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Cinema Revival: ‘The Letter’ in Columbus, Ohio

01 Friday Mar 2024

Posted by marina72 in Film, Jeanne Eagels

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Accent on Girls, Cinema Revival, Clara Bow, Columbus, David Stenn, Dorothy Arzner, Ina Ray Hutton, Jean Harlow, Jeanne Eagels, MGM Convention Reel, Ohio, Pre-Code, The Letter, Wexner Centre for the Arts

The first big-screen adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s The Letter is showing in a new 35mm restoration – from the sole surviving nitrate print – at 2:30 pm tomorrow, March 2, at the Wexner Centre for the Arts at Ohio State University in Columbus, as part of this year’s Cinema Revival. Continue reading →

‘Public, Private, Secret’: From Jackie to Marilyn – and Back Again

23 Sunday Jul 2023

Posted by marina72 in Books, History, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Politics

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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 →

Stella Stevens: An Adventurous Blonde

19 Sunday Feb 2023

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe, Television, Theatre

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Bus Stop, Dean Martin, Eli Wallach, Elvis Presley, Golden Globes, Jean Harlow, Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Peter Bogdanovich, Playboy, Sex Symbols, Stella Stevens, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The Blue Angel, The Nutty Professor, The Poseidon Adventure

Actress Stella Stevens died in Los Angeles on Friday, February 17th, 2023, aged 84. Continue reading →

2019: A Year In Film and TV

17 Tuesday Dec 2019

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Non-Fiction, Television

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3 Days in Quiberon, A Year in Films and TV, Albert Finney, Australia, Ava DuVernay, Black 47, Blindspotting, Derry Girls, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Hollywood Book Club, If Beale Street Could Talk, Ireland, James Baldwin, James L. Neibaur, Jean Harlow, Jennifer Kent, Joaquin Phoenix, Ken Loach, Letters From Hollywood, Lisa McGee, Marlon Brando, Martin Scorsese, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Patsy Kelly, Quentin Tarantino, Roddy Doyle, Romy Schneider, Rosie, Shane Meadows, Sharon Tate, Sorry We Missed You, Starring Red Wing!, Sue Lyon, Sunset, Susannah Grant, The Irishman, The Nightingale, The Sisters Brothers, The Virtues, Thelma Todd, Transit, Unbelievable, When They See Us, ZaSu Pitts

In 2019, we said goodbye to sixties icons Albert Finney and Sue Lyon, and remembered Sharon Tate… Continue reading →

‘The Best Way to Forget, Until You Find Something You Want to Remember’

16 Monday Sep 2019

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Jeanne Eagels

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'The Best Way to Forget Until You Find Something You Want to Remember', Amy Winehouse, Bette Davis, Christine Keeler, Cob Gallery, If You Don't Want My Peaches (You Better Stop Shaking the Tree), Jean Harlow, Jeanne Eagels, Kim Novak, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Nina Mae Fowler, Rita Hayworth, The Letter

Nina Mae Fowler is a British artist who trained at the University of Brighton, and lives in Norfolk. Her latest solo exhibition, If You Don’t Want My Peaches (You’d Better Stop Shaking the Tree), on display at London’s Cob Gallery until September 28, borrows its title from an Irving Berlin song, and draws heavily on the iconography of Hollywood’s golden age. I was delighted to find Jeanne Eagels among the subjects, as she is often neglected. This portrait shows Jeanne in her penultimate movie (and only surviving talkie), The Letter (1929.) Continue reading →

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