07 Tuesday May 2024
Posted in Film, Jeanne Eagels
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Bristol, Derek Winnert, Film Noir UK, James Harrison, Jeanne Eagels, Jeanne Eagels (1957), Jeffrey Kaufman, Joan Crawford, Kim Novak, Rain, Walter Huston
A midday screening of Lewis Milestone’s Rain (1932) heads up a double bill at the Bristol Aquarium cinema this Saturday, May 11. The event boasts an introduction by programmer James Harrison of Film Noir UK, and is followed by another classic Joan Crawford vehicle, Sudden Fear (1952.) Continue reading
25 Thursday Apr 2024
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
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'I Never Took a Lesson in My Life', Arthur Miller, Colleen Townsend, Diana Herbert, Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe, Driving Miss Daisy, Endometriosis, F. Hugh Herbert, Helena Sorrell, House Un-American Activities Committee, Ian Ayres, John Gilmore, Johnny Hyde, Let's Make It Legal, Lon McCallister, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Remembered, Natalie Wood, Robert Karnes, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, Strictly for Kicks, Summer Lightning, Twentieth Century Fox, Walter Winchell, Warrensburg
Actress Diana Herbert, who met Marilyn Monroe on the set of her first movie, died aged 95 in Los Angeles on May 3, 2023. Continue reading
22 Friday Mar 2024
Posted in Art and Photography, Documentaries, Marilyn Monroe
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Ali Smith, Christie’s, Epitaph to Something’s Gotta Give, Marilyn Monroe, Market Harborough, Pauline Boty, Pop Art
Epitaph to Something’s Gotta Give – a 1962 painting by British pop artist Pauline Boty – was sold for £1,310,500 at Christie’s in London this week. It was one of three works inspired by Marilyn Monroe, whose influence I’ve discussed here – and the highest price reached for the late artist’s work to date. Continue reading
01 Friday Mar 2024
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Accent on Girls, Cinema Revival, Clara Bow, Columbus, David Stenn, Dorothy Arzner, Ina Ray Hutton, Jean Harlow, Jeanne Eagels, MGM Convention Reel, Ohio, Pre-Code, The Letter, Wexner Centre for the Arts
The first big-screen adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s The Letter is showing in a new 35mm restoration – from the sole surviving nitrate print – at 2:30 pm tomorrow, March 2, at the Wexner Centre for the Arts at Ohio State University in Columbus, as part of this year’s Cinema Revival. Continue reading
13 Tuesday Feb 2024
Posted in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals, Poetry
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Art Decades, Bruce Davidson, Christie’s, Christopher Gregory, Christopher Logue, Colour Her Gone, Epitaph to Something’s Gotta Give, Gazelli Art House, George Barris, Gone Ladies, John Aston, Lawrence Schiller, Life Magazine, Marc Kristal, Marilyn in Beads, Marilyn Monroe, My Colouring Book, Pauline Boty, Picture Show, Pop Art, Richard Avedon, Some Like It Hot, Something's Got To Give, Sue Tate, Tara Hanks, The Only Blonde in the World, Town Magazine
At left, Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon, 1959; and at right, Pauline Boty by John Aston, 1962
Pauline Boty was an English pop artist who created three paintings of Marilyn before her death from cancer, aged 28, in 1966. Although neglected for many years, Boty’s work is now being rediscovered – and in March, one of her Marilyn portraits will go under the hammer at Christie’s, as Joe Dziemianowicz reports for Barron’s Magazine. Continue reading
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