27 Monday May 2024
Posted in Fashion and Beauty, Marilyn Monroe
≈ Comments Off on Marie Irvine: Marilyn’s New York Make-Up Artist
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Arthur Miller, Cosmetics, Erin Parsons, Fabled Enchantresses, Happy Birthday Mr. President, Harry Belafonte, John F. Kennedy, Life Magazine, Make-Up, Marie Irvine, Marilyn Monroe, New York, Richard Avedon, Something's Got To Give, The Misfits, Twentieth Century Fox
Marie Irvine, who worked as a make-up artist to Marilyn Monroe in New York, died aged 99 in a Florida care facility on January 15, 2024. Continue reading
23 Sunday Jul 2023
Posted in Books, History, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Politics
≈ Comments Off on ‘Public, Private, Secret’: From Jackie to Marilyn – and Back Again
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Barbara Leaming, Bert Stern, C. David Heymann, David Stenn, Diana Vreeland, Donald McGovern, Dr. Marianne Kris, Ethel Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, George Smathers, Happy Birthday Mr. President, J. Randy Taraborrelli, Jacqueline Kennedy, Jamie Auchincloss, Jean Harlow, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., Judith Campbell Exner, Kitty Kelley, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Norman Mailer, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Peter Lawford, Ralph Roberts, Robert F. Kennedy, Sam Giancana, Scott Fortner, William Kuhn
J. Randy Taraborrelli is a prolific celebrity biographer whose many bestsellers include The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe (2009), later dramatised in a TV mini-series of the same name (see here.) And although she never met America’s First Lady, speculation about Marilyn’s association with the Kennedy brothers has recently generated headlines in media coverage of his latest book, Jackie: Private, Public, Secret. Continue reading
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