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    >8x10 Glossy Photograph. This is an actual photograph recently printed in a photography lab. Please know that my e-Bay name will only appear on this scan, not the actual photograph. Buyer pays Postage and S&H. Inside USA $6.00 International $15.00. I will ship up to five photographs in one envelope for one shipping charge. I accept Paypal*Your bid is a contract - Place a bid only if you're serious about buying the item. If you are the winning bidder, you will enter into a legally binding contract to purchase the item. This is a private auction your name is not shown to other bidders. A private auction prevents others from seeing what you purchase on e-Bay.* Be sure to check out my other auctions by clicking on view sellers other items. Thanks for bidding! Great image of Marilyn . Something's Got to Give is one of the most notorious unfinished films in Hollywood history. The light bedroom comedy, a remake of My Favorite Wife, was produced in 1962 by a then-floundering 20th Century Fox and directed by George Cukor. It was to feature an all-star cast, including Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse, and Phil Silvers. Monroe was to play a woman returned to her husband after the Navy rescues her from six years on a deserted atoll in the Pacific. Martin was to play the husband, and Charisse the new wife whom Martin's character marries the day Monroe's character returns home. A remake of My Favorite Wife was actually released in 1963 (called Move Over, Darling), using some of the sets from Something's Got To Give. Contents * Monroe's last day on the set o 2.3 Monroe is fired * 3 Subsequent events * 4 Years later, some footage is released * Pre-production Screen Tests for Something's Got To Give revealed a modern Monroe at her most radiant, but the film would quickly become a costly debacle for Fox. Enlarge Screen Tests for Something's Got To Give revealed a modern Monroe at her most radiant, but the film would quickly become a costly debacle for Fox. Several weeks before principal photography began, the cast and crew gathered for wardrobe tests on a set that was a fully-lit recreation of George Cukor's Beverly Hills home. Production designer Gene Allen had sent a crew of men to Cukor's home to photograph the entire estate. According to Allen, Cukor was photographed in the set's courtyard, with the intent of using the photo as his 1962 Christmas card, but is said to have abandoned the idea after Monroe's death on August 5th. Marilyn Monroe had been absent from the screen for over a year. She had, at the time, recently undergone gall bladder surgery, and had dropped over 25 pounds, reaching the lowest weight of her adult life. The baby fat was gone, according to her costumer, Marjorie Pletcher. The costume and hair style drawings depicted a new Monroe, much more sophisticated and stylish than any character depicted prior. No one would be ready for what walked onto the set that day. Wearing some of her own clothes, and some of those commissioned by Fox for the film, Marilyn garnered applause and wolf whistles from the catwalks above. If she had been feeling let down at the director's absence, she let no one know about it. Smiling and radiant, she posed before the Cinemascope cameras for six hours of tests. She wore a thigh-length blonde wig meant for the beginning of the film, a two-piece black wool suit (also worn in Let's Make Love), a black and white spaghetti strap silk dress, and a lime green bikini with a bottom designed to cover her navel. Before shooting had began, Monroe had let producer Henry Weinstein know that she had been asked by the White House to perform for President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in honor of his birthday on May 29, 1962. The producer granted her permission to attend the gala believing there would be no problems on the set. Production On the first day of production, April 23, 1962, Monroe telephoned Weinstein to tell him that she had a severe sinus infection, and would not be on the set that morning. Apparently, she had caught the infection after a trip to New York City during which she had visited her acting coach, Lee Strasberg of the Actor's Studio, to go over her role. The studio sent staff doctor Lee Siegel to examine the star at her home. His diagnosis would have postponed Give for a month, but George Cukor refused to wait. Instead, Cukor reorganized his shooting schedule to film scenes around his leading lady. At 7:30am, Cyd Charisse was telephoned at her residence with a request that she come to the Fox lot as soon as possible. Later that