And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, March 6, 2023
Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum photographed for River of No Return, 1954.
This movie, not some of the more famous ones, made me a MM fan. Drop dead gorgeous girl next door in the mountain scenery without being made to do the cutesy dolled up stuff.
At the time, she's 28, he's 37, and he's in the 16th year of a 57-year marriage, damned close to a Hollywood record (longer than George Burns' or Jack Benny's, but less than Bob Hope's), and definitely in the Top Ten.
And any woman who doesn't look good at 28 isn't trying, or else never had a chance.
Great movie, great cast. Marilyn even looks good when she's not all dolled up.
ReplyDeleteI've seen that one, it was a good movie! I didn't realize that was Marilyn Monroe.
ReplyDeleteDid you realize that Robert Mitchum's son in that movie ('54) was the same young man that played Jeff in the first few seasons of Lassie ('54-'57)?
DeleteThis movie, not some of the more famous ones, made me a MM fan. Drop dead gorgeous girl next door in the mountain scenery without being made to do the cutesy dolled up stuff.
ReplyDeleteAt the time, she's 28, he's 37, and he's in the 16th year of a 57-year marriage, damned close to a Hollywood record (longer than George Burns' or Jack Benny's, but less than Bob Hope's), and definitely in the Top Ten.
ReplyDeleteAnd any woman who doesn't look good at 28 isn't trying, or else never had a chance.