Marilyn Monroe made her official television debut by appearing on the Jack Benny Show, the title of her segment was “The Honolulu Trip.” She was wearing an evening gown by Travilla. During the sketch Benny asks her to marry him, before her exit she sings “Bye Bye Baby.”
She was reluctant and didn’t really want to do it because on live television too many things could go wrong, but the Fox studio executives saw this as a great promotion for her new movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which went into general release in August 1953.
