About Marilyn:
“Marilyn performed several songs [for the troops in Korea], including ‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’ and ‘Kiss Me Again’, and joked and talked with the GIs in the crowd. One of them, Don Loraine, remembered: ‘I was a young Marine in Korea. Marilyn came out dressed in a heavy parka. She started to sing; suddenly stopped and said, “This is not what you came to see,” and took off the parka. She was dressed in a low-cut purple cocktail dress. She was so beautiful, we all went wild, and I might add it was colder than hell that day. She brought a lot of joy to a group of combat-weary Marines and I for one will never forget her.’”
