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Sixty Years Later: Scandal ’63 Revisited

13 Monday Nov 2023

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Art and Photography, Books, Fashion and Beauty, Film, History, Music, Periodicals, Poetry, Politics, Profumo Affair

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“In Britain at the start of the 1960s, Victorian values are still mainstream. There is a rich ruling class who are better than everybody else, women are mostly thought of as the property of the men around them and if you are Black, discrimination, IS the culture. I believe the Profumo scandal shone a light on all of that poison and was another step on the road that we are still very much on, to a more equal society. So, I think in some ways the Profumo scandal was a good thing. But for my mother, I am sure she would say, ‘What a price I had to pay!’”– Seymour Platt, ‘My Mother, Christine Keeler’ Continue reading →

‘Man, Woman and Sin’ and ‘A View From the Bridge’ at Cinecon

12 Tuesday Sep 2023

Posted by marina72 in Film, Jeanne Eagels, Marilyn Monroe, Theatre

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A View From the Bridge, Actors Lab, Actors Studio, Anna Christie, Arthur Miller, California, Carol Lawrence, Censorship, Cinecon Classic Film Festival, Eileen Heckart, El Segundo, Elia Kazan, Harry Cohn, House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC, Jeanne Eagels, John Gilbert, London, Man Woman and Sin, Marilyn Monroe, Maureen Stapleton, Monta Bell, Morris Carnovsky, New Watergate Club, Norman Rosten, Old Town Music Hall, Raf Vallone, Sidney Lumet, Silent Movies, Ted Coy, The Hook

Man, Woman and Sin – the final silent film starring Jeanne Eagels, and her only Hollywood production – enjoyed a rare big-screen outing during the Labour Day weekend, as part of the 59th Cinecon Classic Film Festival at the historic Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, California. Continue reading →

61 Years Ago: Retracing Marilyn’s Moment in Time

05 Saturday Aug 2023

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Books, Documentaries, Marilyn Monroe, Television, Updates

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Marilyn Monroe died 61 years ago; after passing into eternal rest, her body was found in the early hours of August 5th, 1962. Continue reading →

‘Public, Private, Secret’: From Jackie to Marilyn – and Back Again

23 Sunday Jul 2023

Posted by marina72 in Books, History, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Politics

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J. Randy Taraborrelli is a prolific celebrity biographer whose many bestsellers include The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2009), later dramatised in a TV mini-series of the same name (see here.) And although she never met America’s First Lady, speculation about Marilyn’s association with the Kennedy brothers has recently generated headlines in media coverage of his latest book, Jackie: Private, Public, Secret. Continue reading →

Dear Birthday Girl – Unwrapping the Marilyn Archive

01 Thursday Jun 2023

Posted by marina72 in Marilyn Monroe, Updates, Websites

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On what would be Marilyn Monroe’s 97th birthday, here’s a gift from me to all her fans. (The photo above – shot by Ed Feingersh in March 1955 – shows Marilyn looking up at a James Thurber drawing on the wall of Costello’s Restaurant, an Irish bar on Third Avenue in Manhattan,  beloved by the literati.)

As regular readers will know, I’m the author of The Mmm Girl, a novel about Marilyn Monroe – and way back in 2010, I started a daily blog on Marilyn called ES Updates, part of the Everlasting Star online community. After a decade, I moved to a fully independent blog, The Marilyn Report, which continues to this day.

So what is THE MARILYN  ARCHIVE? It’s a way of keeping all the highlights from the ES Updates era online. My focus is on preserving stories of lasting value pertaining to Marilyn’s remarkable life and career, and her enduring cultural impact. So I won’t be repeating the more ephemeral posts about screenings, exhibitions, etc unless they’re still relevant.

It’s a long project, covering Marilyn-related news from 2010-20 – and at the time of writing, I’ve been working on it for a year and am approximately halfway done. I’ll keep adding to the archive whenever I have time, and my posts are usually either chronological or related to topics of current interest. So if you want to know more, please bookmark The Marilyn Archive and search away!

Tara Hanks

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