My journey ends here...
1953
Marilyn moved in a new apartment located 882 North Doheny Drive in Beverly
Hills (
,
,
,
).
JANUARY:
Thursday, January 1st, Marilyn attended the Cinemascope party, given at the Cocoanut Grove
(
) of the Ambassador Hotel
,in Los Angeles. Donald O’Connor, her future partner in "There’s No Business Like Show Business" (
), reporter Louella Parsons (
), composer Cole
Porter
(
,
) and Joe DiMaggio (
,
) also attended the party (
,
).
Marilyn and Joe made an agreement : she promised not to wear in public her low-cut dresses who embarrassed him a lot, and he would try to be more patient toward her and more polite with Natasha Lytess, for who he still had an antipathy probably equal to the one she also had toward him.
Friday, January 2, fitting of the costumes for "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (
,
).
Wednesday, January 21 : release of "Niagara" (
,
,
,
). The crtics were divided.
The earnings of the movie would be 6 millions $, for an investment, at first, of 1.5 millions $, and that, despite the threat of boycott from some groups, declaring that the movie was indecent. Marilyn then, turned out to be one of the biggest attractions of the country.
Monday, January 26, Marilyn received the "State's Most Popular Movie Actress" award (
), presented by the Independent Theater Owners of Arkansas (
,
). She was on the cover of NAS (Naval Air Station) magazine, for having been elected Miss
NAS 1952 (
,
,
).
FEBRUARY:
Monday, February 9 : on Grace McKee-Goddard's advice, Gladys once again entered a private institution more comfortable, the Rockhaven Sanatorium, in
Verdugo City, District of Glendale. Marilyn paid 250$ a month for the expenses.
Monday, February 9 : Photoplay magazine organized the prize-giving of the "Fastest Rising Star of 1952"
(
), in Marilyn's honor (
,
,
,
,
).
The reception took place in the Crystal Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel. The master of ceremony was, this evening, Jerry Lewis.
Marilyn was accompanied with her friend, reporter Sidney Skolsky (
). DiMaggio, wanting to avoid the public appearances, was away.
His jealousy even urged him to make surprised appearances on Marilyn's shootings.
She wore a gold lamé dress, specially designed for her by William Travilla (
,
,
), the same she wore in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". She was the focal point when she arrived, dressed with this dress "which seemed to have been painted on her" (,), as reporter Florabel Muir reported it the following day in her article « Florabel Muir
reporting » dated February 10, published in the Los Angeles Mirror.
"It just needs a movement of her backside so that Marilyn Monroe steals
the show...Every guests began to applaud , while 2 other movie
stars, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner, were hardly looked. Next to
Marilyn, every others seemed so dull".
Saturday, February 14 : she made a picture session with Andre De Dienes
(
,
), and attented, with Sidney
Skolsky (
,
), the wedding of reporter
Sheila Graham (
,
,
).
Thursday, February 19 : Marilyn went to Charles Feldman's place, in order to discuss of a possible contract between them, the Feldman's agency representing her and Feldman wanting to become her agent. But the contract wasn't signed this day. Nevertheless, Feldman kept working for her, for free, hoping that one day, she would sign the contract.
MARCH :
Monday, March 2 : an interview of actress Joan Crawford was published in the Associated Press article of Bob Thomas, of the Hollywood Citizen-News. She publicly denounced the "ridiculous show" of Marilyn, reminding that "the public likes provocative feminine personalities, but it also likes to know that, underneath, the actresses are ladies...Young people don't like (Marilyn)...because they don't like to see that sex is exploited. And don't forget the women.They don't drag their family to movie theater if the film doesn't fit with their husband and children".
Marilyn chose Louella Parsons's column in the Herald Examiner to answer to the actress Joan Crawford, who had burst out against her suggestive dress at the ceremony of Photoplay prize-giving, by quietly giving up the fight with her enemy : "What hurts me more in what Miss Crawford said, is that I have always admired her to be such a wonderful mother - to have adopted 4 children and have given them a family. I'm well-placed to know what means not to have a house when you're a child".Once again, Marilyn triumphed by using, with elegance, her past misfortunes.
Friday, March 6 : the shooting of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" ended.
Marilyn still studied with Michael Tchekhov, who helped her to prepare the scenes of her next movie,"How to Marry a Millionaire". Tchekhov also sent her to take drama lessons with Lotte
Goslar, who ran the Turnabout
Theater in Hollywood.
