Marilyn Miller

She held Tuesday Widow Soirees, which came into existence when her husband demanded a day per week off for his infidelities.

These soirees included the Talmadge sisters and their mother, Peg, actresses Marion Davies and Marilyn Miller, dancer extraordinaire Adele Astaire, and chorus girls kept by the wealthy New York elite.

These encounters actually would inform her work, and many of the topics discussed and incidents relayed became fodder for her plays and articles.

A close friendship of hers was with composer George Gershwin.

This turned out to be fortuitous in a number of ways.

On the boat over the Atlantic, she met two future friends, Marilyn Miller, a Jazz Age superstar who was then married to Mary Pickford's ne'er-do-well brother Jack, and who would become the inspiration for the stage name of Marilyn Monroe, and Clifton Webb.

Webb was Libby's future frequent co-star and close friend.

In 1925, he was already well-known in Broadway circles as a singing, dancing, acting triple threat who competed with Fred Astaire as one of the great partner dancers of the era.

We all know her as Marilyn Monroe.

There was already a famous actress named Marilyn Miller, so the studio execs suggested that she use Marilyn because there's nothing sexy about the name Norma.

Sorry for the Normas of the world.

Uh, they, they suggested that she use Marilyn, which I still don't think of Marilyn as that kind of a name.