young model to aspiring starlet. but if she s going to break out, she will need to impress studio head darrell zanic. ? ? many ways darrell zanic is almost cliche of an old school movie mogul. he s short. he s aggressive. and he s always chomping on a cigar. this is somebody who has a reputation as being exacting, and sometimes brutal. it s difficult to overstate how patriarchal the hollywood studio system was this the thifts, 40s, and 50s. it was absolutely male dominated. at the top of every one of the big studios is a very powerful, controlling man, the people that we call moguls. louie b. mayer, jack warner,
you can see the beginnings of a bombshell but nothing like the bubbliness you d see later on. who s paying? i told you i have money. know you re blowing it on two cokes? double. my, my. it s up to darrell to decide whether to keep marilyn under contract. there is a lot of beautiful girls in the world, and marilyn is still just a bit player. he s not that interested in her. he thought she was another pretty face and a dime a dozen and had literally hundreds just as pretty. darrell zanic, a great spotter of stars, said no. and he dropped her. when marilyn was dropped by fox, she was devastated but she was tenacious and vowed that she would work even harder.
to darrell, marilyn is nothing special. darrell basically he didn t like marilyn. he called her straw head. he never got her message. and if a studio head doesn t like you, you got problems, honey. to begin with, he sees marilyn as i believe he said that her talent was all below her navel and above her waist. basically she was tits and ass and that was it. if marilyn wants to keep her contract, she has to fight for it. she kind of had a sort of whatever means necessary i will find my way to this. that meant doing the right photo shoots or taking acting classes. she wasn t just sitting idly by waiting for the studio to
to emerge. she commands the screen when she s on it. she certainly has poise. you can see the beginnings of a bombshell, but nothing like the bubbliness that you would see later on. two double cokes. who is paying? i told you i got money. and now you are blowing it on two coax. double. my, my. it is now up to darrell zanic to decide whether to keep marilyn on contract. there are a lot of beautiful girls in the world and marilyn is still just a bit player. he s not that fond of her. he thought she was just another pretty face, and they are a dime a dozen and he had literally hundreds of other girls he thought were just as pretty. darrell zanic, a great spotter of stars, said no. and he dropped her. when marilyn was dropped by fox, she was devastated. but she was tenacious and vowed that she would work even harder.
darrell zanic. they are considered despotic mon monsters, and tough, tough businessmen, because they knew the things the public wanted were stars and stories. and they ran it like a factory. and they rolled those things out. four or five, six hundred of them a year. there were only a few large studios, and those studios made the movies, period. it was sort of like the mafia, in that they controlled everything. studio system operated a pool of aspiring talent, what they called stock contract players. being a contract player didn t mean that you were going to be a star. you were shuffled from one movie to the next. and often, you were an glorified extra, essentially. hollywood has always been a difficult place for women.