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Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels

01 Wednesday Aug 2012

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Dangerous Curves Atop Hollywood Heels: The Lives, Careers and Misfortunes of 14 Hard-Luck Girls of the Silent Screen is an illustrated paperback by Michael G. Ankerich, published in 2010 by BearManor Media, and named by the San Francisco Examiner as one of the top silent film books of that year. Continue reading →

Marilyn & Me: A Memoir in Words and Photographs

21 Thursday Jun 2012

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Lawrence Schiller was one of only three photographers granted access to the shooting of the much-vaunted ‘pool scene’ in Marilyn Monroe’s final, incomplete movie, Something’s Got to Give. Fifty years later, he has collected his pictures – including some never seen before – with a personal commentary, in a new, deluxe book, published by Taschen. Continue reading →

Mary Ann Lynch at the ‘Marilyn & Me’ Launch

11 Monday Jun 2012

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Photographer and artist Mary Ann Lynch, who has been capturing offbeat Marilyn sightings worldwide since 1992, attended the recent launch of Larry Schiller’s Marilyn & Me : A Memoir in Words and Photographs, at New York’s Steven Kasher Gallery.

Here are some of Mary Ann’s exclusive images, with personal commentary, taken during the event.

We can also look forward to hearing more from Mary Ann Lynch, who promises: “There’ll be more to come on Lawrence Schiller and his career extraordinaire, epitomized by his tribute to Marilyn, the story of their unexpected, unlikely professional relationship during her last two tumultuous years. It was a relationship that would change both their lives at the time…and his forever.”

Mary Ann Lynch

Photographs from Lawrence Schiller’s “Marilyn & Me”

opening receptions, May 30 and 31, 2012

Steven Kasher Gallery

521 W. 23rd Street, NYC.

The show runs through June 30, 2012.

Schiller’s extraordinary color poolside photograph of Marilyn in June 1962, on the set of “Something’s Got To Give,” her last and unfinished movie. Marilyn died August 5, 1962. In 2011 Schiller decided to undertake this ambitious project, a memoir in words and photographs, to appear during the 50th anniversary of her passing. He succeeded with class and gusto, bringing out two separate versions of the memoir and mounting a photographic exhibition moving about Europe and the United States.  Continue reading →