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Tag Archives: Marilyn Monroe

Gone Ladies: Marilyn and Pauline Boty

13 Tuesday Feb 2024

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals, Poetry

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At left, Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon, 1959; and at right, Pauline Boty by John Aston, 1962

Pauline Boty was an English pop artist who created three paintings of Marilyn before her death from cancer, aged 28, in 1966. Although neglected for many years, Boty’s work is now being rediscovered – and in March, one of her Marilyn portraits will go under the hammer at Christie’s, as Joe Dziemianowicz reports for Barron’s Magazine. Continue reading →

Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes

18 Thursday Jan 2024

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

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Bernard F. Dick, a professor of English and communication at Fairleigh-Dickson University in New Jersey, has published many titles on the classical era of Hollywood film-making, covering a wide range of figures like producers Harry Cohn and Hal B. Wallis; directors Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Billy Wilder; actresses Claudette Colbert and Rosalind Russell; and the blacklisted Hollywood Ten. In his 2018 book, That Was Entertainment, Dick hailed the MGM musical as the genre’s ‘Gold Standard,’ reeling off a list of the studio’s all-time greats from The Wizard of Oz to Singin’ in the Rain. Continue reading →

2023: A Year in Film

02 Tuesday Jan 2024

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Documentaries, Film, Non-Fiction, Updates

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Adapted from David Grann’s history of the Osage murders, Killers of the Flower Moon was – for me at least – the cinematic event of 2023. With authoritative performances from Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and a luminous Lily Gladstone, plus the painterly cinematography of Jack Fisk and a subtly insistent final score from the late Robbie Robertson, Killers channels the spirit of the first revisionist Westerns. While perhaps lacking the flash of this year’s Oscar rivals (Oppenheimer, Poor Things), this is a masterclass in neo-classical filmmaking from Martin Scorsese – and a tough-minded reckoning with America’s brutal origins. Continue reading →

‘Man, Woman and Sin’ and ‘A View From the Bridge’ at Cinecon

12 Tuesday Sep 2023

Posted by marina72 in Film, Jeanne Eagels, Marilyn Monroe, Theatre

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Man, Woman and Sin – the final silent film starring Jeanne Eagels, and her only Hollywood production – enjoyed a rare big-screen outing during the Labour Day weekend, as part of the 59th Cinecon Classic Film Festival at the historic Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo, California. Continue reading →

61 Years Ago: Retracing Marilyn’s Moment in Time

05 Saturday Aug 2023

Posted by marina72 in Anniversaries, Books, Documentaries, Marilyn Monroe, Television, Updates

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Marilyn Monroe died 61 years ago; after passing into eternal rest, her body was found in the early hours of August 5th, 1962. Continue reading →

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