Speakers at this year’s service, organised by Marilyn Remembered Fan Club:
- John Gilmore, author of Inside Marilyn Monroe
- Noreen Siegel, wife of Dr Lee Siegel, Marilyn’s longtime physician at Twentieth Century Fox
- Marion Collier, ‘Olga’ from Sweet Sue’s Band in Some Like It Hot
- Audrey Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald’s promoter (Marilyn arranged for Ella to perform at LA’s Mocambo Club in 1954)
- Stanley Rubin, producer of River of No Return
- Lois Banner, Professor of History and Gender Studies at USC, currently working on two books about Marilyn
- Diana Levitt, whose father, F. Hugh Herbert, directed Marilyn’s first movie, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! in 1947. Diana also took acting classes with Marilyn
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