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[edit] WALKING ON THE DARK SIDE
John Gilmore worked in pictures at 20th Century Fox. He was a young actor on the rise and being considered by producer Jerry Wald for a lead opposite Marilyn Monroe in THE STRIPPER, based on the William Inge play, A LOSS OF ROSES, which Gilmore stared in during the 1960 Los Angeles stage performance. ("The player who has the smoothest going is Jonathan Gilmore, who gives an errorless performance..." Los Angeles Examiner.) Gilmore had the support of Hunt Stromberg, Jr., as all as that of Raymond Burr and director Stuart Rosenberg, being considered for the movie. Marilyn Monroe told Gilmore she was excited to do the new Jerry Wald picture as it offered her another a serious, dramatic role. But at the same time, she was having problems with the SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE movie, being directed by George Cukor. She said the picture was "fluff", and she hated the script. Fox was losing huge sums of money due to the Cleopatra picture with Liz Taylor, and due to Marilyn's problems with Cukor on SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE. As a result, Marilyn was fired from Fox and the picture never finished. The projected STRIPPER role for Marilyn was gone, and she was replaced by Joanne Woodward. Director Franklin Schaffner, from television fame, hired by Wald, brought in another actor for the role Gilmore had been up for. In a recent interview, Gilmore says, "That's the way the politics bounce. Before the studio dumped Marilyn, we'd talked about the picture and Marilyn was especially excited about the suicide sequence where the stripper tries to slit her wrists with broken glass. Overall a sensational part that offered Marilyn another dramatic role... She wanted so desperately to climb out of the 'fluff' roles, however... The picture made was with Joanne Woodward, who I knew from New York, was filming and well in progress when Jerry Wald sufferd a heart attack and died that July of '62, and then a month later, in August, Marilyn was found dead. Joanne told me later she did the picture as an homage to Marilyn, though Darryl Zanuck, heading Fox, cut the attempted suicide scene and most of the intense material, rending it the same cheeseball 'fluff' Marilyn had been fighting to avoid." Gilmore also claims the "collapse" of his screen union with Marilyn caused him to lose interest in further striving to become a star. He says, "Other fish were frying..." RatsoX2 15:31, 8 October 2006 (UTC)RatsoX2
