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The Last Misfit: Eli Wallach 1915-2014

04 Friday Jul 2014

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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The Last Misfit: Eli Wallach 1915-2014

Eli Herschel Wallach was born at Union Street, in Brooklyn’s Red Hook district, in December 1915. One of four children, he grew up above Bertha’s candy store, managed by his Polish immigrant parents – one of the few Jewish businesses in a predominantly Italian neighbourhood. Two months previously, Arthur Miller had been born in Harlem; while Elia Kazan, born in Istanbul in 1909, was living in New York with his Greek Orthodox family. Continue reading →

Marilyn and ‘Baby Doll’

04 Friday Dec 2009

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Baby Doll, Carroll Baker, Child Woman, Immortal Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe, Tennessee Williams

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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 →

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