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Saturday, October 5, 2013

Popularity Contest

Sheree North in How to Be Very, Very Popular (20th Century Fox, 1955)

"Sheree North, going great guns, is signed, sealed, and will be delivered for the starring role in Garson Kanin's Do Re Mi, a rock and roll racketeering story with racketeers trying to muscle into the music business. Frank Tashlin will produce and direct for 20th Century..." -- Hedda Hopper's column, July 12, 1956

"When you get some good comedy situations in a picture, you're glad you're in it. I don't have the comedy in my latest...but I do in the next, Do Re Mi...when I read the story, I never dreamed I'd get to do it!" -- Sheree North in Aline Mosby's column, August 20, 1956

Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can't Help It [originally announced as Do Re Mi] (20th Century Fox, 1956)
"[Sheree North] is a very competent little actress. We don't compete for the same parts." -- Jayne Mansfield to columnist Aline Mosby, September 20, 1956


Jayne Mansfield in It Happened in Athens (20th Century Fox, 1962)

Jayne Mansfield publicity photo for Hell on Frisco Bay (Warner Bros., 1955)
"Oh, I couldn't be happier! [20th Century Fox] is so nice...Frank Tashlin said he had to have me for Do Re Mi...so [Fox] bought the play [Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?] and got me out of [my Broadway contract], and here I am!" -- Jayne Mansfield to columnist Bob Thomas, September 26, 1956

Sheree North in How to Be Very, Very Popular (20th Century Fox, 1955)
Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can't Help It (20th Century Fox, 1956)


Friday, June 28, 2013

Monday, April 29, 2013

A Tale of Two Toms

Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (20th Century Fox, 1955)
Tom Ewell and Sheree North in The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (20th Century Fox, 1956)
Tom Ewell and Jayne Mansfield in The Girl Can't Help It (20th Century Fox, 1956)
TOM EWELL
April 29, 1909 - September 12, 1994

Tommy Noonan and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (20th Century Fox, 1953)
Tommy Noonan and Sheree North (with Orson Bean) in How to Be Very, Very Popular (20th Century Fox, 1955)
Tommy Noonan and Jayne Mansfield in Promises! Promises! (NTD, 1963)
Tommy Noonan and Mamie Van Doren in Three Nuts in Search of a Bolt (Harlequin, 1964)

TOMMY NOONAN
April 29, 1921 - April 24, 1968
Blondes, apparently, preferred them.