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A little bird in the wardrobe department chirped this item in my ear –she was having a hard time getting actors under thirty to put on their underwear. Besides the obvious issues of hygiene what you wear under your costume affects how the garments look on top. Children, it isn’t…
Hawks’ friend (and Hepburn’s sometime-boyfriend) Howard Hughes finally suggested Cary Grant for the role. Grant had just finished shooting his breakthrough romantic comedy The Awful Truth, and Hawks may have seen a rough cut of the unreleased film. Grant then had a non-exclusive, four-picture deal with RKO for $50,000 per…
David Huxley: Now it isn’t that I don’t like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I’m strangely drawn toward you, but – well, there haven’t been any quiet moments. I need a little escapist, fun filled, romantic fantasy today. Join me? This cracks me up, every time.
It is one of the most memorable of all the many memorable images of Marilyn Monroe — standing over a sidewalk subway grate on Lexington Avenue as the whoosh from below sends her ecru halter dress billowing above her waist. Ms. Monroe was the star of that scene, but the…
My Lunches with Orson: Conversations between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles: Peter Biskind: 9780805097252: Amazon.com: Books. OW: I wanted to try and promote her career. Nobody even glanced at Marilyn. You’d see all these beautiful girls, the most chic girls in town, who spent fortunes at the beauty parlor and…