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Category Archives: Film

2025: A Year in Film

12 Monday Jan 2026

Posted by marina72 in Film, Non-Fiction, Television

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2025, A Year in Films and TV, Barbara Loden, BFI, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Brian Murphy, Chase Infiniti, Cheers, Claudia Cardinale, Close Your Eyes, Corsica, David Lynch, Diane Ladd, Eka Chavleishvili, Elena Gorfinkel, Elene Naveriani, Film Noir, From Hilde With Love, Gene Hackman, George and Mildred, George Wendt, Georgia, Germany, Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Hard Truths, Hilde Coppi, India, Iran, It Was Just An Accident, Jafar Panahi, Joana Santos, Josh O'Connor, Julien Colonna, Kathy Burke, Kelly Reichardt, Laura Carreira, Liv Lisa Fries, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Martin Scorsese, Mayukh Sen, Merle Oberon, Mike Leigh, Nina Mae McKinney, Norman Eshley, On Falling, One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, Picturehouse, Portugal, Prunella Scales, Rebekah Del Rio, Robert Redford, Sandhya Suri, Santosh, Saveriu Santucci, Scotland, Shahana Goswami, Some Like It Hot, Spain, Steven Cohan, Terence Stamp, The Kingdom, The Mastermind, The New Hollywood, Thomas Pynchon, Victor Erice, Wanda

Adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Vineland, no recent film speaks to our chaotic moment like One Battle After Another. Hilarious and unrelenting – with bravura turns from Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, newcomer Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall – this screwball odyssey affirms director Paul Thomas Anderson as America’s millennial auteur. Continue reading →

Joan Mellen: Marilyn’s First Female Filmographer

22 Monday Sep 2025

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Bus Stop, Clash By Night, Don't Bother To Knock, Feminism, Frank Powolny, Gene Kornman, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Germany, Gloria Steinem, Italy, Joan Mellen, John F. Kennedy, Larry McMurtry, Marilyn Monroe, Netherlands, Nickolas Muray, Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies, Ralph Schoenman, Richard Avedon, Sam Shaw, Sexism, Some Like It Hot, The Misfits, Turkey, Typecasting

Joan Mellen – the academic whose many books included the first female-authored (and feminist) critical biography of Marilyn Monroe, with a primary focus on her film career – has died aged 83. Continue reading →

Atomic Blondes: Marilyn and Kathleen Hughes

21 Sunday Sep 2025

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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3D, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Barbara Rush, Censorship, Cinemascope, Cleo Moore, Diana Herbert, F. Hugh Herbert, Film Noir, Hollywood Museum, Howard Hughes, It Came From Outer Space, Jane Russell, Kathleen Hughes, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Remembered, River of No Return, Rock Hudson, Rory Calhoun, Science Fiction, Stanley Rubin, Stars and Stripes, Strictly for Kicks, The Glass Web, The Seven Year Itch, Twentieth Century Fox

Kathleen Hughes, star of It Came From Outer Space, has died aged 96. As well as playing the ‘bad girl’ in cult movies and appearing on numerous TV shows, she was married to River of No Return producer Stanley Rubin for sixty years, and befriended many stars from Hollywood’s golden age, including Marilyn Monroe. Continue reading →

Hollywood or Bust: Remembering June Wilkinson

14 Sunday Sep 2025

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Film, Periodicals

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Blonde Bombshell, Eastbourne, Elvis Presley, Francis Ford Coppola, John Cassavetes, June Wilkinson, Mamie Van Doren, Marilyn Monroe, Playboy, Russ Meyer, Seven Arts Productions, Sex Symbols, Sexploitation

June Wilkinson, who has died aged 85, was a British-born showgirl who became a popular Playboy model and B-movie starlet after crossing the Atlantic in 1958. One of the most curvaceous blonde bombshells, June fought to prove herself as more than just another pin-up – and in an echo of Marilyn Monroe’s romance with Joe DiMaggio, she also married (and divorced) a famous athlete. During a lengthy, unconventional career, she reinvented herself as a stage diva, cable TV broadcaster, and fitness guru.
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Jay Kanter: Agent to Marlon, Marilyn and More

24 Friday Jan 2025

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Arthur Miller, Arthur P. Jacobs, Beverly Glen, Billy Wilder, Can-Can, East of Eden, Frank Sinatra, Gareth Wigan, Grace Kelly, Jay Kanter, Joe DiMaggio, Judy Balaban, Laurence Olivier, Lew Wasserman, Madison Square Garden, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe Productions, Marlon Brando, MCA, Milton Greene, Sammy Davis Jr., Some Came Running, Terence Rattigan, The Apartment, The Prince And The Showgirl, The Rose Tattoo, The Sound and the Fury, Twentieth Century Fox, USS Bennington, Walter Wanger, William Faulkner

Jay Kanter, the veteran Hollywood agent turned producer, died aged 97 on August 6, 2024. Continue reading →

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