08 Wednesday Mar 2023
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
≈ Comments Off on Walter Mirisch: ‘Some Like It Hot’ Producer Dies at 101
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Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Dick Patterson, Elmore Leonard, Fanfare der Liebe, Harold Mirisch, Herb Baker, Jack Lemmon, Joe Hyams, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe, Marvin Mirisch, NBC, Paula Strasberg, Sidney Poitier, Some Like It Hot, Steven Spielberg, The Mirisch Company, Tony Curtis, United Artists, Vic Damone, Walter Mirisch
Walter Mirisch, producer of Some Like It Hot, has died aged 101. Continue reading
14 Tuesday May 2019
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
≈ Comments Off on Sunshine Blondes: Marilyn and Doris Day
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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
26 Thursday Apr 2018
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Television
≈ Comments Off on Urban Myths: ‘It’s Me, Sugar’
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Adam Brody, Alex Pettyfer, Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Donald Wolfe, Dougray Scott, Felicity Montagu, Gemma Arterton, It's Me Sugar, Jack Lemmon, James Purefoy, Marilyn Monroe, Paula Strasberg, Sky Arts, Some Like It Hot, Tony Curtis, Urban Myths
“She was the biggest star in the world; she had a lot of attention on her, a lot of pressure… there is a scene, when she comes to the door, she says, ‘It’s me, Sugar.’ It took forty-seven shots to make this scene. The film is about that moment, the crisis she had. It’s funny because it’s stupid not to be able to say ‘It’s me, Sugar’… It’s tragic too.” Continue reading
15 Sunday Mar 2015
Posted in Art and Photography, Film, Marilyn Monroe
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Adele Jergens, All About Eve, Ava Gardner, Barbara Leaming, Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Born Yesterday, Cary Grant, Charles Feldman, Charles Laughton, Clay Campbell, Clifford Odets, Confidential, Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend, Film Noir, Frank Sinatra, Fred Karger, George Cukor, Gilda, Harry Cohn, Helen Hunt, Howard Hawks, Jack Cole, Jack Lemmon, Jerry Wald, John Kobal, Johnny Hyde, Joseph Cotten, Judy Holliday, Lauren Bacall, Louella Parsons, Madonna, Manuel Puig, Marilyn Monroe, Miss Sadie Thompson, Only Angels Have Wings, Orson Welles, Put the Blame on Mame, Rain, Rita Hayworth, Something's Got To Give, Tales That Witness Madness, Terence Rattigan, The Asphalt Jungle, The Barefoot Contessa, The Shawshank Redemption, The Story on Page One, Vogue, Winfield Sheehan, Yves Montand
Rita Hayworth, photographed by Bob Landry (1941)
In August 1941 – less than four months before the bombing of Pearl Harbour plunged America into World War II – Rita Hayworth graced the cover of Life magazine. She was pictured in a white bikini, grinning as photographer Bob Landry caught her eating lunch on a Los Angeles beach. But this delightfully natural image made less impact than another picture inside the magazine.
Here, Landry depicted a far more seductive Rita, either relaxing in her own bedroom as the caption claimed, or on a studio prop bed. And the white silk negligee that she wore may have been borrowed from Columbia’s wardrobe department. Gazing boldly at the camera, Hayworth seemed to promise more than the artful illusion of glamour. Continue reading
03 Friday Aug 2012
Posted in Film, Interviews, Marilyn Monroe, Radio
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Alec Baldwin, Archive on 4, Arthur Gelb, BBC, Carroll Baker, Charles Marowitz, George Cukor, Harvey Weinstein, Jack Lemmon, Jayne Mansfield, Joshua Logan, Lawrence Schiller, Leon Wieseltier, Marilyn Monroe, Marina Warner, Maureen Dowd, My Week With Marilyn, Simon Curtis, Susan Greenfield, Sybil Thorndike, The Smart Dumb Blonde
The 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death falls this weekend. In tribute, I have reviewed a recent radio documentary, celebrating her beauty, talent and intelligence. Continue reading
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