03 Thursday Mar 2011
Posted in Film
In honour of Jean Harlow, the original blonde bombshell, turning 100 on Thursday, March 3, I am participating in a Blogathon led by Kitty Packard Pictorial.
This article, comparing Marilyn Monroe to her idol, Harlow, was originally published at Immortal Marilyn in 2009. Continue reading
26 Saturday Feb 2011
Posted in Art and Photography, Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction
Two steel filing cabinets, removed from Marilyn Monroe’s home in the days following her death in 1962, have become part of the paraphernalia surrounding her legend. Frequently mentioned in biographies, the cabinets became as symbolic as Marilyn’s white piano or the fluffy tiger found on her lawn by police. According to whom you read, the files held the key to Monroe’s inner soul or the truth about her untimely demise. Continue reading
21 Monday Feb 2011
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Television
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Jackie or Marilyn, Jacqueline Kennedy, Mad Men, Maidenform, Marilyn Monroe, Megan Hess, Pamela Keogh
‘Are you a Jackie or a Marilyn?’ is the question posed in ‘Maidenform’, Season 2, Episode 6 of AMC’s Mad Men. First broadcast in 2008, and set in 1961, the storyline concerns on a proposed advertising campaign for Playtex brassieres. On a drunken night out, the ad-men divide the female characters into two categories: ‘Jackies’ after America’s First Lady, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (later Onassis); and ‘Marilyns’, after Marilyn Monroe. This episode was the inspiration behind Pamela Keogh’s new book, Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Timeless Lessons on Love, Power and Style. Keogh has previously covered other icons of the past, including Elvis Presley and Audrey Hepburn. She has also written about Kennedy in Jackie Style (2001), but this is her first full-length work on Monroe. Continue reading
05 Saturday Feb 2011
Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals, Updates
≈ Comments Off on ‘Fragments’ Review Goes to Print
I’m a little late in posting this. My review of Fragments, last year’s collection of Marilyn Monroe’s personal writing (which you can also read here), has been published in the December 2010 issue of Mad About Marilyn magazine.
It is an outstanding edition, also featuring an article comparing Marilyn with her peer, actress Kim Stanley, who played Cherie in the original Broadway production of Bus Stop, and a character based on MM in the 1957 movie, The Goddess; and a fascinating interview with Marilyn herself from 1954, in which she lists her most-admired men (including then-husband Joe DiMaggio, and future beau, Arthur Miller.)
As always, if you would like to join the Mad About Marilyn Fan Club, please email Emma: emmadowning@blueyonder.co.uk
31 Monday Jan 2011
Posted 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
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