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Walter Mirisch: ‘Some Like It Hot’ Producer Dies at 101

08 Wednesday Mar 2023

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Arthur Miller, Billy Wilder, Dick Patterson, Elmore Leonard, Fanfare der Liebe, Harold Mirisch, Herb Baker, Jack Lemmon, Joe Hyams, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe, Marvin Mirisch, NBC, Paula Strasberg, Sidney Poitier, Some Like It Hot, Steven Spielberg, The Mirisch Company, Tony Curtis, United Artists, Vic Damone, Walter Mirisch

Walter Mirisch, producer of Some Like It Hot, has died aged 101. Continue reading →

Stella Stevens: An Adventurous Blonde

19 Sunday Feb 2023

Posted by marina72 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 →

Zimbelism: Marilyn’s ‘Momento’ on 52nd and Lexington 

30 Monday Jan 2023

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George S. Zimbel, the photographer who documented the shooting of Marilyn Monroe’s most famous movie scene, has died aged 93.  Continue reading →

‘La Lollo’ in New York: When Gina Lollobrigida Met Marilyn

25 Wednesday Jan 2023

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Alberto Moravia, Beat the Devil, Cinecitta, Earl Wilson, Fidel Castro, Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Howard Hughes, Humphrey Bogart, Italy, Marilyn Monroe, Pope Francis, Rock Hudson, Sophia Loren, The Seven Year Itch, The Woman of Rome

Gina Lollobrigida, an icon of Italian cinema and one of the great post-war sex symbols, died aged 95 on January 16, 2023. Continue reading →

That Magic Click: Douglas Kirkland and Marilyn

19 Thursday Jan 2023

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Photo by Tim Mantoani

Douglas Morley Kirkland was born in 1934 in Toronto, and moved to the small town of Fort Erie, Ontario with his parents when he was three years old. His father, Morley, was a tailor who made and sold men’s suits from a store on Jervis Street, and his mother Evelyn kept the books.

“The first picture I took was with a Brownie box camera,” Douglas told American History magazine. “I was about seven or eight, and I was allowed to take a photo of my family standing at the front door on a very cold Christmas Day. It was a big deal to take a photo at that time because film wasn’t much available during the Second World War. There were eight exposures on that camera, and I had one opportunity to photograph my family. I pushed this box camera into my stomach to hold it very steady. So I heard that magic click; there it was for the first time. That is what has been pushing me ever since. And it’s taken me into worlds that I could never have imagined.” Continue reading →

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