This Year's Blonde
This Year's Blonde is a 1980 American made-for-television drama film directed by John Erman and starring Constance Forslund as 1950s sex symbol 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 3-night TV special event on NBC called Moviola: A Hollywood Saga.[1]
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| Directed by | John Erman |
| Written by | Garson Kanin (novel) James Lee (teleplay) |
| Starring | Constance Forslund Lloyd Bridges Norman Fell |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
Release date | May 18, 1980 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
This Year's Blonde was the first of two TV movies about Monroe in 1980, the second being Marilyn: The Untold Story, starring Catherine Hicks.
Cast
- 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
- 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
- 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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