Video Slots – Diamond Cinema - Marilyn Monroe (TM)

As the song says: “I wish I could’ve know you, but I was just a kid, your candle burned out long ago, your legend never did.” I’m not ashamed to say it, I was in love with Marilyn Monroe. Probably just like most boys and men the world over. I was eight years old when she died, and I only began to appreciate who she was much later in life, when I grew up and started to watch these great old films. Now IGT has made a series of video slots based around the theme of the old silver screen days of the cinema. This game features various bonuses and many ways to win. When a wild symbol lands on the second and fourth reels, the whole reel becomes animated. This shows the legendary scene where Marilyn’s flowing white dress blows up around her waist as the subway train passes below and causes wind to blow up through the manhole. This is the classic scene from the film “The Seven Year Itch”, which Marilyn Monroe made while married to baseball’s legendary hitter Joe DiMaggio, who absolutely hated this scene.

Actually, the real truth behind the scene you get to see in the movie is that this was the only scene which was shot on a Hollywood sound stage. The rest of the film was made on location in New York. But when they were trying to film this scene, on a public street, there were so many people around watching them make that scene, and so many of them kept yelling at Marilyn and whistling whoopee, that the director could not get the shot. Also, Marilyn’s husband, Joe DiMaggio, was livid with this scene, and he kept yelling that he doesn’t want his wife to be shown “half naked” to the whole world. The actual scenes shot in New York on that street show Marilyn bare all the way to her waist and there is indeed a whole lot of Marilyn to be seen. In the end, these scenes were cut out of the film, and a very private scene was staged on a soundstage at the studio in Hollywood, which produced the very mild and timid scene we now see in the movie. Nevertheless, that scene is still considered as racy, and as a sort of a trademark of Marilyn’s allure. Well, so much for reminiscing. Back to the game.

When three, four or five of the Marilyn Bonus Magazine symbols land left-to-right on any active payline, you will get to play the Magazine Bonus. The voice of an actress impersonating the voice of Marilyn will then guide you through the bonus game. In this game, Marilyn’s image is shown on the covers of 12 magazines. Touch the magazine cover, and each will reveal a credit value bonus, a credit value plus another pick, or a gift box. All the credit values accumulate as the round progresses. For each extra pick you reveal, Marilyn’s voice will ask you to make another pick. And so on. If you get the gift box, you are then guided to the Gift Box Bonus. You will see a screen with several gift boxes. Pick a box and it will reveal your additional win credit value, which is then added to everything else you have won so far. To see what this game looks like, I have included a photo.