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We're Not Married (1952)
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Compilation of sketchs in which, accoording to screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, the part held by Marilyn - the one of a particpant to a beauty contest who discovers that she can't compete to the Mrs America election because her wedding isn't technically valid - has been created only because it allowed to show on screen the starlet in 2 bathsuits. It was one of the main movies in which Marilyn was put to take advantage of her growing popularity, while the Fox wasn't ready yet to give her her first part.
Production
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Black leotard and sash
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White dress
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Wardrobe tests
cape 
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black bathsuit 
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white bathsuit 
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white and red dress 
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white lace dress 
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CREDIT
Twentieth Century-Fox, black & white
Runtime : 85 mn
Release date : July 12, 1952.
Director : Edmund Goulding
Producer : Nunnally Johnson
Screenplay
: Nunnally Johnson
(script)
Dwight
Taylor (adaptation)
Jay
Dratler (plot)
Gina Kaus (plot)
Director of photography : Leo Tover
Film editing : Louis R. Loeffler
Music : Cyril J. Mockridge
Production
: Leland Fuller, Lyle R. Wheeler
Costumes : Eloise Jensson.
CAST
Ginger
Rogers - Ramona Gladwyn
Fred Allen
- Steve Gladwyn
Victor
Moore - Justice of the Peace Melvin Bush
Marilyn
Monroe - Annabel Norris
David Wayne
- Jeff Norris
Eve Arden -
Katie Woodruff
Paul
Douglas - Hector Woodruff
Eddie
Bracken - Willie Fisher
Mitzi
Gaynor - Patsy Fisher
Louis
Calhern - Freddie Melrose
Zsa Zsa
Gabor - Eve Melrose
James
Gleason - Duffy
Paul
Stewart - attorney Stone
Jane Darwell - Mrs Bush.
UNCREDITED
Harry Antrim - Justice of the Peace
Al Bridge - Det. Magnus
Richard Buckley - Mr Graves
James Burke - Willie's sergeant
Harry Carter - postman
Maurice Cass - radio station organist
Robert Dane - MP atrailroad station
Ralph Dumke
- Twitchell
Kay English
- wife
Eddie Firestone - man in radio station
Robert Stevenson - MP
Harry
Golder - radio annoncer
Alvin
Greenman - radio stations sound effects man
Dabbs Greer
- spectator at Miss Mississippi contest
Harry
Harvey - Ned
Selmer Jackson - chaplain Hall
Margie Liszt - Irene
Lee Marvin - Pinky
Edwin Max - lunchroom counterman
Emile Meyer - Miss Mississippi contest announcer
Forbes Murray - governor of Mississippi
Tom Powers - Attorney General
Victor Sutherland - Gov. Bush
Maude Wallace - autograph hound
Marjorie
Weaver - Ruthie
O.Z.
Whitehead - postman.
TECHNICAL CREW
Claude E. Carpenter - set decoration
W.D. Flick - sound
Leland Fuller - art direction
Paul Helmick - assistant director
Roger Heman - sound
Ray Kellogg - special effects
Charles LeMaire - costumes
Thomas Little - set decoration
Bernard Mayers - orchestrator
Lionel Newman - music
Ben Nye - make-up
Helen Turpin - hair stylist
Lyle R. Wheeler - art direction.
SYNOPSIS
Group of 5 stories mixed together about 5 couples who, 2 years and a half after having been joined in matrimony, discover that they're not (and have never been) married.
Actually, the justice of the peace who had joined them, Melvin Bush (played by Victor Moore), has celebrated the ceremonies few days before his licence was valid.
Marilyn played the pretty Annabel Norris, Mrs Mississippi in the heading, has entered the lists for the Mrs America contest.
Her husband, Jeff Norris (David Wayne), doesn't appreciate that his wife "career" takes her mind off her houswife and mother's duties. The news they're not married comes as a bombshell and delights Jeff - his wife can't, from then on, take part in the Mrs America contest - but he soon discovers that Annabel intends to take part in this contest and to win it.
The sketch in which Marilyn's appears, ends on the couple remarriage.
The 4 other couples, astounded not to be married, are played by Ginger Rogers and Fred Allen, Paul Douglas and Eve Arden, Eddie Bracken and Mitzi Gaynor, Louis Calhern and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
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