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Some Kind Of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe

04 Sunday Aug 2019

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

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In 1954, Marilyn Monroe was rehearsing ‘Do It Again’ as part of her show for U.S. troops in Korea, when the officer in charge of her tour deemed the Gershwin standard “too suggestive,” and insisted she change the title to ‘Kiss Me Again.’ “People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of as a person,” she remarked in her memoir, My Story. “They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts.” Her comment inspired the title (and epigraph) for a new book, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe by Amanda Konkle, assistant professor of literature and film studies at Georgia Southern University. Continue reading →

Marilyn: A British Love Affair

05 Friday Oct 2012

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe

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‘Marilyn Monroe: A British Love Affair’ is a small display in Room 33 of London’s National Portrait Gallery, featuring photographs and vintage magazine covers related to The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), and other homegrown influences on Hollywood’s most iconic star. Continue reading →

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 →

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