{"id":1330,"date":"2005-11-19T11:33:20","date_gmt":"2005-11-19T19:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/11\/willys_wit\/"},"modified":"2005-11-19T11:33:20","modified_gmt":"2005-11-19T19:33:20","slug":"willys_wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/11\/willys_wit.html","title":{"rendered":"WILLY&#8217;S WIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a word:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/video.barnesandnoble.com\/search\/results.asp?quickSearchType=TTL&#038;FRM=0&#038;quickSearchText=the+prince+and+the++showgirl&#038;userid=YG2P7MFC3q&#038;cds2Pid=9481\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"THE PRINCE AND  THE SHOWGIRL\" src=\"http:\/\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/images\/4550000\/4554090.jpg\" width=90 align=right border=0 \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The filming [of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050861\/\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;The Prince and the Showgirl,&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> starring Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe] was a disaster almost from the beginning. Olivier should have expected trouble. He had asked William Wyler what she was like to work with, and he had replied, &#8220;Hitler.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=YG2P7MFC3q&#038;isbn=0805075364&#038;itm=1\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"OLIVIER, by Terry Coleman\" src=\"http:\/\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/images\/10310000\/10312920.gif\" width=90 align=left border=0 \/><\/a><br \/>\n&#8212; From page 268 of Terry Coleman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/booksearch\/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=YG2P7MFC3q&#038;isbn=0805075364&#038;itm=1\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Olivier,&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> a new biography based almost exclusively on primary sources. In fact, Wyler never worked with Monroe. Didn&#8217;t matter. He knew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a word: &#8220;The Prince and the Showgirl,&#8221; starring Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe] was a disaster almost from the beginning. Olivier should have expected trouble. He had asked William Wyler what she was like to work with, and he had replied, &#8220;Hitler.&#8221; &#8220;Olivier,&#8221; a new biography based almost exclusively on primary sources. In fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-ls","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}