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Marilyn & Me: A Memoir in Words and Photographs

21 Thursday Jun 2012

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction

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Hugh Hefner, Joe DiMaggio, Larry Schiller, Lawrence Schiller, Let's Make Love, Liz Smith, Marilyn & Me, Marilyn Monroe, Pat Newcomb, Playboy, Something's Got To Give, Taschen

Lawrence Schiller was one of only three photographers granted access to the shooting of the much-vaunted ‘pool scene’ in Marilyn Monroe’s final, incomplete movie, Something’s Got to Give. Fifty years later, he has collected his pictures – including some never seen before – with a personal commentary, in a new, deluxe book, published by Taschen. Continue reading →

Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil

14 Monday Nov 2011

Posted by marina72 in Books, Marilyn Monroe

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Baseball, Jerome Charyn, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe

'Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil' by Jerome Charyn
Last November, Morris Engelberg – former lawyer and executor of Joe DiMaggio’s estate – objected to a new biography of the baseball legend, or more precisely, its cover – a photo of DiMaggio with his second wife, Marilyn Monroe, taken by John Vachon in 1953. Continue reading →

John Vachon: A ‘Lost Look’ at Marilyn

31 Monday Jan 2011

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Websites

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Banff, Brian Wallis, Canada, Cindy Sherman, Dover Publications, Great Depression, Immortal Marilyn, Jayne Mansfield, Joe DiMaggio, John Vachon, Look Magazine, Madonna, Marilyn August 1953: The Lost Look Photos, Marilyn Monroe, River of No Return, Stanley Rubin

Dover Publications is a US company, founded in 1941, that reissues classic literary works in value-priced, paperback editions.  In 2010,  Dover broadened their remit by publishing Marilyn, August 1953: The Lost Look Photos, a hardback, coffee-table book featuring John Vachon’s photographs of Marilyn Monroe in Canada, while filming ‘River of No Return’, most of which had never been seen before. It was released under their Calla Editions imprint, using paper from sustainable forests, and presented in landscape format. On the grey front cover, under the dust-jacket, is a silhouette of Monroe. Continue reading →

Dominic DiMaggio 1917-2009

10 Sunday May 2009

Posted by marina72 in History, Marilyn Monroe

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Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Dom DiMaggio, Joe DiMaggio, Marilyn Monroe

The DiMaggios, Boston, January 1955

The DiMaggios, Boston, January 1955

Dom DiMaggio, former centre fielder for the Boston Red Sox, has died aged 92. Known as the ‘little professor’ because of his bespectacled appearance and short, skinny build, Dom played major league baseball for ten seasons. Continue reading →

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