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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 206102" data-attributes="member: 7"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Marilyn Monroe, who was a steadily rising as a star on the 20th Century-Fox lot, was cast in a series of films during the 1951─52 period. These films all came after she signed her second contract with the studio in December 1950, this time with a commitment for seven years, starting at $500 a week. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">One biography referred to this era as the following: </span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">"Now cast in a series of lightweight and often forgettable films, Marilyn </span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">continued to play the shapely, and usually light-headed blonde." </span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Some time in 1950, she had to have had a brief contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she made <em>The Asphalt Jungle</em>. She made two other films with the studio at the same time, namely <em>Right Cross </em>and <em>Home Town Story</em>. In the former, she played a woman whom Dick Powell tries to woo and invite her to his apartment, where he will cook her an exquisite pot of spaghetti. As the cigarette-smoking Miss Ledoux, she has five or six lines, and is on-camera for my sixty seconds in total. She didn't even get a screen credit for her work here. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">The latter, entitled <em>Home Town Story</em>, casts her as Iris, a secretary to a small-town politician. She gets some on-screen billing this time, and even shows up in a few scenes, especially earlier in the film. This movie has long entered the public domain, and it perhaps the most widely issued of Monroe's films. Almost all the bargain retailers that issue this film present Monroe as the star, when that could not be further from the truth. The DVD version I have of this movie bills it like this: "Marilyn Monroe in <em>Home Town Story</em>," and it lists the actual stars, such as Jeffery Lynn and Marjorie Reynolds, at the bottom. Talk about completely inaccurate advertising. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">BELOW: A publicity photo of Monroe in <em>Right Cross</em>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/40/2e/f2402ea47fab2d4a84020f3d8d58daa9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 206102, member: 7"] [FONT=Verdana]Marilyn Monroe, who was a steadily rising as a star on the 20th Century-Fox lot, was cast in a series of films during the 1951─52 period. These films all came after she signed her second contract with the studio in December 1950, this time with a commitment for seven years, starting at $500 a week. One biography referred to this era as the following: [/FONT] [CENTER][FONT=Verdana]"Now cast in a series of lightweight and often forgettable films, Marilyn continued to play the shapely, and usually light-headed blonde." [/FONT][/CENTER] [FONT=Verdana]Some time in 1950, she had to have had a brief contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she made [I]The Asphalt Jungle[/I]. She made two other films with the studio at the same time, namely [I]Right Cross [/I]and [I]Home Town Story[/I]. In the former, she played a woman whom Dick Powell tries to woo and invite her to his apartment, where he will cook her an exquisite pot of spaghetti. As the cigarette-smoking Miss Ledoux, she has five or six lines, and is on-camera for my sixty seconds in total. She didn't even get a screen credit for her work here. The latter, entitled [I]Home Town Story[/I], casts her as Iris, a secretary to a small-town politician. She gets some on-screen billing this time, and even shows up in a few scenes, especially earlier in the film. This movie has long entered the public domain, and it perhaps the most widely issued of Monroe's films. Almost all the bargain retailers that issue this film present Monroe as the star, when that could not be further from the truth. The DVD version I have of this movie bills it like this: "Marilyn Monroe in [I]Home Town Story[/I]," and it lists the actual stars, such as Jeffery Lynn and Marjorie Reynolds, at the bottom. Talk about completely inaccurate advertising. BELOW: A publicity photo of Monroe in [I]Right Cross[/I]. [/FONT] [CENTER][FONT=Verdana][IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/40/2e/f2402ea47fab2d4a84020f3d8d58daa9.jpg[/IMG] [/FONT][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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