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Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances

16 Sunday May 2021

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Periodicals

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Arthur Miller, As Young As You Feel, Billy Wilder, Bus Stop, Chris Wade, Clash By Night, Don't Bother To Knock, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, John Huston, Ladies of the Chorus, Laurence Olivier, Love Happy, Love Nest, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances, Monkey Business, Niagara, River of No Return, Scenes Magazine, Some Like It Hot, Sophia Loren, The Asphalt Jungle, The Countess From Hong Kong, The Misfits, The Prince And The Showgirl, The Seven Year Itch

“My God, I think there have been more books on Marilyn Monroe than on World War II, and there’s a great similarity.”

So said Billy Wilder, who made two classic films with Monroe – and although the great director was prone to exaggerate, he had the battle scars to prove his point. Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances is the latest in an ongoing series from the prolific Chris Wade – a musician and filmmaker in his own right, with an admirable DIY ethic – whose past subjects include Marlene Dietrich, Sophia Loren and Madonna. Continue reading →

Some Kind Of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe

04 Sunday Aug 2019

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction

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All About Eve, Amanda Konkle, Audrey Hepburn, Billy Wilder, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bus Stop, Clash By Night, Don't Bother To Knock, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, George Axelrod, How to Marry a Millionaire, Jack Cole, Jayne Mansfield, Kim Stanley, Let's Make Love, Love Happy, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, Method Acting, Monkey Business, Niagara, O. Henry's Full House, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot, The Asphalt Jungle, The Misfits, The Prince And The Showgirl, The Seven Year Itch, We're Not Married

In 1954, Marilyn Monroe was rehearsing ‘Do It Again’ as part of her show for U.S. troops in Korea, when the officer in charge of her tour deemed the Gershwin standard “too suggestive,” and insisted she change the title to ‘Kiss Me Again.’ “People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of as a person,” she remarked in her memoir, My Story. “They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts.” Her comment inspired the title (and epigraph) for a new book, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe by Amanda Konkle, assistant professor of literature and film studies at Georgia Southern University. Continue reading →

Marilyn: A British Love Affair

05 Friday Oct 2012

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe

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Andre De Dienes, Anthony Beauchamp, Cecil Beaton, Dame Edith Sitwell, Don't Bother To Knock, Frankie Vaughan, Let's Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, Marlyn Monroe: A British Love Affair, Michelle Morgan, Nahum Baron, National Portrait Gallery, Pauline Boty, Picture Post, Roy Ward Baker, The Prince And The Showgirl, Wilfred Hyde-White

‘Marilyn Monroe: A British Love Affair’ is a small display in Room 33 of London’s National Portrait Gallery, featuring photographs and vintage magazine covers related to The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), and other homegrown influences on Hollywood’s most iconic star. Continue reading →

Documentary: Marilyn’s Last Sessions

16 Monday May 2011

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Arline Hunter, Documentaries, Don't Bother To Knock, Dr Ralph Greenson, George Belmont, John Miner, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: The Last Sessions, Michel Schneider, Niagara, Patrick Jeudy

Marilyn: The Last Sessions is a documentary made by Patrick Jeudy in 2008, based on a 2006 novel by Michel Schneider.

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Roy Ward Baker 1916-2010

12 Tuesday Oct 2010

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Don't Bother To Knock, Marilyn Monroe, Roy Ward Baker

Roy Ward Baker, the Englishman who directed Marilyn Monroe in Don’t Bother to Knock, has died aged 93. Continue reading →

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