18 Wednesday Nov 2009
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
'Some Like It Hot', 1959
Penny McGuiggan, a trumpeter and actress who appeared in Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 gangster spoof, Some Like It Hot, has died. Her (then uncredited) role was as a member of Sweet Sue’s Society Syncopators, an all-girl jazz band headed by conductor Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee), singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), and their hapless, bespectacled male manager, Bienstock (Dave Barry.) Continue reading
14 Saturday Nov 2009
Posted in Art and Photography, Brighton, Marilyn Monroe
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Scott Fortner has added pictures of Marilyn sightings from around the world to his Marilyn Monroe Collection. Some photos taken while out and about in Brighton are included there, while above are some more photos from inside my home.
11 Wednesday Nov 2009
Posted in Marilyn Monroe, Theatre
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Suzie Kennedy
London theatregoers can enjoy two plays about Marilyn Monroe this autumn. Marilyn And Ella opens at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue on November 15th, showing on three consecutive Sundays. Continue reading
Tara Hanks 
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