07 Monday Mar 2011
Posted in Film, Marilyn Monroe
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Adoption, Bob Hope, Bob Waterfield, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hughes, Jane Russell, Jim Dougherty, Marilyn Monroe, Max Reinhardt, Robert Mitchum, Santa Maria, The Paleface, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, Van Nuys High School
Jane Russell, one of Hollywood’s great sex symbols, and star of such films as The Outlaw, The Paleface, His Kind of Woman and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, has died aged 89 at her home in California’s Santa Maria Valley, of a respiratory illness. Continue reading
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
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