When M-G-M Producer Pandro Berman decided to film Feodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, he thought wistfully of blonde Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, who has often confessed a yen to play the role of Grushenka. "Frankly, I don't expect her to be in it," he said. "She would probably want too much money, and besides, I hear she is going to have a baby.'' To all questions of diapers and Dostoevsky, Marilyn murmured unsweetened nothings.
¶From Producer Frank Ross, who popularized eye-stretching CinemaScope with The Robe, came a surprisingly frank plug for oldfashioned, small-screen,...
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