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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 Misfits’ (1961)

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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’s Photographers: Jean Howard

01 Sunday Jul 2012

Posted by marina72 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 →

American Blondes: Marilyn and Lana Turner

09 Sunday Oct 2011

Posted by marina72 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 →

Dear Mr Gable…

15 Thursday May 2008

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Updates

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Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, The Egyptian, The Misfits

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.

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