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I believe I've always heard that The Girl in Pink Tights was a remake of Grable's Coney Island, but that doesn't mean that information is 100% correct. It could've very well been a remake of Sweet Rosie O'Grady. I also get confused on whether the film version, which was apparently tabled...

Yes, Barbara Nichols had her first role as a dance hall extra in Marilyn's own River of No Return in 1954. I think Barbara was least like Marilyn in terms of her image. She was brash and had something of a squeaky voice that didn't fit the "sexy" image that most Monroe "clones" tried to...

How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955) is uploaded in its entirety online. Sheree's rendition of "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" is considered a highlight of a rather bland musical comedy.

I'm quite indifferent to Mamie. There was a time, many moons ago, when I tried to dig into her movies some, but I was disappointed. You know, some people can still have a "presence" in when they're appearing in shlocky B-movies. Mamie's filmography is cluttered with B-movies, and that's fine...

One of my favorite Sheree North performances is her turn as Virgina Hollingsworth Wylde, sister of Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), on the popular sitcom The Golden Girls. Sheree originally appeared early in the first season when Virginia comes to Miami to ask Blanche if she will donate her...

Marilyn was not a trained dancer like Sheree had been. Sheree's dancing talents got her own Broadway and offered her first splash with fame. Marilyn, on the other hand, could sing, a talent Sheree publicly stated she lacked.

Quite true. Her career is often dismissed, when she actually has a good deal of good film and television performances to her name. I must disagree here. Fox literally signed North as a "threat" to Monroe when Monroe refused to do The Girl in Pink Tights. The studio was notorious for bringing...

OK. I must admit that I find this statement a little hard to swallow. It was Marilyn that got me into classic movies, so I'm sure she will always have her own spot in my heart and mind. Her simultaneously sexy and vulnerable persona has never been so equally meshed together as with her. She was...

Marilyn Monroe was the biggest movie star in the world in 1950s, but as her star ascended, she became increasingly unmanageable and unreliable on movie sets. In hopes to "getting her in line", her home studio, 20th Century-Fox, recruited Broadway actress Sheree North and signed her to a contract...