Category Archives: Marilyn Monroe

‘Jackie or Marilyn’ Review Goes to Print

02 Saturday Apr 2011

Posted by in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals

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My review of Pamela Keogh’s Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? (first posted here) is reprinted in the latest issue of Mad About Marilyn magazine. Also featured are photographer Bill Carroll; a short story by Michael Williams; a vintage Photoplay article, ‘Orphan in Ermine’, a look back at Marilyn’s ‘night at the circus’ in 1955; and a review of John Vachon’s Lost Look Photos.

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‘A Girl’s Best Friend’: Jane Russell 1921-2011

07 Monday Mar 2011

Posted by in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Jane Russell, one of Hollywood’s great sex symbols, and star of such films as The Outlaw, The Paleface, His Kind of Woman and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, has died aged 89 at her home in California’s Santa Maria Valley, of a respiratory illness. Continue reading →

Rebelling Against the Gaze: ‘MM – Personal’

26 Saturday Feb 2011

Posted by in Art and Photography, Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction

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Two steel filing cabinets, removed from Marilyn Monroe’s home in the days following her death in 1962, have become part of the paraphernalia surrounding her legend. Frequently mentioned in biographies, the cabinets became as symbolic as Marilyn’s white piano or the fluffy tiger found on her lawn by police.  According to whom you read, the files held the key to Monroe’s inner soul or the truth about her untimely demise. Continue reading →