's and Michael's friends. Frederic Raphael wrote a piece questioning Jill's account, suggesting she had exaggerated or perhaps had even led Koestler on. There were other skeptics, although another woman came forward, writing ..
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January 28: Some Like It Hot is previewed at the Bay Theatre in Pacific Palisades. No one laughs, except Steve Allen and a few friends invited to the screening.
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February 11: Actress Edith Evanson visits Marilyn's Brentwood home to work on the Swedish accent Marilyn is to use for her disguise as a maid in Something's Got to Give, an identity Marilyn's character adopts when returning home to her husband, who presumes she has died in an air crash. "Everything was dark, heavy and depressing. It had a creepy feeling about it but I thought nothing of it because she talked of her plans for decorating and ..
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In The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, David Thomson argues that Brennan should have won awards for even better performances in To Have and Have Not (1944), My Darling Clementine (1946), Red River (1948), The Far Country (1955), and Rio Bravo (1959). Thomson counts no less than twenty-eight high caliber Brennan performances in still more films, including These Three (1936), Fury (1936), Meet John Doe (1941), and Bad Day At Black Rock (..
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February 26: At the French Film Institute in New York City, Marilyn receives the Crystal Star as "Best Foreign Actress" for her performance in The Prince and the Showgirl. At the party afterward, she is photographed holding and kissing a dachshund."
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