In Like Cyn – Season 1 Episode 13 – Marilyn Monroe!

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“Hey everybody!  I’ve got a great new episode for you this week, filled with lots of Hollywood History as me and my co-host Chris Varaste go in search of Marilyn Monroe!” – Cynthia Troyer

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In Like Cyn – Season 1 Episode 13

Published to YouTube March 12, 2015

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Marilyn Monroe!

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IN LIKE CYN – SEASON 1 – EPISODE 13

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In Like Cyn – Season 1 Episode 13

Marilyn Monroe

Published on YouTube March 12, 2015

[KEY: Cyn: Cynthia Troyer; CV: Chris Varaste]

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Cyn:                        Hello hello and welcome to another episode of In Like Cyn.

MUSIC BREAK

Cyn:                        Today I’m here with my co-star.

CV:                        Hey everybody.

Cyn:                        Chris Varaste. You might remember him from episode Catopia [Episode 3 of In Like Cyn]

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CV:                        Catopia!

Cyn:                        Today we’re on Hollywood Boulevard. We are searching for Marilyn Monroe.

Cyn VO:            Hollywood was established in 1853, with a single adobe hut on land outside Los Angeles, California. By 1870, Hollywood became a thriving agricultural community. By 1900, Hollywood had a population of 500. A single street car on Prospect Ave… later renamed Hollywood Boulevard… would take you to Los Angeles through seven miles of orange groves. A trip that took passengers two hours! Today’s Metro takes about fifteen minutes. The same gorgeous sunlight that grew crops so successfully drew filmmakers from New York. In 1910, D.W. Griffith came to the West Coast with his acting troupe consisting of Blanche Sweet, Lillian Gish, Mary Pickford, Lionel Barrymore and others. After exploring Los Angeles, they took that trolley car ride to the village of Hollywood. And they shot the first film in California called “In Old California!” I’ve lived in Hollywood for 20 years. Hollywood is home to me. One of the biggest stars to grace this town, Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles. Her mother, Gladys was a film-cutter at RKO Studios, who, widowed and mentally ill, abandoned her to a sequence of foster homes.

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ANNOTATION:            This show is all shot on my iPhone.

Cyn VO:            1946 was a pinnacle year for the rising star. She began to model swimsuits after photographer Bruno Bernard saw her on Sunset Boulevard. He gave her his card and said, “Miss this is strictly professional. I’d like to take some photo tests of you.” Later in the year she died her hair blonde and changed her name to Marilyn Monroe, a moniker derived from her mother’s family name Monroe and Marilyn Miller a musical performer from the 1920’s. Marilyn was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960, the same year she won a Golden Globe for her performance in Some Like It Hot. Just two years before her death.

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CV:                        Hi everybody. I’m the co-host for In Like Cyn today. Today’s a very special day because we are celebrating – what are we celebrating, Cynthia Troyer – we’re celebrating Marilyn Monroe. Her legend lives on. Marilyn means a lot of things to a lot of different people, but mostly she’s a modern day Venus and we’re here on Hollywood Boulevard celebrating Marilyn on In Like Cyn!

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SCREEN TITLE: 6901 Hollywood Boulevard

Cyn VO:            Howard Hughes, head of RKO Studios, saw a cover shot on Laff Magazine and offered Marilyn a screen test. She never looked back as she steadily rose to become a sex symbol superstar, who would be voted “Sexiest Woman of the Century” by People Magazine. It wasn’t until 1956 that she legally changed her name from Norma Jean to Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was well read. The breadth of subjects found in the more than 400 books of Marilyn’s library are a testament to her intelligence and wide range of interests. Ever the inquiring mind she owned works of literature, art, drama, biography, poetry, politics, history, theology, philosophy and psychology many of them first editions.

CV:                        Tell us how you feel Cynthia.

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Cyn:                        I’m just excited to be here today. Like searching for Marilyn Monroe is something – she’s an idol of mine. It’s actually a recent – I recently discovered her and I’m just such a big fan now. It’s so weird to you know decades later discover her and just really what a wonderful actress she really was.

CV:                        I love Marilyn Monroe. I can relate to her. I find that she is very much alive right here in Hollywood I totally feel her presence. There’s a reason they call her the Goddess of Love, because she is – she’s like a cat, or a canary or a puppy, or a snowflake. She’s just full of life and full of love. We appreciate her contribution. [KISS].

Cyn:                        [SINGING] Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

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AT CHINESE THEATER

TITLE: 6925 Hollywood Blvd.

CV:                        Alright, okay, I’m still with Cynthia and we’re still filming and I’m still the co-host. We’re at Grauman’s Chinese and we’re looking for Marilyn Monroe’s footprints.

