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This Year's Blonde is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Erman released in USA on 17 may 1980 with Constance Forslund
This Year's Blonde (1980)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 17 may 1980
Length 1h40
Directed by John Erman
OriginUSA
Themes Films about television
Rating65%
This Year's Blonde is a 1980 low-budgeted American television drama film, based on the Garson Kanin novel Moviola about 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. The movie starred Constance Forslund as Monroe Lloyd Bridges as Johnny Hyde and Norman Fell and 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. Both movies have been overshadowed by more big-budgeted theatrical films about the star.
Actors
Constance Forslund
(Marilyn Monroe)
Lloyd Bridges
(Johnny Hyde)
Norman Fell
(Pat Toledo)
Vic Tayback
(Harry Cohn)
Michael Lerner
(Jack Warner)
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