24 Thursday Dec 2009
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals, Updates
My review of J. Randy Taraborrelli’s The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe is featured in the latest issue of the Mad About Marilyn fanzine. It first appeared here.
The current edition also features a vintage article by Earl Wilson, ‘In Defence of Marilyn’, and a profile of photographer John Florea.
23 Wednesday Dec 2009
Posted in Art and Photography, Film, Marilyn Monroe
≈ Comments Off on Bob Willoughby 1927-2009
Photographer Bob Willoughby has died at his home in Vence, France, aged 82. For many years he was the one of the most prominent still cameramen in the international film industry, largely due to his unobtrusive style and aesthetic sensibility. Critic Charles Champlin once described Willoughby’s work as transcending photojournalism to become ‘salon art’. Continue reading
20 Sunday Dec 2009
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
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Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Marilyn Monroe, Mick LaSalle, Paula Strasberg, Some Like It Hot, Tony Curtis
Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis are indelibly linked in the public consciousness for two main reasons: firstly, they co-starred in the comedy classic, Some Like It Hot (1959); and secondly, because when asked what kissing Marilyn was like, Curtis allegedly replied, ‘Like kissing Hitler.’ Continue reading
04 Friday Dec 2009
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
This article can also be read on the Immortal Marilyn website
American Child-Woman: Marilyn Monroe and Baby Doll
‘In her movies,’ Marie Clayton wrote in Unseen Archives, her 2005 pictorial biography of Marilyn Monroe, ‘she projected a unique and fascinating persona — a child-woman who was both innocent and full of sexuality, someone men desired, but women found unthreatening. In real life,’ Clayton adds, ‘she was a beautiful and complex woman with deep insecurities, who just wanted to be loved.’ Continue reading
18 Wednesday Nov 2009
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
'Some Like It Hot', 1959
Penny McGuiggan, a trumpeter and actress who appeared in Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 gangster spoof, Some Like It Hot, has died. Her (then uncredited) role was as a member of Sweet Sue’s Society Syncopators, an all-girl jazz band headed by conductor Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee), singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), and their hapless, bespectacled male manager, Bienstock (Dave Barry.) Continue reading
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