![]() Consciously or unconsciously, I dressed, talked and behaved just as such a girl would.”Īccording to her own description, this young actress ran with “the jazzy about-town crowd” in Hollywood. Cast as a flaming flapper on the screen, she later admitted, “I did feel that I was that type of girl. This was a voluptuous beauty given to dancing the Charleston on table-tops in her movies-and to ardently living her role in her private life. Remember (as Joan and Hollywood didn’t) another young actress who once smashed into movies with tactics quite as reckless. They don’t? Let’s see whether Hollywood was justified in the sudden caution that put Marilyn under wraps. But they don’t like to see it flaunted in their faces. People are interested in it, intrigued with it. “Sex,” Joan had said, “plays a tremendously important part in every person’s life. Was that good? Was that bad? Uncertain which way to jump, the executives decided to play ‘it safe, and Marilyn made her next important public appearance wearing a comparatively modest dress-with-jacket outfit that subdued her outstanding characteristics. The next day, worried Twentieth Century-Fox executives took an informal poll by phone to find whether their prize property had indeed endangered her boxoffice value. The movie business, they said, should have outgrown such shenanigans. Others in the motion-picture business joined the assault. Apparently Miss Monroe is making the mistake of believing her publicity.” ![]() ![]() “Like a burlesque show,” said the dignified and distinguished-looking Miss Crawford. And the attack started, with Joan Crawford playing general. Wearing a gold lamé dress of such intimate design that it had to be sewed on her, Marilyn walked up to receive her award-walked in the uninhibited manner that is uniquely Monroe. The battle really began with the Photoplay Gold Medal Awards dinner. ![]() And when Marilyn finally, definitely arrived, what happened? At first, hats were thrown gleefully in the air, and then, in a sudden reversal, all the town’s heavy artillery was hauled out to assail her with a walloping barrage of criticism. OtsoNY will be revisiting the film, The Seven Year Itch this month to add additional film locations as well as some interesting facts about the film.For years, Hollywood has been awaiting a Marilyn Monroe: the essence of sex, a personality so exciting that column after column of free publicity, photo after photo would be devoted to recording her latest sayings and doings. More recently, popstar Rita Ora posted a picture of herself on her Instagram standing on a subway-grate in New York with her silky silver skirt rising above her knee with the quote “So this happened”. Though she managed to maintain her composure in front of the on-looking photographers, the mishap was caught on camera for all to see. In 2014, actress Jessica Alba accidentally imitated Monroe when air from a subway grate blew her skirt up around her waist whilst the star was on her way to Whole Foods Market on 7th Avenue and West 24th Street in New York City. It's been over 60 years since the famous subway-grate moment on Lexington Avenue and East 52nd Street in the film "The Seven Year Itch", when Marilyn Monroe's character attempted to cool off by catching a gust of air from the subway updraft, “Ooh do you feel the breeze from the subway, isn’t it delicious” but even today some celebrities are still caught out with the Manhattan breeze, and normally at an inappropriate moment when the paparazzi are nearby taking photos.įilm: The Seven Year Itch featuring Marilyn Monroe
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