10 Tuesday Sep 2024
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Music, Television, Theatre
≈ Comments Off on Rosalina Neri: From ‘La Marilyn Italiana’ to Milanese Diva
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Arthur Miller, Diana Dors, Italy, ITV, Jack Hylton, John F. Kennedy, Lookalikes, Marilyn Monroe, Milan, Opera, Rosalina Neri, The Misfits
Rosalina Neri, the singer and actress known as ‘la Marilyn Italiana’ (or ‘Marilina’) has died aged 96 after a short illness. Continue reading
07 Tuesday May 2024
Posted in Film, Jeanne Eagels
≈ Comments Off on Rain in May: Joan in Bristol, and Jeanne in Oz
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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
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≈ Comments Off on Children of Hollywood: Marilyn and Diana Herbert
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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
01 Friday Mar 2024
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≈ Comments Off on Cinema Revival: ‘The Letter’ in Columbus, Ohio
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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
18 Thursday Jan 2024
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Music, Non-Fiction
≈ Comments Off on Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
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42nd Street, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Alice Faye, Bernard F. Dick, Betty Grable, Broadway, Carousel, Darryl F. Zanuck, Down Boy, Fred Karger, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, George Cukor, How to Be Very Very Popular, How to Marry a Millionaire, Howard Hawks, Irving Berlin, Jane Russell, Jayne Mansfield, June Haver, Ladies of the Chorus, Let's Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Musicals, Orson Welles, Richard Zanuck, River of No Return, Sheree North, Shirley Temple, Something's Got To Give, Sonja Henie, The Girl Can't Help It, The Jazz Singer, There's No Business Like Show Business, Twentieth Century Fox, Vivian Blaine, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
Bernard F. Dick, a professor of English and communication at Fairleigh-Dickson University in New Jersey, has published many titles on the classical era of Hollywood film-making, covering a wide range of figures like producers Harry Cohn and Hal B. Wallis; directors Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Billy Wilder; actresses Claudette Colbert and Rosalind Russell; and the blacklisted Hollywood Ten. In his 2018 book, That Was Entertainment, Dick hailed the MGM musical as the genre’s ‘Gold Standard,’ reeling off a list of the studio’s all-time greats from The Wizard of Oz to Singin’ in the Rain. Continue reading
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