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various mazz

various colour pin up shots, often in delightfully garish colour

various from some of her movies

arguably her breakthrough movie, niagra launched mazza into megastardom. ironically she wouldn't really play this kind of dramatic role again - the femme fatale might have been a niche or a nice varient from the musical/comedy she pretty much did over and over from now on.

tellingly the movie loses something once her character, um, disappears, making the last act a bit of a drag. she's the classic temptress, devilish sex pot, showing real range and a sweet tookus.

in her fledgling years, newly blonded she posed and posed and posed. here is some scrummy evidence.

in the mid-fifties, when she was in dispute with Fox over her contract, mm took refuge in NY. here she studied at the actor's studio and wandered the streets, relatively left alone. she kept a flat there over the years and a young fan called jimmie haspiel regularly took snaps of and with her. this is a gallery capturing that time. all the pix here are - i believe - taken in ny. but i may be wrong.

mm at various parties, charity do's, premieres and any occasion where she dressed up nice and was snapped in a candid fashion.

a plethora of pix of candidness

candid snaps of mazza on various film and photoshoot sets.

marilyn occasionally appeared at sporting events for publicity or in the case of the reno shots here, as recreation away from the tough, hot Misfits set. here she gambles with director john huston. the pic of mm with the baseball bat is allegedly the one that inspired joe dimaggio to ask 'who's the blonde?' as a result a blind date was set up. the baseball game featuring mickey rooney is an allstar charity event.

mazz appeared on gazzillions of magazine covers over the years and of course her death made newspaper headlines around the world. here is a collection of some of these.