This Year's Blonde

This Year's Blonde is a 1980 American television 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^[1] about Monroe, the film was presented as part of a three-night TV special event on NBC titled Moviola: A Hollywood Saga.^[1]

This Year's Blonde
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Based on	Moviola by Garson Kanin
Teleplay by	James Lee
Directed by	John Erman
Starring	Constance Forslund Lloyd Bridges Norman Fell Vic Tayback
Music by	Elmer Bernstein
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Running time	100 minutes
Original release
Release	May 18, 1980 (1980-05-18)

This Year's Blonde was the first of two TV movies about Monroe in 1980; the second was 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

1. Jeanette M. Berard; Klaudia Englund (2009). Television Series and Specials Scripts, 1946-1992: A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection (Thousand Oaks Library). McFarland & Company. p. 390. ISBN 9780786454372. Retrieved December 29, 2011.

External links

• This Year's Blonde at IMDb