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VOTE MARILYN FILMS TO THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY

The National Film Registry is part of the Library of Congress and ensures the conservation and survival of culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films. This is increasingly important in order to preserve film negatives and physical copies of films for future generations.
Every year the board decides on 25 films to be added to the registry. As of 2021, Some Like It Hot is the only Marilyn movie on the registry. While you can nominate up to 50 films every year, I would recommend focusing on two Marilyn films already being suggested in the registry’s official “Not Yet Added” list:
  • Seven Year Itch, The / Year column : 1955
  • Misfits, The / Year column : 1961
(please follow this title format when submitting)
Your vote can make a real difference. Films that receive the most support each year are given special consideration by members of the National Film Preservation Board.
All you need is an email address. You do not need to complete the two questions but it never hurts to show some passion:
https://www.research.net/r/national-fim-registry-nomination-form?fbclid=IwAR1iCf6cwTgGS1Xdw1XOSQI_OEfJigNo8d_-X29vbgfPnX4nTUayuHolQS4
The deadline is September 15th so get voting and spread the word!

Thanks to “Silver Technicolour” over at or Facebook group for wording, graphic and bringing this to our attention!

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MEMORIES OF MARILYN: ANGELA ALLEN

Angela Allen, script supervisor on “The Misfits”:

“What was so amazing about her was the thing that she projected on the screen. She seemed so ordinary when doing a scene, and then you’d go to the rushes and see her up there, so different, like no-one else.. it was nearly incredible. The legend…. suddenly made sense.”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELI WALLACH

Wallach and Monroe on the set of “The Misfits” 1961

Today we are remembering and wishing Hollywood legend Eli Wallach many happy returns on what would have been his 101st Birthday.

Eli Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s. Trained in stage acting, he had more than 90 film credits to his name, including “The Magnificent Seven” (1960) “How The West Was Won” (1962) and the enduring cinematic masterpiece that is “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.” (1966.)

Eli Wallach and Clint Eastwood on the set of “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.”

Marilyn fans will know him best through his role as Guido in the 1961 drama “The Misfits” which was written by Monroe’s then husband, Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston and co starred Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift.


“Thanks to Marilyn, I was one of the first to be cast, and then I watched my name drop lower and lower in the credits as Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift and Thelma Ritter one by one came aboard. They’re all gone now, James Barton too. Marilyn and I had become very close friends several years before while she was working at the Actor’s Studio. While I was doing “Teahouse,” she’d come backstage to watch me from the wings night after night. When she was preparing “The Misfits,” she told Arthur Miller she wanted me to be in it. It was sad to watch her marriage breaking up while we were filming this valentine he had written to her. Gable was charming, as always, and Monty – well, he and Marilyn had this same self-destructive temperament. They were at a loss; they couldn’t cope. It’s easy to poke fun at those people – big stars – but it’s very sad.”

Eli Wallach speaking in 1983

Wallach died on June 24, 2014 of natural causes at the age of 98. He was survived by his wife of 66 years, three children, three grandchildren and a great-grandchild. His body was cremated.