Loud Thinking June 14, 2014 at 03:15PM
When they met…!
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV & MARILYN MONROE
In September 1959, during Khrushchev’s American tour, he visited 20th Century Fox Studios. At a lunch banquet with hundreds of stars (including Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, and Gary Cooper), he was introduced to Marilyn Monroe. Wearing a low-cut, tight black dress, she delivered a line that Natalie Wood, a fluent Russian speaker, had taught her: “We the workers of 20th Century Fox rejoice that you have come to visit our studio and country.”
Khrushchev was mesmerized. “He looked at me the way a man looks on a woman,” Monroe said.
“You’re a very lovely young lady,” he said, squeezing her hand.
“This is about the biggest day in the history of the movie business,” Monroe told the cameras. But later, she reportedly told her maid, “He was fat and ugly and had warts on his face and he growled. He squeezed my hand so long and so hard that I thought he would break it. I guess it was better than having to kiss him.”
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