Tag Archives: Marilyn Monroe

Some Like It Not: Marilyn Vs. Tony Curtis

20 Sunday Dec 2009

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Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis are indelibly linked in the public consciousness for two main reasons: firstly, they co-starred in the comedy classic, Some Like It Hot (1959); and secondly, because when asked what kissing Marilyn was like, Curtis allegedly replied, ‘Like kissing Hitler.’ Continue reading →

Marilyn and ‘Baby Doll’

04 Friday Dec 2009

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This article can also be read on the Immortal Marilyn website

American Child-Woman: Marilyn Monroe and Baby Doll

‘In her movies,’ Marie Clayton wrote in Unseen Archives, her 2005 pictorial biography of Marilyn Monroe, ‘she projected a unique and fascinating persona — a child-woman who was both innocent and full of sexuality, someone men desired, but women found unthreatening. In real life,’ Clayton adds, ‘she was a beautiful and complex woman with deep insecurities, who just wanted to be loved.’ Continue reading →

Penny McGuiggan

18 Wednesday Nov 2009

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Sweet Sue's Band

'Some Like It Hot', 1959

Penny McGuiggan, a trumpeter and actress who appeared in Billy Wilder’s classic 1959 gangster spoof, Some Like It Hot, has died. Her (then uncredited) role was as a member of Sweet Sue’s Society Syncopators, an all-girl jazz band headed by conductor Sweet Sue (Joan Shawlee), singer Sugar Kane (Marilyn Monroe), and their hapless, bespectacled male manager, Bienstock (Dave Barry.) Continue reading →