25 Friday Nov 2011
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
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Arthur Miller, Colin Clark, Eddie Redmayne, Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, Milton Greene, My Week With Marilyn, Paula Strasberg, Simon Curtis, The Prince And The Showgirl, Zoe Wanamaker
‘This is a fairy tale’, was the original tagline – later replaced by ‘this is a true story.’ Continue reading
14 Monday Nov 2011
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe
Last November, Morris Engelberg – former lawyer and executor of Joe DiMaggio’s estate – objected to a new biography of the baseball legend, or more precisely, its cover – a photo of DiMaggio with his second wife, Marilyn Monroe, taken by John Vachon in 1953. Continue reading
23 Sunday Oct 2011
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Theatre
Finishing the Picture: Miller, Monroe and The Misfits
Finishing the Picture, Arthur Miller’s last play, opened in Chicago in October 2004, a few months before his death. It was inspired by Miller’s own memories of The Misfits, the movie he wrote for his then-wife, Marilyn Monroe. The play is based on actual events that took place during the shoot: the fire that halted filming in Reno, causing power to be cut throughout the city – except for in Miller’s hotel suite, where he stayed up all night rewriting scenes from his script. Miller revisits that evening to explain why another ten days passed before work resumed. Continue reading
10 Monday Oct 2011
Posted in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe
This article is also published at Immortal Marilyn
Full gallery here
Focus on Marilyn: Anthony Beauchamp
Tony and Vivienne
Anthony Beauchamp Entwistle was born in England towards the end of World War I, in 1917 or 1918. His father was Ernest George Entwistle, who established an art school at St Pancras, London, with the illustrator, J.H, Valda, from 1895-1912. Anthony’s mother, Florence Vivienne Mellish – better known as ‘Vivienne of London’ – married Entwistle in 1913, and they had one other son, Clive, who became an architect, and also designed a rocket used as a secret weapon during World War II. ‘Tony was always very brilliant as a little boy,’ Vivienne told Australian Women’s Weekly in 1971. ‘He left grammar school when he was just under 15 with an “excellent” in every subject.’ Continue reading
09 Sunday Oct 2011
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
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Betty Grable, Cindy De La Hoz, Clark Gable, Dore Schary, Endometriosis, Jack Cole, Johnny Hyde, Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, MGM, Mickey Rooney, Otto Preminger, Sweater Girl
American Blondes: Marilyn and Lana Turner
Marilyn Monroe is sometimes described as the last of Hollywood’s great sex symbols. Early in her career she was dubbed ‘the new Jean Harlow’, and she replaced Betty Grable as glamour queen at Twentieth Century-Fox. But what of Lana Turner, blonde bombshell of the 1940s? In her stunning pictorial biography, Lana: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies, co-written with Cindy De La Hoz (author of two books on Monroe), Turner’s daughter, Cheryl Crane, states that her mother ‘thought Marilyn Monroe was a fine actress besides being a fascinating personality’. Continue reading
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