14 Tuesday May 2019
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Clark Gable, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Howard Keel, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Move Over Darling, Pillow Talk, Rock Hudson, Something's Got To Give, That Touch Of Mink, The Graduate, The Prince And The Showgirl, Thelma Ritter
“You take the grey skies out of my way
You make the sun shine brighter than Doris Day…”
– Wham!, ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go’ (1984) Continue reading
24 Saturday Nov 2018
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Barney Ruditsky, Bobby kennedy, Celebrity, Clark Gable, Confidential, Dan Dailey, Dick Powell, Dorothy Dandridge, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Gossip, Hollywood Research Incorporated, Howard Rushmore, Jeanne Carmen, Jerry Giesler, Joe DiMaggio, Joe Schenck, Johnnie Ray, Marilyn Monroe, Milton Greene, Nicholas Ray, Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Harrison, Robert Mitchum, Robert Slatzer, Rory Calhoun, Samantha Barbas, Scandal, Sonny Tufts, Tabloid, Wrong Door Raid
Samantha Barbas is a professor of law at the University of Buffalo, specialising in the history of America’s mass media. Her previous publications include Movie Crazy: Fans, Stars, and the Cult of Celebrity (2001), and The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons (2005.) In her latest book, Confidential Confidential: The Inside Story of Hollywood’s Notorious Scandal Magazine, she explores the lurid history and aftermath of a 1950s publishing phenomenon. Continue reading
04 Saturday Jul 2015
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Arthur Miller, BFI, British Film Institute, Clark Gable, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, The Misfits
The Misfits (1961) was reissued in the UK and Ireland in June, and also headlined a major retrospective, ‘Marilyn’, at the British Film Institute on London’s Southbank. The month-long season featured all but one of the sixteen films Marilyn Monroe made from 1952-62, of which The Misfits would be her last. Continue reading
04 Friday Jul 2014
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Actors Studio, Arthur Miller, Baby Doll, Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, Elia Kazan, Henry Hathaway, Lawrence Schiller, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Method Acting, Montgomery Clift, Norman Mailer, Ralph Roberts, The Misfits
‘The Misfits’ (1961)
This article can also be read at Immortal Marilyn.
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.
‘Even in my earliest memories, my wish was always the same: I wanted to be an actor,’ Wallach wrote in his 2005 memoir, The Good, the Bad and Me. Continue reading
01 Sunday Jul 2012
Posted in Art and Photography, Film, Marilyn Monroe
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Betty Grable, Charles Feldman, Clark Gable, Darryl F. Zanuck, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, Immortal Marilyn, Jean Howard, Johnny Hyde, Marilyn Monroe, Romanoff's, The Seven Year Itch
Jean Howard 1910-2000
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Marilyn’s Photographers: Jean Howard 1910-2000
The Hollywood actress and socialite turned photographer, Jean Howard, was born Ernestine Hill in Dallas, Texas, on October 13, 1910. As a teenager, she visited the studio of photographer Paul Mahoney. He encouraged her to take modelling work and she even used his surname.
In the late 1920s, Ernestine visited Hollywood with her father. Continue reading
09 Sunday Oct 2011
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
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Betty Grable, Cindy De La Hoz, Clark Gable, Dore Schary, Endometriosis, Jack Cole, Johnny Hyde, Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, MGM, Mickey Rooney, Otto Preminger, Sweater Girl
American Blondes: Marilyn and Lana Turner
Marilyn Monroe is sometimes described as the last of Hollywood’s great sex symbols. Early in her career she was dubbed ‘the new Jean Harlow’, and she replaced Betty Grable as glamour queen at Twentieth Century-Fox. But what of Lana Turner, blonde bombshell of the 1940s?
In her stunning pictorial biography, Lana: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies, co-written with Cindy De La Hoz (author of two books on Monroe), Turner’s daughter, Cheryl Crane, states that her mother ‘thought Marilyn Monroe was a fine actress besides being a fascinating personality’. Continue reading
15 Thursday May 2008
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Updates
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Two new articles for my series, ‘Another Side Of Marilyn’, are now on the Immortal Marilyn website. The first, for my ‘Films Marilyn Considered’ column, covers the 1954 epic The Egyptian. And ‘Dear Mr Gable’, for my ‘Marilyn’s Heroes’ topic, considers her admiration for the king of Hollywood, Clark Gable.
