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Listening to the song all the way through brought tears to my eyes. And Wes' voice is still this good! Christine Trzyna
We want to thank Arne once again for posting this video on Youtube! The video with all the Marilyn Monroe and James Dean art is very beautiful and we know it took a lot of effort to do this! So THANK YOU!
Marilyn Monroe was Elvis' favorite actress - and mine. She was an "older woman" but ahead of her time.
She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles.
On January 14, 1954, Marilyn married baseball star Joe DiMaggio at San Francisco's City Hall.
On August 5, 1962, Marilyn was found dead.
We heard all the horrible rumors that made it into books as exposes years later at the time. We were upset by Marilyn's death. The idea that anyone so young would have overdosed on prescription drugs was almost unthinkable.
Joe orchestrated her funeral, giving her the dignity and respect in death that he didn't think she got in life. No big Micheal Jackson extravaganzas like the recent one, which cost the tax payers of Los Angeles County, which is in a Great Depression-like economy right now, something like 2.5 million for the day.
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Despite his fame, Elvis and Marilyn never met. They didn't run in the same Hollywood circles. I almost met her in New York when I was studying acting with Lee Strasberg at Actors Studio.
I attended the Academy Awards a couple times because Phil Sadona, who was on the board of the Academy liked me and gave me tickets. He was one of the people who felt that I should not give up on acting. Phil had once had a contract with 20th Century Fox at the same time as Marilyn Monroe, my favorite actress. He had curly black hair and looked like the old actor Errol Flynn. He used the stage name Tony Roman when he was an actor.
There is always controversy over the Academy Awards and how the Academy selects the winners. But I believe that the Academy Awards has elevated the art of acting and that this is a coveted and desireable acheivement to be recognized by them.
