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Memorable Quotations:

• "Haven't you bothered me enough, you big banana-head?" --as Angela Phinlay in THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950).
• "Sometimes Mr. Esmond finds it very difficult to say no to me." --as Lorelei Lee in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953).
• "I just love finding new places to wear diamonds." --as Lorelei Lee in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953).
• "If you've nothing more to say, pray, scat!" --as Lorelei Lee in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953).
• "Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty?  You might not marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?" --as Lorelei Lee in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953).
• "I can be smart when it's important, but most men don't like it.  Except Gus.  He's always been interested in my brain." --as Lorelei Lee in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953).
• "I don't want you to think I'm a drinker.  I can stop if I want to, only I don't want to." --as Sugar Kowalczyk in SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959).

Music Clips:

• "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (clip) from GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953) (a .WAV file).
• "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" (clip) from GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953) (a .MP3 file).
• "Two Little Girls from Little Rock" (clip) sung with Jane Russell in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953) (a .MP3 file).
• "When Love Goes Wrong" (clip) sung with Jane Russell in GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (1953) (a .MP3 file).
• "River of No Return" (clip) sung with chorus in RIVER OF NO RETURN (1954) (a .MP3 file).
• "Heat Wave" (clip) from THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS (1954) (a .MP3 file courtesy Varese Sarabande).
• "Lazy" (clip) sung with Mitzi Gaynor and Donald O'Connor in THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS (1954) (a .MP3 file courtesy Varese Sarabande).
• "After You Get What You Want" (clip) from THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS (1954)  (a .AU file).
• "Runnin' Wild" (clip) from SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) (a .MP3 file).
• "I Wanna Be Loved By You" (clip) from SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) (a .MP3 file).

Video Clips:

• "Sleep Over" with Tom Ewell in THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955) (a .AVI file courtesy 20th Century-Fox).
• "The subway vent" with Tom Ewell in THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH (1955) (courtesy 20th Century-Fox).
• "Give me a reason." with Eli Wallach in THE MISFITS (1961) (a .MOV file courtesy MGM).

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Further Reading:

• Femme Noir: The Bad Girls of Film by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998).
• Lovers: great romances of our time through the eyes of legendary writers by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1999).
• The Fox Girls by James Robert Parrish (Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1971).
• Too young to die by Patricia Fox-Sheinwold (Baltimore: Ottenheimer Publishers, 1979).

More Marilyn Links:

• The Eternally Marilyn Fan Club by Steff
• Screen Sirens: Marilyn Monroe by Doug Stickney
• Clickable Bombshells: Marilyn Monroe by Dawn Marie
• Marilyn Monroe: The Costumes
• Denny's Marilyn Monroe Page by Denny Jackson
• Larry King Live: Remembering Marilyn Monroe
• Larry King Live: The Death of Marilyn Monroe
• CMGWW: The Estate of Marilyn Monroe
• Meredy's Marilyn Monroe Trivia Mania
• Intimate Portraits: Marilyn Monroe
• FBI Freedom of Information: Marilyn Monroe
• Brad's Tribute to Marilyn Monroe by Brad Lang
• Greatest Films: THE MISFITS
• PBS: Making THE MISFITS
• Greatest Films: SOME LIKE IT HOT
• BFI: SOME LIKE IT HOT
• Salon Magazine: SOME LIKE IT HOT

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