Marilyn Monroe in Something's Got To Give

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Something's Got to Give is one of the most notorious unfinished films in Hollywood history.It was produced in 1962 by a then-floundering 20th Century Fox. The film paired the studio's most bankable star of the 1950s — Marilyn Monroe — with Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse. With a troubled star and belligerent director, George Cukor, causing delays on a daily basis the film quickly descended into a costly debacle.
On the first day of production, April 23, 1962, Monroe telephoned Weinstein to tell him that she had a severe sinus infection, and would not be on the set that morning. Apparently, she had caught the infection after a trip to New York City during which she had visited her acting coach, Lee Strasberg of The Actors Studio, to go over her role. The studio sent staff doctor Lee Siegel to examine the star at her home. His diagnosis would have postponed the movie for a month, but George Cukor refused to wait.
Instead, Cukor reorganized his shooting schedule to film scenes around his leading lady. At 7:30am, Cyd Charisse was telephoned at her residence with a request that she come to the Fox lot as soon as possible. Later that morning, the very first scene captured on film involved Martin's character and Charisse, in an encounter with children building a tree house.

Over the next month production continued mostly without Monroe, who showed up only occasionally. The production began to fall behind schedule. As Kennedy's birthday approached, no one on the production thought Monroe would keep her commitment to the White House and miss almost a week of shooting, but she did. Studio documents released after Monroe's death confirmed that her appearance at the political fundraising event was approved by Fox executives.

On Monday morning(after her birthday that weekend),producer Henry Weinstein got the call he dreaded. Monroe was on the other line telling him she wouldn't be there again that day.
They fired Marilyn, and started planning on replacing her with actress Lee Remick, but when Dean Martin heard about it,he got very upset and stated "No Marilyn, no picture." and the project on replacing her seemingly ended there, so she was re-hired,and got a raise but had to agree to make two more films for Fox. She accepted the offer.

But Plans to resume filming in October were abandoned when Monroe died on August 5th.

The death of Marilyn Monroe resulted in the film's cancellation.

Nine hours of footage from the film sat in the vaults at 20th Century Fox until 1999, when it was digitally restored by Prometheus Entertainment and reconstructed into a semi-coherent, 32-minute segment for the two-hour documentary, Marilyn: The Final Days. It first aired on American Movie Classics on June 1, 2001, which would have been Monroe's 75th birthday.

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[CaliforniaDreamin1]

thank you all so much!im so glad you liked it!=)

[Paulaminnie]

She's so beautiful!

[isainathan]

I cannot believe how beautiful she looked towards the last days of her life. Whoever says she commited suicide is so wrong...look at how radiant and relaxed she was. She was also going to remarry DiMaggio. She's such an American Legend forever.

[escutigera]

I love Marilyn because se was a huge fighter, and desspite all her health problems during the filming she was abosolutely beautiful and and professional, when, she was able to appear in the set. Marilyn I'm so proud of you, it wasn't easy to be Marilyn/Norma. I love you forever!

[freeyourmad]

@isainathan Um, you should probably do some research. Marilyn was a superstar, yes, but she still lived such a tragic life. No one can laugh and smile like Marilyn even if they tried, but there was still a lot of negativity about her. It's sad, really. Such a fragile woman she was, and her intelligence was so harsh on her.

[stp88661]

Damn this woman was soooooo beautiful, she just seemed to get more gorgeous as time progressed! Megan Fox you are sooooo damn ignorant! You will never hold a candle to Marilyn in talent, beauty & poise! You'll be damn lucky if you even look half as good as MM at age 36, or for that matter, even have an acting career to speak of.

[duesenbergmj]

atherial......................­

[MrAshleystone]

She was NEVER a size 14, at Best a Healthy size12 But had the Genetic luck to have a true 'Hourglass' figure check out the report of a Journalist who tried to fit into some of her Dresses,and couldn't even get them past her thigh!! ( By the way she's a 12!).

[MissLolaAnn]

@ThePharaoho I'm not 100% about this film, but she was for most of her life. She just wore extremely expensive clothes and dressed for her body type. Most women would look that good if they realised that and had the money. :p

[ThePharaoho]

@MissLolaAnn A size 14? Are you certain? In this film? Maybe in some like it hot but not here. If she was, she defied the laws of physics because she is stunningly gorgeous here: face and body. She's always been beautiful and had curves but it seemed the older she got the more beautiful she became. I wonder why other women who wear size 14's don't look like this...body wise I mean...

[stp88661]

Maryilyn - Roy - by way of California Dreamin make beautiful music together.

[ALILLY07]

@isainathan She was always radiant and beautiful!! However, there was a lot to suggest she did not commit suicide, Joe DiMaggio had a personal autopsy done that stated there were no drugs of any kind in her system at the time of her death... unfortunately none of that can be proven, only suggested that she knew too much from the time she spent with the Kennedy family.  On a side note, she was a size 8 (the average size of most women)