Monday, March 9 : beginning of the shooting of "How to Marry a Millionaire", directed by Jean Negulesco (
), with Betty Grable and Lauren
Bacall (
,
,
).
3 adventuresses shared their funds, rented an apartment in Manhattan and chased rich husbands.
The shooting began only several days after Marilyn had finished "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes".
The Fox was proud of her first movie in Cinemascope, a process supposed to supplant the television, with 3 top-billing stars.
Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson
(
) added that he had created the characters, fitting them to the 3 actresses personality.
Despite
the efforts of the studio to "sell" to the press a war between Marilyn
and Betty Grable, the 2 actresses got on well together.
At
the beginning, Marilyn claimed the part of Loco, attributed
to Betty Grable, because she didn't like her own character, Pola,
decked out with glasses (
,
). Jean Negulesco, the director, convinced her to accept,
pointing
out that it was the best part. And he was right : the funny thing
generated by the short-sightedness earned Marilyn positive critics
about her comic talent.
However, she didn't consider her performance as one of the best ones.
On the set, Jean Negulesco, exasperated by Natasha Lytess's unceasing interventions, lost patience and dismissed her, on Monday, April 13.
The following day, Marilyn didn't attend the shooting, under the
pretext of a bronchitis. Charles Feldman, Marilyn's agent, announced
that she couldn't shoot without her drama teacher, and Natasha
Lytess was re-engaged.
Jean Negulesco belonged to the same group of directors who refused to publicly comment the issues with Marilyn during a shooting.
In March, she received the "Best Young Box Office Personality" award (
) by Redbook magazine
(
,
,
). Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis also attended this party
(
,
).
She
found herself facing her loneliness when Joe DiMaggio began to travel
more and more for his business. She had got used to his paternalistic
critics and his light condescending protective side, and his absence
seemed to bring again the abandonment feeling she had known before
(during her youth and when Jim Dougherty had gone to the war).
So Marilyn turned to her substitute father, her friend Sidney Skolsky, source of reassurance and friendship.
APRIL
Saturday, April 11,
fitting of the costumes for "River of No Return" : 
.
Thursday, April 16, she received the "Halo for
a saintly sinner" award (
) for her help in the milk supply to schoolchildren : 
.
End of April, she ended the shooting of "How to Marry a Millionaire".
MAY :
DiMaggio still wanted her to give up her profession, but, because she refused to leave cinema, he did everythng he could to help and advise her. Marilyn's salary increased to 1 250$ a week. This sum was quite negligible with regards to the success of "Niagara".
To DiMaggio, Lloyd Wright, Marilyn's new lawyer and Charles Feldman, her agent, there were no doubt that her contract with theFox should be renegotiated. At that time, Feldman wasn't yet paid to represent her , because the current contract she had, had been negotiated by Johnny Hyde and the commission due to the agent on Marilyn's each salary, kept being paid to the William Morris Agency.
Wednesday, May 20, she attended the Parsons Radio Show (
,
). Louella Parsons had visited her on the set of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" :
.
JUNE :
Saturday, June 6, fitting of the costumes for "River of No Return" : 
,
.
Monday, June 8:
new fitting of the costumes for "River of No Return": 
.
The Fox had offered her the part of a saloon singer in this western.
A farmer, former prisoner, met his son he had lost, living with a singer in a pit workers camp.
Cheated by her boyfriend's cupidity, the trio (Marilyn, Robert Mitchum and little Tommy Rettig (
,
,
))
ended in the middle of a gorgeous landscape (the Rockies) where
it had to fight against the dangerous rapids of the river which gave
its name to the movie, a group of Indians eager for having another
white scalp, a starving lynx and gold-diggers who appeared suddenly and
threatened them witht heir guns. After having more or less come down
the last part of the river on a fragile raft, they arrived in a town
where they dealt with a last shoot-out, from which they pulled through
safe and sound, before starting a happy family.
It was Marilyn's 22nd movie and her 5th leading part.
For
the part of Kay, she had to sing 4 songs : a popular romantic one
"One Silver Dollar", a light one "I’m Gonna File my Claim", one
to distract the boy "Down in the Meadow" and the song which gave its
name to the film title "River of No Return" :
.
Another problem of the movie was the choice of the director, Otto Preminger (
,
).
