50 Years Ago Today, in Hollywood...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58oHxhOAMg8E1nt1F6qVdfKcDIYxrRZveONpR-GcDOTAQaWJ3gmAFOfL4efNQZZE_-7o2caeOyaE0VAYzKIrz4DHhOuQs2P-O-X3l62Wuc0AkO2DHUczOYbUPjUhF3AflWHROlSljZs2f/s1600/mm+tests+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58oHxhOAMg8E1nt1F6qVdfKcDIYxrRZveONpR-GcDOTAQaWJ3gmAFOfL4efNQZZE_-7o2caeOyaE0VAYzKIrz4DHhOuQs2P-O-X3l62Wuc0AkO2DHUczOYbUPjUhF3AflWHROlSljZs2f/s400/mm+tests+3.jpg" width="350" /></a></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marilyn Monroe was scheduled to work on <i>Something’s Got to Give</i>, a George Cukor film in production for 20th Century Fox, on June 1, 1962, her 36^th birthday. That Marilyn arrived on the set on time and worked all day, managing to complete scenes with leading man Dean Martin and co-star Wally Cox, was a cause for celebration in itself, considering Marilyn had worked on only a handful of the film’s 30+ days in production. At the end of the day, a birthday party was thrown on the set featuring a cake festooned with sparklers and Marilyn's favorite champagne, Dom Perignon. Afterward Marilyn attended a charity baseball game at Dodger Stadium and was serenaded with a chorus of “Happy Birthday” during the event.</span><br /><br /><a name='more'></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_Oc9F0JTQzPuprDzN2r922BvHtShXMOvbsjVP-xymo0MDQNlPGh2EEICAM8Izg5zYKmumJUNX79_66nHPSdNPPVbilXwfeio4ZlKA0X5dLplRML08pOaMgxc_XyHWe16dPHlc7w5QHXo/s1600/Marilyn+at+36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_Oc9F0JTQzPuprDzN2r922BvHtShXMOvbsjVP-xymo0MDQNlPGh2EEICAM8Izg5zYKmumJUNX79_66nHPSdNPPVbilXwfeio4ZlKA0X5dLplRML08pOaMgxc_XyHWe16dPHlc7w5QHXo/s400/Marilyn+at+36.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marilyn turns 36</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg03du69oj1DOlTTd_GafssPAYSUaS95dxK65zErq43KOwpmqV-mzUkNDnrW4kP1CPXoQyrEEDS7USxp6poipz2606i85jnRrv11FnH2WHkyo-ADn0McPb-mMuMoH1o4Isx7MGNrIzADmDP/s1600/MM+baseball+game.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg03du69oj1DOlTTd_GafssPAYSUaS95dxK65zErq43KOwpmqV-mzUkNDnrW4kP1CPXoQyrEEDS7USxp6poipz2606i85jnRrv11FnH2WHkyo-ADn0McPb-mMuMoH1o4Isx7MGNrIzADmDP/s320/MM+baseball+game.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dodger Stadium, June 1, 1962</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;">The next morning, Saturday, June 2, a distraught Marilyn called the home of her vacationing psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, and asked his children to come over. There they found her in bed, disheveled and inconsolable. According to Greenson’s son, Daniel, Marilyn rattled off a long list of complaints, concluding with the comment that her life wasn’t worth living. A colleague of Dr. Greenson’s, Dr. Milton Wexler, was summoned and he quickly appropriated the arsenal of sedatives he found in her room. It was later determined that Marilyn’s behavior was likely triggered by an overdose of Dexamyl, an anti-depressant.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marilyn did not appear on the set of <i>Something’s Got to Give</i> the following Monday, and when her attorney, Mickey Rudin, tried to persuade her to return to work, she became furious and accused him of siding with the studio. Rudin, who was also her psychiatrist’s brother in law, contacted Dr. Greenson who was still in on holiday in Europe and the doctor agreed to fly home at once.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On Tuesday, June 5, Marilyn stayed home from work again. Dean Martin reportedly walked off the set in frustration and the production was temporarily suspended. An emergency meeting was called for Wednesday the 6^th at Fox with both Dr. Greenson and Rudin in attendance. The studio was not convinced that either could guarantee that Marilyn would be able to finish the film and finally made a decision that had long been considered – she would be replaced. And so, 50 years ago today, on Friday, June 8, 1962, it was announced that Marilyn Monroe had been fired from <i>Something's Got to Give</i>.