This Year's Blonde Explained

Director:	John Erman
Teleplay:	James Lee
Starring:	Constance Forslund Lloyd Bridges Norman Fell Vic Tayback
Runtime:	100 minutes
Language:	English
Country:	United States

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 was the first of two TV movies about Monroe in 1980; the second was , 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

Notes and References

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