{"id":25654,"date":"2014-06-25T06:20:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T10:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25654"},"modified":"2016-10-23T10:19:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T14:19:11","slug":"marilyn-monroes-first-television-appearance-september-13-1953in-the-commen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=25654","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s First Television Appearance&#8230;September 13, 1953"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Marilyn-Monroes-First-Television-Appearance...September-13-1953-In-the-Commen.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMarilyn Monroe&#8217;s First Television Appearance&#8230;September 13, 1953<\/p>\n<p>In the Comment section below, you&#8217;ll see the gift Jack Benny gave Marilyn for appearing on his show. She was reluctant and didn&#8217;t really want to do it because on live television, to many things could go wrong, but the &#8220;gift&#8221; helped, as did the studio executives who saw this as a great promo for her new movie &#8220;Gentlemen Prefer Blonds&#8221; which went into general release in August of &#8217;53.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first show of Benny&#8217;s fourth season and having lost thirty percent of his audience in the third season, he was anxious to step up the guest star power. It worked and the ratings zoomed.<\/p>\n<p>As an interesting side note on this clip, which is part of a sketch called &#8216;The Trip To Honolulu&#8217;, the pretty (but chubby) blond we see at the start is Barbara Pepper. Barbara was a good friend of Lucille Ball&#8217;s and was the person Lucy wanted to play the part of Ethel Mertz. Enjoy and share!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_vhQqJXJz-o\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_vhQqJXJz-o<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Part 2 The Jack Benny Show with Marilyn Monroe [1953]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_vhQqJXJz-o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On September 13, 1953 The Jack Benny Show episode with Marilyn Monroe aired on CBS. I really enjoy this episode! Marilyn is such a sweetheart and did a great&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/693973897306829\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Monroe&#8217;s First Television Appearance&#8230;September 13, 1953 In the Comment section below, you&#8217;ll see the gift Jack Benny gave Marilyn for appearing on his show. She was reluctant and didn&#8217;t really want to do it because on live television, to many things could go wrong, but the &#8220;gift&#8221; helped, as did the studio executives who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[783,1060,725,806],"class_list":["post-25654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cbs","tag-jack-benny-show","tag-star","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}