morning, the very first scene captured on film involved Martin's character (Nick) and Charisse (as Bianca Arden), in an encounter with children building a treehouse. Over the next month production continued mostly without Monroe, who showed up only occasionally. The production began to fall behind schedule. As Kennedy's birthday approached, no one on the production thought she would keep her commitment to the White House and miss almost a week of shooting. But she did, which made Cukor furious. By this time the production was way over budget, and there still wasn't a totally usable script despite writer Walter Bernstein's efforts. The continual script rewrites aggravated Monroe's well known problems with memorizing dialogue. Monroe seemed very deeply introspective and would spend all of her free time on the set in her dressing room with Lee Strasberg's wife, Paula. It was she whom Marilyn depended on for support and direction during a shoot, not the director. Upon her return from New York, Monroe decided to give the film a publicity boost by doing something no other major Hollywood actress had done before. There was a scene where she was to jump into a swimming pool at night and try to lure Dean Martin's character away from Cyd Charisse's character. "Come on in the water's so refreshing, after you've done- oh you know!" She playfully calls up to his bedroom window. Martin tells her to get out of the pool and then realizes she is nude. A body stocking was made for her, but Monroe, in a calculated move, took it off and swam around nude the whole day. The entire set was closed down to all but necessary crew and still photographers Monroe had asked to come in, like William Woodfield. Monroe's last day on the set On June 1, 1962 Monroe, Martin and Wally Cox shot a scene in the courtyard set. The day marked Monroe's 36th birthday, though the studio didn't even buy a cake. Monroe's stand-in, Evelyn Moriarty, bought a seven dollar sheet cake at the Los Angeles Farmer's Market. A studio illustrator drew a card of a cartoon of a nude Monroe holding a towel. It read, "Happy Birthday Suit". The cast and crew signed it. The cast attempted to celebrate when Marilyn arrived; however Cukor blew up and insisted they wait until 6pm because, "he wanted to get a full days work out of her." It would be Monroe's last day on the set. She left the party with co-star Wally Cox. She borrowed the fur trimmed suit she had worn while filming that day because she was to attend a Muscular Dystrophy fund raiser at Dodger Stadium that evening with Joe Dimaggio. Monroe is fired On Monday morning, producer Henry Weinstein got the call he dreaded. Monroe was on the other line telling him she wouldn't be there again that day. The cold night air of the Dodgers game had caused a flare up of the sinusitis, her temperature spiked 100 F. A meeting of studio suits quickly assembled. Cukor strongly endorsed her release from the picture. Marilyn's absence of 17 out of 30 shooting days led to her termination from the project on Friday, June 8, 1962. [edit] Subsequent events Monroe was to be replaced with actress Lee Remick, who was fitted into Monroe's costumes and photographed with Cukor. But Dean Martin had leading lady approval and stated, "No Marilyn, No Picture." The project seemingly ended there. Realising they had thrown $2 million away, Fox agreed to re-hire Monroe. They agreed to pay her more than her previous salary of $100,000. But first she had to agree to two more films for Fox. She accepted the offer on the condition that George Cukor was replaced with Jean Negulesco, who had directed her in How To Marry A Millionaire. Filming was planned to resume in October, a plan which was abandoned when Monroe died on August 5th. Years later, some footage is released Nine hours of footage from the film sat in the vaults at 20th Century Fox until 1999, when it was digitally restored by Prometheus Entertainment and reconstructed into a semi-coherent, 32-minute segment for the two-hour documentary, Marilyn: The Final Days. It first aired on American Movie Classics on June 1, 2001, which would have been Monroe's 75th birthday. Marilyn died young, which may explain her cinematic immortality, since she never had the opportunity to fade away on screen in front of her countless fans. Much has been written, said and whispered about Marilyn's death, was it suicide... an accident... or murder? It's doubtless that the rumors will never stop swirling because there are no eyewitnesses to testify as to what happened in Marilyn's bedroom on the eve of her death. . |
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