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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 205956" data-attributes="member: 7">In 1946, Marilyn Monroe had been working successfully as model for the Blue Book Modeling Agency for close to three years. That year, she persuaded the agency to arrange a screen test for her at 20th Century-Fox. When studio chief, Darryl F. Zanuck, saw the footage, her offered the twenty-two-year-old model a one-year contract, starting at seventy five dollars a week. The official Variety magazine announcement stated she officially signed to the studio in November 1946.&nbsp; She was first assigned a small role in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, a country comedy starring one of the studio&#039;s biggest stars, June Haver. Her part initially consisted of three short scenes, but during post-production, two of those three scenes ending up on the cutting room floor. She was left visible in one scene. June Haver and Natalie Wood, who was then a child, are standing outside of a church having conversation. Congregates are coming of from behind them. One of the congregates is a young girl with long blonde hair, wearing a blue pinafore and white blouse. She says &quot;Hi, Rad&quot; to Haver, and Haver turns and greets her with &quot;Oh, hi, Betty&quot;. Rumors circulate that there&#039;s a long distance shot of Monroe paddling a canoe that remains in the film, but haven&#039;t not seen Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! myself, I couldn&#039;t verify that. There are publicity stills of Marilyn (and another young woman in some cases) photographed in a canoe, supposedly on the set of said film. Filming was completed in late 1947, but the film itself was not released until March 11, 1948, after Marilyn had already had a small role in Dangerous Years, and subsequently been dropped by 20th Century-Fox in August 1947.&nbsp; <img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f7/53/ed/f753ed69b56809b7689de05c4e4e31b5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 205956, member: 7"] [FONT=Verdana]In 1946, Marilyn Monroe had been working successfully as model for the Blue Book Modeling Agency for close to three years. That year, she persuaded the agency to arrange a screen test for her at 20th Century-Fox. When studio chief, Darryl F. Zanuck, saw the footage, her offered the twenty-two-year-old model a one-year contract, starting at seventy five dollars a week. The official [I]Variety [/I]magazine announcement stated she officially signed to the studio in November 1946. She was first assigned a small role in [I]Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay![/I], a country comedy starring one of the studio's biggest stars, June Haver. Her part initially consisted of three short scenes, but during post-production, two of those three scenes ending up on the cutting room floor. She was left visible in one scene. June Haver and Natalie Wood, who was then a child, are standing outside of a church having conversation. Congregates are coming of from behind them. One of the congregates is a young girl with long blonde hair, wearing a blue pinafore and white blouse. She says "Hi, Rad" to Haver, and Haver turns and greets her with "Oh, hi, Betty". Rumors circulate that there's a long distance shot of Monroe paddling a canoe that remains in the film, but haven't not seen [I]Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! [/I]myself, I couldn't verify that. There are publicity stills of Marilyn (and another young woman in some cases) photographed in a canoe, supposedly on the set of said film. Filming was completed in late 1947, but the film itself was not released until March 11, 1948, after Marilyn had already had a small role in [I]Dangerous Years[/I], and subsequently been dropped by 20th Century-Fox in August 1947. [/FONT] [CENTER][IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f7/53/ed/f753ed69b56809b7689de05c4e4e31b5.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]

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