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This article is also published at Immortal Marilyn Grit and Glamour: Marilyn and Eve Arnold “I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman [...]

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I was surprised – and flattered – to find my 2004 novella, Wicked Baby, listed in the bibliography to this book which accompanied the 2010 exhibition at London’s Mayor Gallery, Christine Keeler: My Life in Pictures. The catalogue includes photographs of Keeler – the iconic model at the centre of 1963′s Profumo Affair – and [...]

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Wuthering Heights – the classic novel by Emily Brontё, published in 1848 – was first filmed by William Wyler in the sunny hills of California nearly a century later. The French-born actress, Juliet Binoche, starred in a 1992 remake. There have been several TV adaptations, and non-English versions from Luis Bunuel and Jacques Rivette.

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This article is also published at Immortal Marilyn Full gallery here Focus on Marilyn: Anthony Beauchamp  Tony and Vivienne Anthony Beauchamp Entwistle was born in England towards the end of World War I, in 1917 or 1918.  His father was Ernest George Entwistle, who established an art school at St Pancras, London, with the illustrator, J.H, [...]

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This article is also published (with full gallery) at Immortal Marilyn John Florea 1916-2000 John Florea (known as ‘Johnny’) was born in Alliance, Ohio in 1916, of Romanian origin. He grew up in Los Angeles.

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Angry art for troubled times: found on a wall outside the Cobbler’s Thumb pub, New England Street, Brighton. The (anonymous) rhyme dates from the 17th century, protesting against land enclosure and rural dispossession.

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Two steel filing cabinets, removed from Marilyn Monroe’s home in the days following her death in 1962, have become part of the paraphernalia surrounding her legend. Frequently mentioned in biographies, the cabinets became as symbolic as Marilyn’s white piano or the fluffy tiger found on her lawn by police.  According to whom you read, the [...]

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My profile of photographer John Vachon, whose work with Marilyn Monroe is collected in a new book, Marilyn, August 1953: The Lost ‘Look’ Photos, has been posted on the Immortal Marilyn website. My fellow Immortal Marilyn staffers are currently adding monthly updates for February, so watch out for more new features (articles, reviews, artwork) over [...]

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Cindy De La Hoz is an American film historian, and has previously written about Lana Turner and Lucille Ball, as well as Platinum Fox (2007), a pictorial retrospective of Marilyn Monroe’s career at Twentieth Century Fox. The latter book was followed by a miniature edition, simply entitled Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe: The Personal Archive is a [...]

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Richard C. Miller, one of the first photographers to work with the young Marilyn Monroe, has died in a New York hospital of complications from pneumonia. He was 98.

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