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Atomic Blondes: Marilyn and Kathleen Hughes

21 Sunday Sep 2025

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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3D, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Barbara Rush, Censorship, Cinemascope, Cleo Moore, Diana Herbert, F. Hugh Herbert, Film Noir, Hollywood Museum, Howard Hughes, It Came From Outer Space, Jane Russell, Kathleen Hughes, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Remembered, River of No Return, Rock Hudson, Rory Calhoun, Science Fiction, Stanley Rubin, Stars and Stripes, Strictly for Kicks, The Glass Web, The Seven Year Itch, Twentieth Century Fox

Kathleen Hughes, star of It Came From Outer Space, has died aged 96. As well as playing the ‘bad girl’ in cult movies and appearing on numerous TV shows, she was married to River of No Return producer Stanley Rubin for sixty years, and befriended many stars from Hollywood’s golden age, including Marilyn Monroe. Continue reading →

Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes

18 Thursday Jan 2024

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

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42nd Street, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Alice Faye, Bernard F. Dick, Betty Grable, Broadway, Carousel, Darryl F. Zanuck, Down Boy, Fred Karger, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, George Cukor, How to Be Very Very Popular, How to Marry a Millionaire, Howard Hawks, Irving Berlin, Jane Russell, Jayne Mansfield, June Haver, Ladies of the Chorus, Let's Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Musicals, Orson Welles, Richard Zanuck, River of No Return, Sheree North, Shirley Temple, Something's Got To Give, Sonja Henie, The Girl Can't Help It, The Jazz Singer, There's No Business Like Show Business, Twentieth Century Fox, Vivian Blaine, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter

Bernard F. Dick, a professor of English and communication at Fairleigh-Dickson University in New Jersey, has published many titles on the classical era of Hollywood film-making, covering a wide range of figures like producers Harry Cohn and Hal B. Wallis; directors Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Billy Wilder; actresses Claudette Colbert and Rosalind Russell; and the blacklisted Hollywood Ten. In his 2018 book, That Was Entertainment, Dick hailed the MGM musical as the genre’s ‘Gold Standard,’ reeling off a list of the studio’s all-time greats from The Wizard of Oz to Singin’ in the Rain. Continue reading →

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe

24 Wednesday Aug 2022

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Al Rosen, Angie Novello, Anthony Summers, Arthur James, Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Billy Woodfield, Bobby Kennedy, Conspiracy Theories, Danny Greenson, Documentaries, Documentary, Dr Ralph Greenson, Emma Cooper, Eunice Murray, Fred Otash, George Cukor, Gladys Whitten, Gloria Romanoff, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, Harry Hall, Henry Rosenfeld, Hildi Greenson, Jane Russell, Jeanne Martin, Jim Doyle, Joan Greenson, Joe DiMaggio, John Danoff, John F. Kennedy, John Huston, John Sherlock, Johnny Hyde, Juliet Roswell, Ken Hunter, Marilyn Monroe, Milton Greene, Natalie Trundy, Netflix, Peggy Feury, Reed Wilson, Robert F. Kennedy, Robin Thorne, Say Goodbye to the President, Sydney Guilaroff, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe, Walter Schaefer

“Oh, I’d like to ask you – how do you go about writing a life story? Because the true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things. If you ever get any of those things you want to ask, I’ll tell you. All those things come from the truth, you know? Because otherwise, it’s hard to know where to start if you don’t start with the truth.” – Marilyn Monroe Continue reading →

2021: A Year in Film and TV

23 Thursday Dec 2021

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A Year in Films and TV, Alexandre Rockwell, Barry Jenkins, Billie Holiday, Bloody Nose Empty Pockets, Chase Dillon, Chloe Zhao, Colson Whitehead, David Simon, Denmark, Diana Dors, Docudrama, HBO, I Never Cry, Jane Russell, Jeanette Nordahl, Joel Edgerton, John Garfield, Lana Rockwell, Marilyn Monroe, Melina León, Nella Larsen, Passing, Perry Mason, Peru, Piotr Domalewski, Rebecca Hall, Robert Machoian, Ross Brothers, Ruth Negga, Sandra Guldberg Kampp, Song Without A Name, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Sweet Thing, The Killing of Two Lovers, The Plot Against America, The Roads Not Taken, The Underground Railroad, Thuso Mbedu, Wildland, Will Patton, Zoe Kazan, Zofia Stafiej

After Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins triumphs again with his serial adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s historical fantasy, The Underground Railroad. As fugitive Cora, actress Thuso Mbedu is a guiding light, with able support from Joel Edgerton and Chase Dillon as her relentless pursuers. This small-screen masterwork is the cinematic event of the year. Continue reading →

‘A Girl’s Best Friend’: Jane Russell 1921-2011

07 Monday Mar 2011

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Adoption, Bob Hope, Bob Waterfield, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hughes, Jane Russell, Jim Dougherty, Marilyn Monroe, Max Reinhardt, Robert Mitchum, Santa Maria, The Paleface, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, Van Nuys High School

Jane Russell, one of Hollywood’s great sex symbols, and star of such films as The Outlaw, The Paleface, His Kind of Woman and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, has died aged 89 at her home in California’s Santa Maria Valley, of a respiratory illness. Continue reading →

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