He had the reputation to behave in judge and headman toward the actors and technicians, an authoritarian man who could make crying the toughest actor.
If Marilyn wasn't delighted to shoot this movie, to Preminger, it was absolutely not the kind of film in which he culturally felt comfortable, and his mood suffered from it since the beginning of the shooting.
Wednesday, June 17, a party was given for Charles Coburn's birthday (
,
,
,
), to which also attended Jane Russell and Ronald Reagan, at that time actor
(
,
).
The Masquers Rib & Roast Dinner took place at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
After, she gave an interview to reporter Earl Wilson (
,
,
).
Friday, June 26 : during the publicity campaign of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", she left her prints in cement
(
), with
Jane Russell, in front of the Grauman’s
Chinese Theater, located 6774 Hollywood Boulevard, following a tradition created by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in the 20's (
,
,
,
,
,
).
DiMaggio
didn't attend but joined them at the Chasen’s restaurant (
,
,
).
JULY :
Wednesday, July 8 : for the occasion of the release of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes",
Marilyn received "The Best Friend a Diamond ever Had" award (
) by the Jewelry Academy (
,
,
,
,
).
Friday 10 or Saturday 11, she attended the gala organized by the actor Danny Thomas (
,
) for the creation of the Jude's
Hospital, in Memphis, Tennessee. The gala took place at the Hollywood Bowl and Jane
Russell, Robert Mitchum (
) and Danny Kaye (
) , among others (
,
,
), attended too.
Saturday, July 11, she did some shopping at the Beverly Silks and Woolens store :
.
Wednesday, July 15 : release of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"(
;
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
).
Darryl
Zanuck, the Fox manager refuted an article of Dorothy Kilgallen, in which the New York reporter
wrote that Marilyn didn't sing herself in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", sending a denial under oath.
Since this moment, Dorothy Kilgallen spread over praises on Marilyn's singer talents.
Louella Parsons, reporter and columnist at the Herald Examiner, Marilyn's big ally, took side for her, in order to cast a veil on the rumors, and to give in general, a positive turn to events, not much flattering at the beginning.
. She made a stopover in Vancouver (
,
), before joining Jasper (
,
,
,
).
AUGUST:
Beginning of the shooting of "River of No Return" in Canada. Marilyn stayed at the Banff Springs Hotel (
,
).
The shots took place in the national parks of Banff and Jasper, Alberta, in the middle of the Canadian Rockies
(
,
,
,
,
;
).
The
shooting was physically very demanding for Marilyn : the physical
demands imposed to her outdoor as in studio (she had to fight against
real and put-on rapids), didn't help either to calm down the
tension which reigned on the set: A lot was required from her
during this shooting, and she never complained. She didn't ignore the
confines of cinema, and once on the set , she behaved in real
professional (
,,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
).
She clashed with the director Otto Preminger. This one clearly made her understand that he was working on this movie only because he owed it through his contract to the Fox. Darryl Zanuck had held out the prospect of the new Cinemascope technology to him.
Preminger was also very annoyed by Natasha Lytess's omnipresence (
,
,
) and managed to suspend her.
Marilyn called Feldman to quickly settle the situation. This one contacted Zanuck, who knew perfectly well that Marilyn was the increasing value, supported her against Preminger, then, he had to admit Natasha Lytess presence on the set.
Preminger insisted on making his stars doing themselves their stunts, which was with consequences for Marilyn who remained trapped with her partner, Robert Mitchum, in the rapids where they had to be rescued.
Wednesday, August 19 : Marilyn hurt her ankle by falling from the raft on which she stood for the shooting.
A local doctor diagnosed a possible sprain and the doctors of the studio didn't see anything serious, but Marilyn insisted on wearing a plaster cast , and for few days, she limped slightly on her crutches, posing for the press (
,
,
;
,
,
,
).Marilyn's
performance was all the more remarkable so as she was rarely
allowed to have a moment of calmness, whatever it was in Canada or in
the Fox studios in Los Angeles.
The
press agents had organized a real crowd of reporters to collect
countless interviews; Zanuck or one of his henchmen, called her
daily to break the news about Preminger's recriminations against Natasha Lytess.
While
Marilyn was shooting, Joe went hunting or fishing, then waited
for her in their bungalow in Jasper (Alberta) (one of those
Becker’s Bungalows where the whole crew had found a place to
stay) or at the Mount Royal Hotel in Banff
, when the production moved to a new location (
,
,
,
).