</span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84_AtdG8pN2pT60OkOGwBoCmpSB4NNsnoNXq9-PwunTcpNc4LPaZ_Oy7OgtITCBzsspyIXWdrxpZL2I-Dir4wnpIkCGiAuNPkItecADgl72xMWGhoM4dA-lfrfi3UptTuoXbnupwZHu7u/s1600/Lee+Remick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj84_AtdG8pN2pT60OkOGwBoCmpSB4NNsnoNXq9-PwunTcpNc4LPaZ_Oy7OgtITCBzsspyIXWdrxpZL2I-Dir4wnpIkCGiAuNPkItecADgl72xMWGhoM4dA-lfrfi3UptTuoXbnupwZHu7u/s320/Lee+Remick.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lee Remick</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When Lee Remick was hired to replace her, Dean Martin responded, "I have the greatest respect for Miss Remick and her talent and for all other actresses who were considered for the role, but I signed to do the picture with Marilyn Monroe, and I will do it with no one else."</span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNIBOuNJ6l5hxyxQEuhOLHEV52ElUp_K4S2pXMIZt9zyBGmuYwM9XaFtC1km_4l2O4eAn990PQGiopfJ7BiFOkUR0RwToLWHGeXuCwuSAqX0MM4fTUc1DgnvHODrvOWUee7UyuxGn3yckD/s1600/MM+and+DM+SGTG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNIBOuNJ6l5hxyxQEuhOLHEV52ElUp_K4S2pXMIZt9zyBGmuYwM9XaFtC1km_4l2O4eAn990PQGiopfJ7BiFOkUR0RwToLWHGeXuCwuSAqX0MM4fTUc1DgnvHODrvOWUee7UyuxGn3yckD/s320/MM+and+DM+SGTG.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dean Martin and Marilyn Monroe during the making of <i>Something's Got to Give</i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">George Cukor, who also directed Marilyn in <i>Let's Make Love</i> (1960), later remarked, "I liked her very much. I found her extremely intelligent - inarticulate, but extremely intelligent. And driven. She was a very peculiar girl...There may be an exact psychiatric term for what was wrong with her, I don't know - but truth to tell, I think she was quite mad."</span></span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrzxqilvsU2-e_m0XwI9XoQtG2T80za8IO4znARN-tC0hEVO-ecJJhnbL09ot70MRMkw3aEPMW9Pue5GOdqpn6HAZgoHRYDJ0HNWtMnP2WPu0a7Gns37bk5sa6Cx46xmmcTt4woozW35Fd/s1600/MM+and+Cukor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrzxqilvsU2-e_m0XwI9XoQtG2T80za8IO4znARN-tC0hEVO-ecJJhnbL09ot70MRMkw3aEPMW9Pue5GOdqpn6HAZgoHRYDJ0HNWtMnP2WPu0a7Gns37bk5sa6Cx46xmmcTt4woozW35Fd/s1600/MM+and+Cukor.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Director George Cukor with Marilyn on the set</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Eventually the picture, a remake of the Cary Grant/Irene Dunne classic, <i>My Favorite Wife</i> (1940), was produced - but with a different director, cast and title. <i>Move Over, Darling</i> starring Doris Day and James Garner was released on Christmas 1963.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYMUSnjVJe48qy2deBtBcIMBAe4Kny_Wn-NJRzQrDwvUJ_XXg44gu6bCFwizZtzj1sED1nAObiocE3CvIBHixpmR4u5pgwPM_tKkm6J-G1wWJZbDH7icjgtmpHNOhst7HcrLj5GjaupgU/s1600/Doris+Day+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYMUSnjVJe48qy2deBtBcIMBAe4Kny_Wn-NJRzQrDwvUJ_XXg44gu6bCFwizZtzj1sED1nAObiocE3CvIBHixpmR4u5pgwPM_tKkm6J-G1wWJZbDH7icjgtmpHNOhst7HcrLj5GjaupgU/s320/Doris+Day+2.jpg" width="260" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doris Day</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>

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Marilyn Monroe was scheduled to work on Something’s Got to Give, a George Cukor film in production for 20th Century Fox, on June 1, 1962, her 36th birthday. That Marilyn arrived on the set on time and worked all day, managing to complete scenes with …

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