This Year's Blonde

This Year's Blonde is a 1980 American television film directed by John Erman and starring Constance Forslund as Marilyn Monroe, Lloyd Bridges as Johnny Hyde, and Norman Fell. Based on the Garson Kanin novel Moviola about Monroe, the film was presented as part of a three-night TV special event on NBC titled Moviola: A Hollywood Saga. This Year's Blonde was the first of two TV movies about Monroe in 1980; the second was Marilyn: The Untold Story, starring Catherine Hicks. Cast Constance Forslund as Marilyn Monroe Lloyd Bridges as Johnny Hyde Norman Fell as Pat Toledo Vic Tayback as Harry Cohn Michael Lerner as Jack L. Warner John Marley as Joe Schenck Richard Seer as Norman Lee Wallace as Samuel Goldwyn William Frankfather as John Huston Philip Sterling as Dr. Freed Sondra Blake as Mrs. Baker Barney Martin as Eddie Mannix Michael Strong as Sol Silverman Peter Maloney as Darryl Zanuck Stephen Keep Mills as Dore Schary Peggy Ann Garner as the Stepmother