DiMaggio learned Marilyn how to play golf :
.
It was her friend Allan Whitey Snyder
(
,
) who take care of her make-up during the shooting, and the hairstylist Gladys
Rasmussen of her hair (
,
).
Photographers John Florea (
,
) and John Vachon (
,
,
,
) took pictures of her during the shooting.
Marilyn began to feel frustrated by the parts attributed to her and the poor sums of money she earned, compare to the success of her movies.
During
this year, the RCA sold, in 3 weeks, more than 75 000 records
of "I’m Gonna File my Claim", a song Marilyn performed in "River
of No Return".
,
,
,
,
,
).
SEPTEMBER :
Tuesday, September 1st : Marilyn left Seattle (
) to Los
Angeles (
,
) : she still had to shoot the indoor scenes, at the Fox studios.
When she arrived at the airport, a multitude of more than 100 reporters and photographers scrambled for approaching her, taking picture after picture of her, and asking her many questions, shouting and applauding her.
Back from the shooting, in Hollywood, DiMaggio settled at Marilyn's home, 882 North Doheny Drive.
During the shooting, she had the visit of her friend, the actress Shelley Winters (
,
).
Sunday, September 13: she began on television with presenter Jack
Benny in the Jack Benny Show, recorded at the Shrine Auditorium (
). The rehearsals had taken place on Thursday, September 10 (
,
,
,
).
This day, Natasha Lytess was there (
), and it was the hairstylist Gladys Rasmussen who took care of her hair
(
) and her friend Whitey Snyder who put make-up on her (
).
Marilyn played a sketch with him, "Honolulu Trip" (
,
,
) and sang "Bye, Bye, Baby", a song from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". The program was broadcasted on CBS.
Her
contract with the Fox didn't allow her to earn the less fee for this
kind of performance, but she could accept a gift in kind, like the
black convertible Cadillac, with red leather inside she received (
).
Monday, September 28 Grace McKee-Goddard was found out unconscious on the bed of her small bungalow in Van Nuys, dead (
) of a barbiturates overdose (
), after years of alcoholism which had weakened her
(
).
Marilyn took care of the formalities but didn't attend the funeral, which took place on Thursday, October 1st at the Westwood Memorial Park (
).
Marilyn's
absence at the funeral wasn't so linked to her shyness than to
the fact that for years, the 2 women hadn't had partically any
relations. Grace, who had actually been the instigator of
Marilyn's career had been excluded of the magical circle at the
moment of success, and indeed, she didn't attend galas and
prestigious events in Hollywood. Through the years, their contact
frayed and their correspondance only concerned Gladys material needs or
housing problems. Marilyn's disaffection was, at least partly, due to
the fact Grace had sunk in alcohol and drugs addiction , a view
which had terrified Marilyn during her 2 visits in 1949 and 1951; thus, she had avoided any new meeting afterwards.
In this respect, Grace could only remind her Gladys slow deterioration.
She gave an interview, at home, in Doheny
Drive, with Sidney Skolsky (
,
,
,
), for Modern Screen magazine (
,
,
), which was published in October.
It was photographer Bob Beerman who took her in picture, to accompany Sidney Skolsky's article
(
,
,
,
,
).
OCTOBER:
Photographer Milton Greene (Marilyn had met him in 1949) arrived in Los Angeles with his new wife, Amy, a former model of photographer Richard Avedon, who from then on, worked as fashion advisor.
Marilyn made a picture session with for Look magazine (
; he made several portraits of Marilyn
(
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
).
Ther pictures were published in the magazine issue dated November 17, 1953.
Milton had witnessed Marilyn's recriminations against the system of the big studios, her salary ridiculously low ( 1 500$ a week) compare to the fantastic amounts her movies brought in to the Fox, and her weariness about parts always reducing her in same parts.
Milton suggested her they could found their own production company, find themselves the financing, choose the subjects and directors, and bet their efforts on Marilyn's career. So was given a crucial turn to Marilyn's professional life, and at the same time she and Milton began to discuss with their respective lawyers, she went into a complex task which was about to dramatically change her existence, forcing her to leave Hollywood for more than a year and make the studio actors long-term contract change. In other words, Milton not only gave her lots of advice, consideration and attention, but also a proposition to represent her which largely exceeded everything the impresarios had offered her since Johnny Hyde's death.He had known how to make her sublime in few simple pictures.
