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Darkness Into Light: Ava Gardner and Marilyn

06 Tuesday Mar 2012

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Frank Sinatra, George Cukor, Howard Hughes, Jack Cardiff, Joe Mankiewicz, John F. Kennedy, John Huston, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Rooney

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Milton Greene, 1953

A brunette and a blonde, born four years apart and raised in Depression era America: both found fame in post-war Hollywood, where their mythic beauty inspired directors, lovers and poets.  Continue reading →

‘Black Dahlia and White Rose’

27 Monday Jun 2011

Posted by marina72 in Books, Fiction, History, Marilyn Monroe

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Black Dahlia, Crime Fiction, E-Books, Joyce Carol Oates, L.A. Noire, Marilyn Monroe

L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories

L.A. Noire is styled like a detective movie of the 1940s. Aesthetically, it pays homage to film noir, while adapting new technologies like real-time action and multiple camera angles. Set in post-war Los Angeles, it also features a jazz soundtrack. Publication of an e-book of eight short stories by some of the world’s leading writers – in genres ranging from literary to pulp fiction – was announced in May. Each piece is set in 1947, the same year that casino owner Bugsy Siegel  and Elizabeth Short (‘The Black Dahlia’) were murdered. Continue reading →

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