19 Sunday Feb 2023
Posted 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
17 Tuesday Dec 2019
Posted 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
16 Monday Sep 2019
Posted 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
03 Thursday Mar 2011
Posted in Film
In honour of Jean Harlow, the original blonde bombshell, turning 100 on Thursday, March 3, I am participating in a Blogathon led by Kitty Packard Pictorial.
This article, comparing Marilyn Monroe to her idol, Harlow, was originally published at Immortal Marilyn in 2009. Continue reading
10 Wednesday Jun 2009
Posted in Film, History, Marilyn Monroe, Updates
‘Jean Genies’ by Ken Martin
American Bombshells: Marilyn and Jean Harlow, my latest addition to the ‘Marilyn’s Heroes’ series, can now be read at Immortal Marilyn. While researching and writing the article, I was struck by the empathy Marilyn felt for Harlow and the string of coincidences and uncanny parallels between their lives.
Jean Harlow was the original ‘blonde bombshell’ and a gifted comedienne. Her films are quite hard to find but are worth tracking down on Amazon.com, and are regularly screened on TCM. For further reading, I can recommend David Stenn’s Bombshell (for his definitive text) and Eve Golden’s Platinum Girl (for the pictures.) And online, film historian Lisa Burks has created ‘The Platinum Page’, an excellent website and blog devoted to Harlow’s life and work.
In other news, I have decided to conduct a series of interviews with writers and other people who interest me. My first subject will be David Marshall, author of The DD Group and Life Among The Cannibals. So please do revisit soon or subscribe (see top of page) to keep up with future developments, and as always, thanks to my loyal readers for your support.
Tara Hanks 
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