This year marks the 5oth anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death. Of the many books that will be published about the legendary star in coming months, Michelle Morgan‘s fully revised and updated biography, Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed, will surely rank among the finest. You can read my review over at For Books’ Sake.
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Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, tagged Biography, For Books' Sake, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Morgan on April 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Darkness Into Light: Ava Gardner and Marilyn
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Frank Sinatra, George Cukor, Howard Hughes, Jack Cardiff, Joe Mankiewicz, John F. Kennedy, John Huston, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Rooney on March 6, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A brunette and a blonde, born four years apart and raised in Depression era America: both found fame in post-war Hollywood, where their mythic beauty inspired directors, lovers and poets.
Eve Arnold 1912-2012
Posted in Art and Photography, Film, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Bement, East of Eden, Eve Arnold, James Joyce, Magnum Photos, Malcolm X, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, The Misfits, Ulysses on January 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Films Marilyn Wanted: ‘Guys and Dolls’
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Damon Runyon, Frank Sinatra, Guys and Dolls, Immortal Marilyn, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando on December 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This article is also published at Immortal Marilyn Films Marilyn Wanted: Guys and Dolls Born in Manhattan, Kansas in 1880 to a family of newspapermen, Damon Runyon found fame as a baseball columnist, and later for his humorous short stories chronicling the vibrant street life of New York. His eccentric characters – gamblers, hustlers and [...]
Marilyn’s Last Sessions
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Dr Ralph Greenson, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn's Last Sessions, Michel Schneider on November 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Marilyn Monroe’s final two years, as a patient of the psychiatrist, Dr Ralph Greenson – who saw her daily in the month before she died – have long been the subject of intense speculation. One of Greenson’s students, Lucy Freeman, published a study of their relationship, Why Norma Jean Killed Marilyn Monroe, while Luciano Mecacci’s [...]
My Week With Marilyn
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, tagged Colin Clark, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn, Simon Curtis, The Prince And The Showgirl on November 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
‘This is a fairy tale’, was the original tagline – later replaced by ‘this is a true story.’ My Week With Marilyn is an Anglo-American confection, based on Colin Clark’s memoirs of filming with Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe on The Prince and the Showgirl (1956).
Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Baseball, Jerome Charyn, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe on November 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last November, Morris Engleberg – former lawyer and executor of Joe DiMaggio’s estate – objected to a new biography of the baseball legend, or more precisely, its cover – a photo of DiMaggio with his second wife, Marilyn Monroe, taken by John Vachon in 1953.
Finishing the Picture
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Theatre, tagged Arthur Miller, Finishing the Picture, Marilyn Monroe, The Misfits on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Finishing the Picture: Miller, Monroe and The Misfits Finishing the Picture, Arthur Miller’s last play, opened in Chicago in October 2004, a few months before his death. It was inspired by Miller’s own memories of The Misfits, the movie he wrote for his then-wife, Marilyn Monroe.
Marilyn’s Photographers: Anthony Beauchamp
Posted in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Anthony Beauchamp, Immortal Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe on October 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »
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, [...]
American Blondes: Marilyn and Lana Turner
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, tagged Cindy De La Hoz, Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe on October 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
American Blondes: Marilyn and Lana Turner Marilyn Monroe is sometimes described as the last of Hollywood’s great sex symbols. Early in her career she was dubbed ‘the new Jean Harlow’, and she replaced Betty Grable as glamour queen at Twentieth Century-Fox. But what of Lana Turner, blonde bombshell of the 1940s? In her stunning pictorial [...]
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