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Oct 16, 2007 14:55

I've been watching the old PETER GUNN DVD set I bought years ago...

"Women We Love" Dept.:At the time Marilyn Monroe broke really big, every studio did what they always do and still do - looked strictly at the superficial aspects of the thing that their competition had done to make some money, and then fired off some knock off versions of the ( Read more... )

women we love, this year's blonde, lord love a duck

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migaira October 17 2007, 06:42:30 UTC

Wow, she is good-looking!
And yes, frightfully filling out the screen.

chat_qui_peche October 20 2007, 04:59:02 UTC

Peter Gunn, a wonderful series, was made even better with the presence of Lola Albright. She was was one of those "This Year's Blondes" whom other women liked.

Not to hedge in on "Carnack's" act, but... papajoemambo October 20 2007, 16:04:13 UTC

People like Lola and Shelley and Stella fared a lot better than Sharee North, Mamie Van Doren and even Tuesday Weld (who was almost but not quite Paramount's attempt to graft Marilyn onto a Natalie Wood type) did because the latter batch never made it past the sexpot stage. Lola and Tuesday sabotaged themselves a little, I think, because their own integrety (which was a lot more genuine, in my opinion, in the case of Lola and much less so in the case of Tuesday) got in the way of their marketing. I think that Jayne Mansfield might have been recognised as a much better actress in the 70's had she lived longer. She was on the verge of getting a kind of a Stella Stephens or Shirley MacLaine styled "more than just that 'girl' that the Rat Pack loved" quality to her that stopped short when she died in her car accident ( ... )

And while I've got this on my mind... papajoemambo October 20 2007, 16:10:21 UTC

Marilyn didn't even believe in the validity of her own studio's "version" of her. There are lots of her talking about "Marilyn" in the third person and very much evidence that the "Marilyn" character was almost a performance art piece for her, much like Elvira is for Cassandra Peterson.

This is why Marilyn moved to New York in the middle of her career and started taking legitimate acting classes. She didn't like the caricature that people thought she was.

Re: And while I've got this on my mind... chat_qui_peche October 20 2007, 22:28:20 UTC

Marilyn was right: she was so much more than the Marilyn persona. I've read so many reports of how she slipped in and out of the character at will. In "All Above Eve," she has a small part which she plays as an actress who must transform herself into a sex symbol to get work; and her performance is acute, touching, and funny.

"Why are they always nappy rabbits?"

Unfortunately, the PTB at the time didn't value anything she had to offer except her sexuality. At the time, the term "sex object" wasn't in use so she was a "sex symbol." It's ironic that, when she died at 36, she was widely regarded as too old to be sexy.