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There was talk Jane at first refused to do the picture because she thought her role was second rate; when the picture started the girls spent little time together between scenes; and there was the delicate matter of who would wear the most revealing clothes, Marilyn or Jane?
By Jon Bruce
I he hottest news in Hollywood of late is the report of a blistering, blazing feud between Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell.
This is the inside story of that feud.
Of course, it's not surprising that this kind of news should have made the gossip columns. After all, look at your contestants. Both are liberally endowed in the glamour department, both have had a career built on the same kind of sexy publicity, both are enough alike in professional ways to have made news by themselves, let alone together. When they were cast in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," then, what could have been more natural than that they were supposed to immediately indulge in a backbiting campaign against each other?
The news of the supposed feud actually began as a gag. When Bob Welch, producer at Paramount where Jane had made a couple of films, heard who she was to star with he said, "Let's see who makes the first crack, and then let the fur fly." Naturally, this amused Jane and when she met Marilyn she told her what Bob had said.
In the meantime, Marilyn had heard that Jane was bringing her own cameraman, make-up man and hair dresser from RKO. Marilyn had been told by a friend, "Jane's bringing her own photographer — and he'll butcher you." This was also done as a gag. Then came the report that Marilyn was insisting on her own photographer — a completely false rumor.
True, Jane had her (continued on pace 26)
^ How do you interpret the look on Jane's face? This inside story will tell you how.
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