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HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY MITZI GAYNOR
Published September 4, 2021

HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY MITZI GAYNOR

❤ Today we are wishing a true living Hollywood legend, Mitzi Gaynor a very happy 90th birthday! ❤

Gaynor is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Her most Notable films include “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (1954) and “South Pacific”, the 1958 motion picture adaptation of the stage musical by Rodgers and Hammerstien.
Of course fans of Marilyn’s earlier screen roles will also know that both Monroe and Gaynor co-starred in “We’re Not Married,” though neither had any scenes together.

Of her time on “There’s No Business Like Show Business” She was once quoted as saying:
“I played Ethel Merman’s daughter in that picture and we became best friends …Marilyn Monroe played a hat-check girl in the picture, but she wasn’t around all the time. She was busy creating Marilyn Monroe. If you see that picture now, though, and really pay attention to it, you realize that Marilyn steals the whole damn picture.”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY RAY
Published January 12, 2021

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHNNY RAY

Remembering Johnny Ray, who was born on this day in 1927 and who co-starred with Marilyn in “There’s No Business Like Show Business.”

REMEMBERING MERLE OBERON
Published November 24, 2020

REMEMBERING MERLE OBERON

Remembering Merle Oberon, who passed away on this date in 1979.

Marilyn was photographed with Merle when she visited her old friend Marlon Brando on the set of Desiree.

 

Merle played Cathy opposite Laurence Olivier in one of the most well known and loved adaptations of Wuthering Heights.

MONROE AND TRAVILLA
Published June 8, 2020

MONROE AND TRAVILLA

 

Marilyn and Travilla

Legendary costume designer William Travlla worked with Marilyn on 8 of her movies made at FOX Studios. Which designs are some of your favourite??

“Don’t Bother To Knock”
“Monkey Business”
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
“How To Marry A Millionaire”
“River Of No Return”
“There’s No Business Like Show Business”
“The Seven Year Itch”
“Bus Stop”


“Givenchy gave Audrey Hepburn a little black dress, Jean Louis made Rita Hayworth sizzle in “Gilda,” Adrian helped make Greta Garbo a goddess, and Marilyn had Travilla to flatter her natural assets. Travilla was a FOX contract designer who workd under wardrobe director Charles Le Maire. He personally crafted the clothes worn by Marilyn for both industry functions and in the majority of her FOX films after she was elevated to star status. They had a friendly personal relationship, and unlike Garbo, who later told Adrian that she never liked the clothes he designed for her, Marilyn was delighted to be dressed by Travilla.”
~‘Marilyn Monroe: Platinum FOX’ by Cindy De La Hoz.

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