5 December 2011 Category: Film | Tags: ben mankiewicz, ernest borgnine, eva marie saint, gentlemen prefer blondes, hollywood history, jack cole, norman jewison, robert osborne, scott eyman, tcm, tcm cruise, tippi hedren  Preparing for TCM Classic Cruise means organizing our Letters of Transport! [...] 4 January 2011  Like “Gentlemen”? Read more: Girl power 26 December 2010  One night in the early 1980s, the boss took his attractive protegee to dinner at the legendary LA restaurant, Chasen’s. The New Yorker Veronica Sue Cohen emerged with a California-friendly name. She didn’t look far for inspiration. [...] 10 November 2010  It was my great honor to join a panel at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival on Saturday, August 14, 2010, to honor the peerless jazz choreographer Jack Cole, whom I revere and about whom I have written. As a former Denishawn dancer, Cole had a distinct history at “The Pillow.” Here I contribute a snippet about Cole’s choreography for Marilyn Monroe in “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” [...] 24 June 2010  Jane Russell speaks at Hollywood Heritage about choreographer Jack Cole, who coached her and Marilyn Monroe in Howard Hawk’s comic masterpiece, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” She says Cole directed the film’s dance sequences. [...] 6 August 2009  Marilyn Monroe’s six-movie collaboration with Jack Cole began with 1953’s “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” the breakthrough film that made her a superstar. Yet the man behind the icon has been forgotten – an odd missing puzzle piece in view of Monroe’s staying power. [...] 4 July 2008  Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell are giant amazons in Howard Hawks’s comic masterpiece, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), projected on the humongous screen of the vintage Los Angeles Theater (1931) on Broadway in downtown L.A. in last summer’s Last Remaining Seats. [...] | |
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