APRIL 1952

 

The picture with Marilyn Monroe was taken at this Owl Rexall drugstore. It was located at the corner of Beverly and La Cienega Boulevards (near the border of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills), the sleek,huge, ultramodern drugstore with its curved facade of the Owl Rexall Drug signage opened in the fall of 1947 and is shown here in a publicity photo taken shortly thereafter.

 

RAY ANTHONY PARTY AUGUST 3rd 1952

George interviews Marilyn and Ray at a party given by Ray Anthony at his home in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley for Marilyn in 1952 during the time she was filming Niagara.  A little known fact is that she didn’t actually arrive in the Navy helicopter, but rather by car. She posed in the helicopter for Look magazine after it had landed.



 

PREMIERE ‘HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE’ 4TH NOVEMBER 1953