Cyn VO:            In 1953, in sync with the release of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Marilyn and Jane Russell, with cameras flashing, got their handprints, footprints, and signatures captured in cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater forever. Marilyn is quoted on that day, “I used to go to Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and try to fit my foot in a celebrity impression, it really meant to me that any thing is possible… almost.”

 

Here is some footage and pix collage of Marilyn and Jane Russell that day

And here is the original Movietone News of the event!

Cyn:                        We’re here outside of Mann’s Chinese Theater right here on Hollywood Boulveard.

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Cyn VO:            Mann’s Chinese Theater opened on May 18, 1927 with the premiere of Cecil B DeMille’s film The King of Kings. Many premiers have happened here, including Star Wars in 1977. Three Academy Awards ceremonies have been held here.

CV:                        I feel it. I feel it. I found the footprints. And she’s here with Jane Russell. We are now going to reenact Marilyn Monroe’s handprints. Okay, well my hands are twice as big. But they still fit pretty well.

It’s finally In Search of Marilyn Day!!

A video posted by Cynthia Troyer (@cynthiatroyer) on

Cyn:                        It’s actually a perfect fit. Marilyn Monroe and I have the same size hand. But the feet – her feet were a lot smaller [than mine].

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Marilyn Monroe and I have the same size hand!

Cyn VO:            According to the theatre’s records, silent film star Norma Talmadge is credited as having inspired the tradition when she accidentally stepped into the wet concrete. Ever the showman, Grauman himself is quoted, “…pure accident. I walked right into it. While we were building the theatre, I accidentally happened to step in some soft concrete. And there it was. So, I went to Mary Pickford immediately. Mary put her foot into it.” Following the Seven Year Itch in December 1954, Marilyn formed Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc., defying Hollywood convention by establishing her own company, a practice common among stars of today to control their own projects.

CV:                        I just – I’m sorry. It’s just hard for me to step away right now and say goodbye – say goodbye to Marilyn.

Cyn:                        Marilyn Monroe is all over Hollywood. Like she’s everywhere.

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Cyn VO:            We took a stroll across the street to the Roosevelt Hotel to check out another legend about Marilyn Monroe. This historic hotel designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style is named after President Theodore Roosevelt. Financed by a group that included Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Louis B Mayer, it opened its doors in 1927.

TITLE: 7000 Hollywood Blvd

Cyn VO:            It was the site for the very first Academy Awards in 1929. Marilyn Monroe was a resident at the Hollywood Roosevelt for two years when her modeling career took off. Her first magazine shoot was here by the pool.

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CV:                        Such a beautiful hotel, don’t you think so?

Cyn:                        Oh my God, it’s wonderful.

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CV:                        It’s very – um – 1930’s glamorous.

Cyn VO:            The hotel is professionally maintained by Thompson Hotels and the poolside cabanas are vintage 1950’s, and you can rent one starting at $480 a night. Of course the Marilyn Monroe suite will cost you $1620 a night.

Cyn:                        Oh my god this is so old. It’s like a U.S. Mailbox, you drop the mail and it comes in. Marilyn Monroe used this to send mail out. Isn’t that amazing.

CV:                        There’s a legend – a Hollywood legend that the ghost of Marilyn Monroe lingers here. From the research that we’ve done its near the elevators in a mirror. Let’s go take a look.

CEILING

CV:                        Look at all that intricate work. And look at the chandelier. [SINGING] The Phantom of the Opera is here…! Mmmmm-ahhh.

Cyn:                        Here’s the elevators. Where is it? The mirror that we are searching for right now was in her suite and there have been several people who have like seen the ghost of Marilyn Monroe coming out of the mirror, or inside the mirror.

CV:                        I found the mirror!

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Cyn:                        That’s not the mirror right there.

CV:                        That’s the mirror.

Cyn:                        That’s it!

CV:                        Marilyn! Marilyn! Marilyn. I think I see her. I think I see her oh no that’s Cynthia Troyer. [LAUGHS].

Cyn:                        Marilyn, show us. Show us. Come.

CV:                        Oooo, I saw a light.

Cyn:                        Let’s go up there.

UPSTAIRS

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CV:                        You know, you’re lucky you’re getting me and Cynthia because um, we’re free. We found a beautiful, beautiful picture of Marilyn. She looks a little sad, a little pensive. I wanna share it with you, c’mon. We’re on the second floor of the Roosevelt Hotel. We have to be careful – here.

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Cyn:                        Bye Marilyn.

Cyn VO:            Join me every Thursday for a new In Like Cyn.

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