The Front Page is a Broadway play about journalism, adapted for film, radio and television.
Chicago is the setting for The Front Page; this city's former reporters Ben Hecht and Charles McArthur serve as writers of this comedy play.
Masterminding the first 3 film versions of The Front Page comedy play are filmmakers being involved with Marilyn Monroe: Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks and Billy Wilder.
Howard Hughes, who produced and directed Marilyn Monroe's idol Jean Harlow in the 1930 pre-Code independent war film Hell's Angels, also produced the first film version of the The Front Page.
Ben Lyon, who was with Jean Harlow in Hell's Angels, turned Norma Jeane into Marilyn Monroe.
While Marilyn Monroe signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox, Ben Lyon felt that the name "Norma Jeane" was not a glamorous one, so he gave her a new, more glamorous name.
Having once worked with Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon told Marilyn Monroe, on her first meeting with him, that she was "Jean Harlow all over again!," resembling the 1930's sex symbol.
Double M for Marilyn Monroe means she has good luck; in fact, she is lucky.
Later, Marilyn Monroe wrote an inscription on a signed photograph she gifted to Ben Lyon.
Marilyn Monroe's handwritten dedication to Ben Lyon says: "You found me, named me and believed in me when no one else did," in reference to him signing her to a Fox contract and making a new name.
Howard Hawks, who famously directed Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film iteration of the 1949 musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, also directed the second film version of the The Front Page.
Distinctly, the name for the second film version of the The Front Page is His Girl Friday.
Billy Wilder, who famously directed Marilyn Monroe in 2 of her iconic films: The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot, also directed the third film version of the The Front Page.
Not confined to The Front Page, Chicago houses the Chicago School of Television, which counters the television scene of the East Coast (specifically New York) with its low-budget approach.
Dave Garroway, a noted individual being involved in the Chicago School of Television, innovated the Chicago Style for his eponymous program Garroway at Large, plus Today (NBC).
Inside the RCA Exhibition Hall floor, portions of which were converted into the first studio location for Today (NBC), was a room evoking the large newspaper office of the East Coast.
Blending print journalism's industrial past (via the 50 Rock hub of the Associated Press) with electronic media's transparent future (via the RCA Exhibition Hall), the Today (NBC) bullpen is innovative.
Specifically, the blueprint being created by the borderless room being based inside the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway birthed modern broadcast design elements.
Noted elements of the boundless room being based in the RCA Exhibition Hall for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway include newsroom sets, street-side studios, news tickers and clock displays.
Just before Dave Garroway, television news featured anchors who delivered the day's stories in a studio resembling a claustrophobic box/theatrical and radio stage with journalists backstage in a bullpen.
However, Dave Garroway's innovations, including Garroway at Large and Today (NBC), tore down the walls, juxtaposing the main stage in the news studio with the backstage workspace bullpen.
By the mid-1950's period, the Chicago School of Television had started to fade, as television network production became a centralized duopoly between New York and Los Angeles.
Even so, the DNA of the Chicago School of Television remains across the US and around the world.
NBC's usually fierce competitor CBS pioneered the newsroom studio feature, either as a backdrop or a centrepiece.
Hugh Raisky, a designer involved with CBS, made the newsroom a regular studio feature.
Besides, Hugh Raisky was a student set designer for the first of the 1960 presidential debates.
During the first of the 1960 presidential debates, a total of 380 reporters were inside Studios 3 and 4 at WBBM-TV's headquarters in the former Chicago Arena.
In March 1973, the walls between Studios 3 and 4 at WBBM-TV's Chicago Arena hub were being torn down for a regular newsroom-as-backdrop studio trend that Hugh Raisky designed.
Robert Wussler and Van Gordon Sauter, both involved with WBBM-TV, were the geniuses behind the creation of its regular newsroom-as-set trend via Hugh Raisky in 1973.
For Hugh Raisky's regular newsroom studio set (made for WBBM-TV under Robert Wussler and Van Gordon Sauter), it shattered the rigid and isolated television news studio set trends.
Just before the innovative news desks, made in the 1960's by both WJW-TV and WCCO-TV, television newscasts featured one anchor in one desk and three separate segments (news-sports-weather).
However, in this 1960's era, both WJW-TV and WCCO-TV built wider and unified news desks to bring anchors/segments (news-sports-weather) together in one desk and one program.
Fred Harpman, a science fiction designer in Hollywood, is involved with his work on NBC's sci-fi spy television series Search and its 1972 pilot television film Probe.
Playing the main role in Search/Probe is Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lockwood.
Hugh O'Brian also appears in Marilyn Monroe's 1954 musical movie called There's No Business Like Show Business.
Search/Probe use the Probe Control Centre, a high-tech, NASA-like nerve centre.
The Probe Control Centre, which Fred Harpman had designed for Search/Probe on NBC, serves as the direct inspiration for his studio set design for this network called the NewsCentre.
Plus, Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design is based upon his nerve centre design being used in the 1966 science fiction adventure film Fantastic Voyage, for which he is assistant art director.
CMDF's nerve centre uses its high-tech and futuristic feel for Fantastic Voyage (1966).
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Fantastic Voyage (1966) stars Marilyn Monroe's Fox successor Raquel Welch.
Richard Fleischer also directed The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, which Marilyn Monroe planned but eventually declined to put in the title role.
Having its Hollywood sci-fi roots, Fred Harpman's cinematic NewsCentre studio set design served as a radical departure from the austere news set designs.
Marilyn Monroe's spirit, via her former co-star Hugh O'Brian, her Fox successor Raquel Welch and her planned director Richard Fleischer, also inspired Fred Harpman's NewsCentre design.
Using its hybrid newsroom-control room studio set design, BCTV fused together both the old and new guards of the local/regional television news industry across North America, influencing CNN.
For Ray Peters, BCTV's innovative hybrid newsroom-control room studio, which he co-conceived with Cameron Bell and Ernie Rose, paralelled the open area for Today (NBC) under Dave Garroway.
Incidentally, Today (NBC) is the television program of which BCTV's Ray Peters was an avid viewer.
Upon its June 1, 1980 launch, CNN used its BCTV-inspired hybrid newsroom-control room studio set design, which serves as the DNA for 24-hour television news.
BCTV, incidentally, juxtaposed CBS (bullpen, Robert Wussler, Daniel Schorr, Bernard Shaw and Sam Zelman) with NBC (NewsCentre, Mary Alice Williams and Jim Kitchell), all used by CNN.
Specifically, this hybrid layout used by BCTV/CNN is a bustling, print-style bullpen operating inside a massive, high-tech monitor matrix.
Modern 21st-century news sets do not leave the CBS, NBC and BCTV/CNN philosophies behind; they instead use digital technology to merge and evolve them into flexible ecosystems.
Pamela Anderson is Canada's modern answer to Marilyn Monroe, but also an iconic and world-famous import from British Columbia.
Whereas BCTV pioneered its hybrid newsroom-control room studio set that CNN popularized, Pamela Anderson became internationally famous through Playboy and Baywatch.
Dorothy Stratten is another Canadian answer to Marilyn Monroe, but a less known import from British Columbia than Pamela Anderson.
For Dorothy Stratten, her 1960 birth coincided with BCTV's launch, her 1980 death with CNN's.
The names of the made-up crossover films, all echoing the innovative hybrid BCTV newsroom-control room studio design that CNN popularized, include The Front Page meets the Future.