Saturday,October 10 : Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio went to San Francisco. They lived in Joe's house, in Beach Street.
DiMaggio represented the ideal husband, and the tabloids published happily, with full of details, every episode of the romance : the couple lived in San Francisco in an humble house, went fishing, Mamma DiMaggio and Marie, Joe's single sister, learned Marilyn the recipe of Joe's favourite spaghetti sauce...
Sunday, October 11, they attended a base-ball game (
,
).
She attended the premiere of "5 000 Fingers for Mister T" with Tommy Rettig, her young partner in "River of No Return"
(
,
).
In October, Marilyn attended a party given for the benefit of the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund at the Ciro’s.
At this party also attended many celebrities, including Betty Grable (
,
,
), Jane Russell, Jimmy McHugh (
,
), reporters Sheila
Graham
,
),Walter Winchell (
,
,
,
,
) and Louella Parsons (
,
,
,
), Darryl Zanuck and Joe Schenck (
,
).
NOVEMBER:
Wednesday, November 4, premiere
of "How to Marry a Millionaire ?" (
,
,
,
,
,
), at the Fox-Wilshire
Theater, where she could measure up the quailty of her performance.
Her friend, make-up artist Whitey Snyder
(
) and hairstylist Gladys Rasmussen
(
) helped her to prepare for this party (
,
). Her friend, the actress Shelley Winters also attended (
).
At the cocktail party prior to the premiere (which took place at screenwriter Nunnally Johnson's home, with his wife Doris, and Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall), Marilyn, tense, had drunk several bourbon-sodas and was visibly tipsy when she crossed the screaming crowd to come in the theater.
To Marilyn, this party was a triumph : "It was the most beautiful party of my life. It was like when I was a child and I dreamt that wonderful things happened to me. But it's weird how the success can attract the people's hate on you. I wish that it woudn't happen. It would be terrific to take advantage of success without seeing jealousy in the eyes of the people surrouding you".
She should think of Natasha Lytess as well as the other actresses who were so many rivals. Appointed coach and occasional dresser, Natasha had revealed herself as, according to Marilyn "completely crazy to ask my lawyer for 5 000$ to cover her surgery expenses. I'm really fed up and I realize that she was a very cunning woman. But, I don't want her to loose her job at the Fox".This sudden change of attitude of Marilyn toward Natasha Lytess had an explanation. After more than 20 movies shot under her authority, it was obvious that none of Marilyn's colleague had ever approved the tactic of this coach or even appreciated her interventions. After, the complaints had so much piled up that Marilyn couldn't ignore them anymore. Furthermore, she was having more self-confidence; then, she wanted to please Joe.
Then she attended the party give at director Jean Negulesco's place (
,
,
).
Tuesday, November 10 : release of "How to Marry a Millionaire?" (
;
,
,
,
,
).
Saturday, November 14, Marilyn was at the Fox where King Paul and Queen Frederika, Princess of de Hanover, came to visit the studios (
,
).
Tuesday, November 17 : publishing of the issue of Look magazine (
)
including pictures of Marilyn taken by Milton Greene in Fall. To
thank him for the result she liked very much, Marilyn sent him a dozen
of roses.
Saturday, November 21: Joe left Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Marilyn learned that there would be a 10 days overrun to do some scenes of "River of No Return" again, and she was very cooperative.
This postponed the beginning of the shooting of the next movie she didn't want to do, "Pink Tights" to December 15.
Even the fact that Frank Sinatra co-starred with her had no effect, all the more since she had learned that he was paid 5 000$ a week, 3 times more than her (only 1 500$).
Saturday, November 21 : Joe went back to Los Angeles and called Lloyd Wright, Marilyn's lawyer, in order to organize a meeting. Joe didn't want Marilyn to shot another movie as long as she hadn't renegotiate her contract with the Fox. Marilyn confirmed him that she would refuse any movie until February, after her contract would be renogtiate.
Lawyer Lloyd Wright conveyed Marilyn and DiMaggio's demands to Charles
Feldman, who was in Switzerland, at his ex-wife bedside.
End of November, she spent Thanksgiving in San Francisco with Joe and his family.
DECEMBER
Friday, December 4 : Marilyn, back to Los Angeles, attended a charity party for children
(
,
,
,
;
).
