22 Wednesday Apr 2009
Posted in Art and Photography, Film, Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe by Jack Cardiff
Jack Cardiff, the renowned cinematographer, has died aged 94. The son of music hall entertainers, he acted in silent movies as a child. His earliest credits behind the camera were on Wings Of The Morning (1937), the first Technicolor film made in Britain, and a series of public information films during World War II. Continue reading
11 Saturday Apr 2009
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe
‘There are no second acts in American lives,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote – and he should know. Like Elvis Presley, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, Fitzgerald’s flame burned brightly, but was all too soon extinguished. Continue reading
27 Friday Mar 2009
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
The Abrams Discoveries series is a range of small paperbacks covering notable subjects in history, art, music and science. It provides a detailed but succinct look at individual topics, and a reference point for further study. Marilyn Monroe would doubtless have been amused to find herself scrutinised alongside King Arthur, Salvador Dali and the ancient Greeks. However, its title, The Last Goddess, is an appropriate one. The front cover uses that familiar image of Marilyn in a gold dress, cut to the navel, her spirit as elusive as a modern Mona Lisa. The back jacket includes a smaller still from her most successful film, Some Like It Hot. Continue reading
24 Tuesday Mar 2009
Posted in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe
Photographer Joseph Jasgur has died aged 89. Jasgur worked with Marilyn Monroe in 1946. She was then a 19 year-old aspiring model, still known as Norma Jeane Dougherty. Jasgur remembered her as ‘a shy girl, nothing like a typical model…with two sets of clothes – one she had on, and one in the laundry.’ Continue reading
16 Monday Feb 2009
Posted in Books, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, The Mmm Girl, Updates
≈ Comments Off on ‘The Mmm Girl’: A Haunting Experience
“The Mmm Girl has left an indelible series of images in my memory..this novel is more accurate, in many ways, than anything else that has been written about Marilyn and it is the only book to ever leave me with a lasting impression of the loneliness and desperation of her real life.”
Stuart P. Coates, author of Norma Jeane’s Wishes In Time
Read his full review here… Continue reading
Tara Hanks 
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