Cinema: Newsreel, Mar. 14, 1955

¶ Blonde, well-curved Sheree North, who replaced blonde, well-curved Marilyn Monroe in 20th Century-Fox's How To Be Very, Very Popular, announced that she would play the role her way, not Marilyn's. Producer-Director-Writer Nunnally Johnson backed her up: "Sheree will not act like Marilyn. She has been instructed to play the entire part with her mouth shut."

¶ Ingrid Bergman returned to her native Sweden to play Joan of Arc at the Stake at the Stockholm Opera. Then she announced that as soon as the engagement ended she would leave Sweden forever. Reason: aggressively...

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