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‘My Maril’: Terry Karger Remembers Marilyn

26 Saturday Nov 2022

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

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Ann Karger, Conspiracy Theories, Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend, Do It Again, Frank Sinatra, Fred Karger, How Wrong Can I Be, Jacqui Warren Rigoni, Jane Wyman, Jay Margolis, Joe DiMaggio, Joe Schenck, John F. Kennedy, Johnny Hyde, Johnny Warren, Ladies of the Chorus, Love Happy, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Karger, Michael Reagan, My Maril, Natasha Lytess, Patti Sacks Karger, Robert F. Kennedy, Terry Karger

My Maril: Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Hollywood, and Me is a new memoir by Terry Karger, daughter of Fred Karger, a composer, musician and bandleader who dated Marilyn in the late 1940s. Terry was Fred’s daughter from his first marriage. Marilyn remained close to the Kargers – especially Fred’s mother Ann and sister Mary – long after their relationship ended.  Continue reading →

Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances

16 Sunday May 2021

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“My God, I think there have been more books on Marilyn Monroe than on World War II, and there’s a great similarity.”

So said Billy Wilder, who made two classic films with Monroe – and although the great director was prone to exaggerate, he had the battle scars to prove his point. Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances is the latest in an ongoing series from the prolific Chris Wade – a musician and filmmaker in his own right, with an admirable DIY ethic – whose past subjects include Marlene Dietrich, Sophia Loren and Madonna. Continue reading →

Some Kind Of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe

04 Sunday Aug 2019

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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’s Monsters

30 Tuesday Apr 2019

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

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Marilyn Monroe has long been an inspiration to artists and writers. Among the many books devoted to her life and image are a number of comics and graphic novels. Kathryn Hyatt’s Marilyn: The Story of a Woman (1996) and Dana Gachman’s recent contribution to the Tribute series both opt for fairly conventional, if sympathetic narratives. It is from outside the USA that more imaginative retellings have emerged, such as Sergio Toppi’s 16-page comic, plus two full-length books: Jean-Francois Charles’ Shooting Star (2006) and Jose Correa’s Dreams of a Butterfly (2012.)

Tommy Redolfi’s Holy Wood was first published in France in 2016, and is now available in English as Marilyn’s Monsters, published by Life Drawn, a literary imprint from comic book publisher Humanoids. The French-born Redolfi now lives in Los Angeles, and has made several films as well as other graphic novels, including a 2007 tome about one of Marilyn’s idols, Mae West. Marilyn’s Monsters comes with an endorsement from cult filmmaker David Cronenberg: “A brilliant, hallucinatory meditation on the phenomenon of Marilyn Monroe. It will alter your understanding of both Hollywood and Marilyn.” Continue reading →

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