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In 1950, what's now called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had a split-off group called the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood. (The dispute was over some of the original organization's members not being professional journalists.) The Fpah is now mostly forgotten, save for one memorable act: It gave Marilyn Monroe her first major award in 1952 at Santa Monica's Club Casa del Mar. (That seaside brick building is now the Hotel Casa del Mar.)
The Henrietta — named after Fpah president Henry Gris — was shaped like a tall, nude woman holding a flower. The group had the prescience...
In 1950, what's now called the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had a split-off group called the Foreign Press Association of Hollywood. (The dispute was over some of the original organization's members not being professional journalists.) The Fpah is now mostly forgotten, save for one memorable act: It gave Marilyn Monroe her first major award in 1952 at Santa Monica's Club Casa del Mar. (That seaside brick building is now the Hotel Casa del Mar.)
The Henrietta — named after Fpah president Henry Gris — was shaped like a tall, nude woman holding a flower. The group had the prescience...
- 1/9/2018
- by Bill Higgins
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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