This Year's Blonde
| This Year's Blonde | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | John Erman |
| Written by |
Garson Kanin (novel) James Lee (teleplay) |
| Starring |
Constance Forslund Lloyd Bridges Norman Fell |
Release dates | 1980 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
This Year's Blonde is a 1980 low-budgeted American television drama film, based on the Garson Kanin novel Moviola[1] about 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. The movie starred Constance Forslund as Monroe Lloyd Bridges as Johnny Hyde and Norman Fell and was presented as part of a 3-night TV special event on NBC called Moviola: A Hollywood Saga.[1]
This Year's Blonde was the first of two TV movies about Monroe in 1980. The second being, Marilyn: The Untold Story, starring Catherine Hicks. Both movies have been overshadowed by more big-budgeted theatrical films about the star.
Cast
- Constance Forslund as Marilyn Monroe
- Lloyd Bridges as Johnny Hyde
- Norman Fell as Pat Toledo
- Vic Tayback as Harry Cohn
- Michael Lerner as Jack Warner
- John Marley as Joe Schenck
- Richard Seer as Norman
- Lee Wallace as Samuel Goldwyn
- William Frankfather as John Huston
- Philip Sterling as Dr. Freed
- Sondra Blake as Mrs. Baker
- Barney Martin as Eddie Mannix
- Michael Strong as Sol Silverman
- Peter Maloney as Darryl Zanuck
- Stephen Keep Mills as Dore Schary
- Peggy Ann Garner as the Stepmother
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jeanette M. Berard; Klaudia Englund (2009). Television series and specials scripts, 1946-1992: a catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection (Thousand Oaks Library). McFarland & Company. p. 390. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
External links
This Year's Blonde at the Internet Movie Database
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