My tribute to Hal Schaefer, the jazz pianist who died recently. This article can also be read at Immortal Marilyn. (more…)
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Hal Schaefer 1925-2012
Posted in Marilyn Monroe, Music, tagged Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hal Schaefer, Irving Berlin, Jazz, Joe DiMaggio, Lionel Newman, Louella Parsons, Marilyn Monroe, Piano, River of No Return, There's No Business Like Show Business, Wrong Door Raid on January 2, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Marilyn’s Photographers: Jean Howard
Posted in Art and Photography, Film, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Betty Grable, Charles Feldman, Clark Gable, Darryl F. Zanuck, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, Immortal Marilyn, Jean Howard, Johnny Hyde, Marilyn Monroe, Romanoff's, The Seven Year Itch on July 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Jean Howard 1910-2000
This article is also published at Immortal Marilyn
Marilyn’s Photographers: Jean Howard 1910-2000
The Hollywood actress and socialite turned photographer, Jean Howard, was born Ernestine Hill in Dallas, Texas, on October 13, 1910. As a teenager, she visited the studio of photographer Paul Mahoney. He encouraged her to take modelling work and she even used his surname.
In the late 1920s, Ernestine visited Hollywood with her father. (more…)
‘A Girl’s Best Friend’: Jane Russell 1921-2011
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Adoption, Bob Hope, Bob Waterfield, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hughes, Jane Russell, Jim Dougherty, Marilyn Monroe, Max Reinhardt, Robert Mitchum, Santa Maria, The Paleface, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, Van Nuys High School on March 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Jane Russell, one of Hollywood’s great sex symbols, and star of such films as The Outlaw, The Paleface, His Kind of Woman and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, has died aged 89 at her home in California’s Santa Maria Valley, of a respiratory illness. (more…)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Posted in Brighton, Film, Marilyn Monroe, tagged Duke of York's Brighton, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe on March 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Duke of York’s Picture House at Preston Circus, Brighton, is the oldest independent cinema in England and celebrates its centenary this month. Like many local residents, I can ring the changes in my own life by recalling my frequent visits to the Duke’s over the last 16 years. (For more on Brighton’s cinematic past, click here.)
When I first moved to Brighton in 1994, I would often attend the matinees as it was a safe and friendly place for a single girl to hang out. Among my favourite films at the time were Hal Hartley’s Amateur and Kieslowski’s Three Colours series. And one afternoon before Christmas, I saw Marilyn Monroe on the big screen for the first time, in her most celebrated film, Some Like It Hot. (more…)
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