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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim Overview:

The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947) was a Comedy - Musical Film directed by George Seaton, Edmund Goulding (uncredited) and John M. Stahl (uncredited) and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and William Perlberg.

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Musical Monday: The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)

on Oct 10, 2022 From Comet Over Hollywood

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: The Shocking Miss Pilgri... Read full article

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Cynthia Pilgrim: I am a typewriter!
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The Shocking Miss Pilgrim Facts
Film debut of Marilyn Monroe.
While Ira Gershwin fashioned the lyrics for this movie in 1946, the composer George Gershwin had died in 1937. With the aid of long time friend Kay Swift (herself a composer), Ira put together a number of George's unpublished melodies to provide a score for the film. "For You, For Me, For Evermore" became popular enough to make "Your Hit Parade" for two weeks.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 27, 1947 with Betty Grable reprising her film role.
Director John M. Stahl took over briefly as director while George Seaton was ill, prior to a more serious illness.
This was the first Betty Grable vehicle not to achieve major-hit status following her assent to stardom in Down Argentine Way. Twentieth Century-Fox executives blamed the mild box office on the rather genteel appearance of Miss Grable, sporting darker-blonde hair and failing to display her renowned legs.
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