Sara Albert, America's Next Top Model
Among the characters — and they are characters — that America's Next Top Model has introduced to us this season are all of our old, familiar favorites: the bumpkin (Kathy), the dimwit (Gina), the sexpot (Kari), the girl next door (Mollie Sue) and the psycho (no comment). But the one we'd most likely invite to our backyard barbecue would have to be last week's eliminee — call her "the sweetheart" — Sara Albert. After being asked
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Waiting for stardom: Marilyn Monroe in Dangerous Years
Question: What's the title of the first movie Marilyn Monroe appeared in, and when was it released?Answer: This is the sort of question that looks so simple it's not worth answering, but like so many other things in life, it's more complicated than it looks. The very first film Marilyn Monroe shot was The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947), a Betty Grable musical about the women's suffrage movement; Monroe's bit part was cut out. Monroe's role in Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!, a comedy about mule training, was also a bit; it was uncredited and of her three scenes, two were deleted before the film's release. She can be seen paddling a canoe with the also-uncredited
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