The bitter battle was over. Marilyn Monroe, a 5 ft. 5½ in. blonde weighing in at 118 alluringly distributed pounds, had brought to its knees mighty 20th Century-Fox, one of Hollywood's biggest corporations.
It all came to a head a year ago. Fox wanted to type Marilyn once again as an emptyheaded, wriggle-hipped blonde in How to Be Very, Very Popular. Complaining that she was being miscast, and could fill a dramatic role as well as a satin sheath, Marilyn walked out. Fox promptly took her off the payroll.
Off to Manhattan flounced Marilyn. She incorporated herself while skeptics snickered. She studied "to...
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