Her make-up man Whitey Snyder and her hairstylist Gladys Rasmussen prepared her for this event (
,
,
).
Saturday, December 5 : she received a call from the Fox casting director, who asked her to come on Monday, December 7, for the rehearsals of "Pink Tights".
Monday, December 7 : she didn't come on the set, for the first day of shooting.
Tuesday, December 8 : Darryl Zanuck ordered her to come on the set to do the post-synchronization of a song of "River of No Return".
After having talked with Joe, Marilyn let know that she wouldn't come.
Zanuck went to see Natasha Lytess and put pressure on her so that Marilyn came back to the studio.
Natasha tried to call Marilyn but Joe
screened the phone calls and sent her to Marilyn's lawyer.
Marilyn was hurt and angry at Natasha's attitude, she took as a treason.
Zanuck then sent Roy Craft, from the Fox publicity department to see Marilyn at her home, in Doheny Drive. But Joe didn't let him come in.Frank
Ferguson, the studio's lawyer, was writing up a document officially notifying Marilyn of being present at the studio
(
).
Zanuck sent a telegram to Feldman, still in Switzerland, warning him that Marilyn's career was over if she didn't come to the studio.
The
Famous Artists,
the agency representing Marilyn, learned that the scenes of "River of
No Return", truly had to be done again, and so asked Marilyn to come
back on the set.
Friday, December 11 : she arrived at the studio. She worked there until December 23.
Saturday, December 12 and Sunday 13 : Charles Feldman met Spyros Skouras, president of the Fox, at the Plaza Athénée in Paris. They talked together about Marilyn's demands, that is to say, a more important payment (DiMaggio had explained her that it was a sign of respect and gratitude), she wanted to make less movies (Feldman had convinced her that it would make her more rare and so more precious) and she wanted to be able to choose the screenplays, the directors and head cameramen of each of her movies. But Zanuck, wanting to believe that only him took the decisions, Skouras advised Feldman to contact Zanuck directly and to negotiate with him.
Once the head of the Fox having given his agreement, Skouras took care of presenting the case to the Fox board of directors, in New York City.
Sunday, December 13, she attended, with Joe DiMaggio, a party at Bob Hope's place (
,
,
).
Wednesday, December 23 :
at 11.45 PM she left, in a Western Airlines plane, flight 440, under
the name of Miss Norma Dougherty to San Francisco (
).
DiMaggio waited for her in San Francisco, to spend the feasts in family.
In spite of the scenes prior to their wedding, Marilyn considered that Joe's love and loyalty overcame his jealousy.
In her opinion, he was her protector, her advisor, her ally against the
Hollywood egoism and intransigence, he was her "hitter", her
"Giuseppe", admired, loved by a close-knit family and the one who stood
firmly by her side.
Few days before the New Year's Eve, the Fox informed Marilyn that the shooting of "Pink Tights" would start on Monday, January 4, 1954.
In December,
Marilyn attended the "Toys
for Tot Campaign" sponsored by the US Marines Corps, in order to collect toys for underprivileged children (
.
The first issue of Playboy
magazine was published, with Marilyn on cover :
This year, she was taken in picture by Alfred Eisenstaedt (
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
) and Harold Lloyd (
,
;
,
,
,
,
) for Life magazine, by John Florea
(
,
,
) , by Bert Reisfield (
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
) and made a picture session with photographer Andre De Dienes at the Bel Air Hotel (
,
) and in Beverly Hills (
,
,
;
,
,
).
She continued her sessions for publicity pictures for cosmetics (
,
) and garden furniture
(
,
;
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
).
With Joe DiMaggio (
), she also attended the premiere of the play "Call me Madam" (
,
,
,
;
,
,
,
), a play in which played Ethel Merman, her partner in "There's No Business Like Show Business". HEr other partner, Donald O’Connor, also attended this party (
).
With Sidney Skolsky
(
) she attended a party given by a magazine (
,
,
).
She was elected "Miss Press Club" by the par le Los Angeles Press Club (
,
,
) , received the "New Faces Award" (
) from The Detroit Free Press magazine, which was presented to her by reporter Hedda Hopper ( 
) , the " World Film Favourite" award
(
) by The International Press of Hollywood and the award "To the sweetest girl in motion
pictures" by the 20th Century Fox Films Star (
).
,
) and taken in picture by Ben Ross (
,
,
,
).
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