This Year's Blonde
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| This Year's Blonde | |
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| Based on | Moviola by Garson Kanin |
| Teleplay by | James Lee |
| Directed by | John Erman |
| Starring | Constance Forslund Lloyd Bridges Norman Fell Vic Tayback |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Release | May 18, 1980 |
This Year's Blonde is a 1980 American television film directed by John Erman and starring Constance Forslund as Marilyn Monroe, Lloyd Bridges as Johnny Hyde, and Norman Fell. Based on the Garson Kanin novel Moviola[1] about Monroe, the film was presented as part of a three-night TV special event on NBC titled Moviola: A Hollywood Saga.[1]
This Year's Blonde was the first of two TV movies about Monroe in 1980; the second was Marilyn: The Untold Story, starring Catherine Hicks.
Cast
[edit]- Constance Forslund as Marilyn Monroe
- Lloyd Bridges as Johnny Hyde
- Norman Fell as Pat Toledo
- Vic Tayback as Harry Cohn
- Michael Lerner as Jack L. 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
See also
[edit]- Moviola, 1979 novel by Garson Kanin, source material for this film
- The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), the third installment of TV miniseries Moviola: A Hollywood Saga
References
[edit]- ^ a b 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. ISBN 9780786454372. Retrieved December 29, 2011.
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- 1980 television films
- 1980 films
- 1980 drama films
- American biographical drama films
- Films set in Los Angeles
- Films set in the 1940s
- Films set in the 1950s
- Films about Marilyn Monroe
- Films based on American novels
- NBC original films
- Films directed by John Erman
- Films scored by Elmer Bernstein
- 1980s American films
- 1980s English-language films
- English-language biographical drama films
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