Pamela Blair which later opened at the Kennedy Center to critical acclaim. She also appeared in "Sugar", the stage musical version of the film "Some Like It Hot", in which she played "Sugar Kane", a role made famous by Marilyn Monroe. In 1974, Blair was invited by Michael Bennett to participate in the workshops from which "A Chorus Line" was developed. The character of "Valerie Clark" was in large part, based on her own life, although the surgical enhancement came from another dancer. "Val was based on Mitzi Hamilton, who actually underwent surgery to enhance her figure, and Pam Blair, whose mixture
Death of Marilyn Monroe guilty, and charges against Clemmons were dropped after he resigned from the LAPD. In the 1960s, Monroe's death was also discussed in Charles Hamblett's "Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?" (1966) and in James A. Hudson's "The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe" (1968). Neither Capell's, Hamblett's, or Hudson's accounts were widely disseminated. The allegations of murder first became part of mainstream discussion with the publication of Norman Mailer's "" in 1973. Despite not having any evidence to prove it, Mailer repeated the claim that Monroe and Robert F. Kennedy had an affair and speculated that she was killed by either the FBI