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This Year's Blonde
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Wikipedia article
'This Year's Blonde' is a 1980 American made-for-television drama film directed by John Erman and starring Constance Forslund as Marilyn Monroe, Lloyd Bridges as Johnny Hyde, and Norman Fell. Based on the Garson Kanin novel 'Moviola' about Monroe, the film was presented as part of a 3-night TV special event on NBC called 'Moviola: A Hollywood Saga'.
'This Year's Blonde' was the first of two TV movies about Monroe in 1980, the second being 'Marilyn: The Untold Story', starring Catherine Hicks.
Cast
*Constance Forslund as Marilyn Monroe
*Lloyd Bridges as Johnny Hyde
*Norman Fell as Pat Toledo
*Vic Tayback as Harry Cohn
*Michael Lerner as Jack L. Warner
*John Marley as Joe Schenck
*Richard Seer as Norman
*Lee Wallace as Samuel Goldwyn
*William Frankfather as John Huston
*Philip Sterling as Dr. Freed
*Sondra Blake as Mrs. Baker
*Barney Martin as Eddie Mannix
*Michael Strong as Sol Silverman
*Peter Maloney as Darryl Zanuck
*Stephen Keep Mills as Dore Schary
*Peggy Ann Garner as the Stepmother
See also
* 'Moviola', 1979 novel by Garson Kanin, source material for this film
* 'The Scarlett O'Hara War' (1980), the third installment of TV miniseries 'Moviola: A Hollywood Saga'
References
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