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That Magic Click: Douglas Kirkland and Marilyn

19 Thursday Jan 2023

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

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Angelina Jolie, Bert Stern, Bob Beerman, Canada, Coco Chanel, Douglas Kirkland, Elizabeth Taylor, Eve Arnold, Judy Garland, Look Magazine, Marilyn Monroe, Michelle Williams, Milton Greene, Niagara, Pat Newcomb

Photo by Tim Mantoani

Douglas Morley Kirkland was born in 1934 in Toronto, and moved to the small town of Fort Erie, Ontario with his parents when he was three years old. His father, Morley, was a tailor who made and sold men’s suits from a store on Jervis Street, and his mother Evelyn kept the books.

“The first picture I took was with a Brownie box camera,” Douglas told American History magazine. “I was about seven or eight, and I was allowed to take a photo of my family standing at the front door on a very cold Christmas Day. It was a big deal to take a photo at that time because film wasn’t much available during the Second World War. There were eight exposures on that camera, and I had one opportunity to photograph my family. I pushed this box camera into my stomach to hold it very steady. So I heard that magic click; there it was for the first time. That is what has been pushing me ever since. And it’s taken me into worlds that I could never have imagined.” Continue reading →

Marilyn in Hollywood: The ‘Confidential’ Years

24 Saturday Nov 2018

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, Film, History, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals

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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 →

Elizabeth Taylor: The Accidental Feminist

02 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film

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Elizabeth Taylor, Feminism, For Books' Sake, M.G. Lord, The Accidental Feminist

My review of M.G. Lord’s The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness (And We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice) is published today at For Books’ Sake.

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Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011

Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011

23 Wednesday Mar 2011

Posted by marina72 in Film

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AIDS, AmFAR, Bert Stern, Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Max Lerner, Michael Jackson, Mike Todd, Montgomery Clift, Richard Burton, Truman Capote

In honour of the glorious Elizabeth Taylor, who passed away today, I’m posting an updated version of my tribute, Marilyn, Elizabeth and Cleopatra, first published on Immortal Marilyn in 2009. Continue reading →

Marilyn, Elizabeth and ‘Cleopatra’

17 Saturday Jan 2009

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Updates

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Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn and Liz, 1961

‘Marilyn, Elizabeth and Cleopatra‘, a new article by me for the ‘Films Marilyn Considered’ series, is now online at Immortal Marilyn

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