13 Thursday Jun 2013
Posted in Fashion and Beauty, Marilyn Monroe
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Bert Stern, Chicago, Earl Gustie, Eve Arnold, Jackie Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Kenneth Battelle, Marilyn Monroe, New York, Some Like It Hot
Marilyn Monroe, styled by Kenneth for her appearance at the JFK birthday gala in 1962
Kenneth Battelle, who was dubbed ‘hairdresser to the stars’ during the 1950s, died at home in Wappinger Falls, New York, on May 12th, 2013. Continue reading
02 Saturday Apr 2011
Posted in Books, Magazines, Marilyn Monroe
≈ Comments Off on ‘Jackie or Marilyn’ Review Goes to Print
My review of Pamela Keogh’s Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? (first posted here) is reprinted in the latest issue of Mad About Marilyn magazine. Also featured are photographer Bill Carroll; a short story by Michael Williams; a vintage Photoplay article, ‘Orphan in Ermine’, a look back at Marilyn’s ‘night at the circus’ in 1955; and a review of John Vachon’s Lost Look Photos.
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21 Monday Feb 2011
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Television
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Jackie Kennedy, Jackie or Marilyn, Mad Men, Maidenform, Marilyn Monroe, Megan Hess, Pamela Keogh
‘Are you a Jackie or a Marilyn?’ is the question posed in ‘Maidenform’, Season 2, Episode 6 of AMC’s Mad Men. First broadcast in 2008, and set in 1961, the storyline concerns on a proposed advertising campaign for Playtex brassieres. On a drunken night out, the ad-men divide the female characters into two categories: ‘Jackies’ after America’s First Lady, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (later Onassis); and ‘Marilyns’, after Marilyn Monroe.
This episode was the inspiration behind Pamela Keogh’s new book, Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Timeless Lessons on Love, Power and Style. Keogh has previously covered other icons of the past, including Elvis Presley and Audrey Hepburn. She has also written about Kennedy in Jackie Style (2001), but this is her first full-length work on Monroe. Continue reading
