Marilyn’s American fans are in for a treat today, as the free-to-air Movies TV Network is showing four Monroe classics in an all-day ‘Icon-a-Thon‘, starting with O. Henry’s Full House (1952) at 12:15 pm. Marilyn makes a brief appearance in this anthology film’s first segment, ‘The Cop and the Anthem,’ as a streetwalker accosted by Soapy (Charles Laughton), a courtly tramp desperate to spend the wintry night in a warm jail cell.
This might be the closest Marilyn came to making a Christmas movie – and if her classy cameo whets your appetite, it’s followed by Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at 2:50 pm; How to Marry a Millionaire at 4:50 pm; There’s No Business Like Show Business at 7:00 pm; and Let’s Make Love at 9:35 pm.
The Marilyn Report 