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Tag Archives: Billy Wilder

Jay Kanter: Agent to Marlon, Marilyn and More

24 Friday Jan 2025

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Arthur Miller, Arthur P. Jacobs, Beverly Glen, Billy Wilder, Can-Can, East of Eden, Frank Sinatra, Gareth Wigan, Grace Kelly, Jay Kanter, Joe DiMaggio, Judy Balaban, Laurence Olivier, Lew Wasserman, Madison Square Garden, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe Productions, Marlon Brando, MCA, Milton Greene, Sammy Davis Jr., Some Came Running, Terence Rattigan, The Apartment, The Prince And The Showgirl, The Rose Tattoo, The Sound and the Fury, Twentieth Century Fox, USS Bennington, Walter Wanger, William Faulkner

Jay Kanter, the veteran Hollywood agent turned producer, died aged 97 on August 6, 2024. Continue reading →

Walter Mirisch: ‘Some Like It Hot’ Producer Dies at 101

08 Wednesday Mar 2023

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Dick Patterson, Elmore Leonard, Fanfare der Liebe, Harold Mirisch, Herb Baker, Jack Lemmon, Joe Hyams, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe, Marvin Mirisch, NBC, Paula Strasberg, Sidney Poitier, Some Like It Hot, Steven Spielberg, The Mirisch Company, Tony Curtis, United Artists, Vic Damone, Walter Mirisch

Walter Mirisch, producer of Some Like It Hot, has died aged 101. Continue reading →

Zimbelism: Marilyn’s ‘Momento’ on 52nd and Lexington 

30 Monday Jan 2023

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Billy Wilder, Canada, Garry Winogrand, George S. Zimbel, Joe DiMaggio, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe: Still Life, Momento, Natasha Lytess, New York, The Night I Shot Marilyn, The Seven Year Itch, Tom Ewell, Trans-Lux Theatre, Walter Winchell, Zimbelism

George S. Zimbel, the photographer who documented the shooting of Marilyn Monroe’s most famous movie scene, has died aged 93.  Continue reading →

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe

24 Wednesday Aug 2022

Posted by marina72 in Marilyn Monroe, Television

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Al Rosen, Angie Novello, Anthony Summers, Arthur James, Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Billy Woodfield, Bobby Kennedy, Conspiracy Theories, Danny Greenson, Documentaries, Documentary, Dr Ralph Greenson, Emma Cooper, Eunice Murray, Fred Otash, George Cukor, Gladys Whitten, Gloria Romanoff, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, Harry Hall, Henry Rosenfeld, Hildi Greenson, Jane Russell, Jeanne Martin, Jim Doyle, Joan Greenson, Joe DiMaggio, John Danoff, John F. Kennedy, John Huston, John Sherlock, Johnny Hyde, Juliet Roswell, Ken Hunter, Marilyn Monroe, Milton Greene, Natalie Trundy, Netflix, Peggy Feury, Reed Wilson, Robert F. Kennedy, Robin Thorne, Say Goodbye to the President, Sydney Guilaroff, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe, Walter Schaefer

“Oh, I’d like to ask you – how do you go about writing a life story? Because the true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things. If you ever get any of those things you want to ask, I’ll tell you. All those things come from the truth, you know? Because otherwise, it’s hard to know where to start if you don’t start with the truth.” – Marilyn Monroe Continue reading →

The Many Faces of Nehemiah Persoff

19 Tuesday Apr 2022

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Television, Theatre

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Actors Studio, Alvah Bessie, Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Bus Stop, Charles Lederer, Clash By Night, Death of a Salesman, Edward G. Robinson, Elia Kazan, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Nehemiah Persoff, Some Like It Hot, The Sex Symbol, The Symbol, Tony Curtis

The great character actor Nehemiah Persoff, whose many roles included the mobster ‘Little Bonaparte’ in Some Like It Hot, has died at the grand old age of 102. Continue reading →

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