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‘The Misfits’ at the BFI

04 Saturday Jul 2015

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Arthur Miller, BFI, British Film Institute, Clark Gable, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, The Misfits

the-misfits-600x451The Misfits (1961) was reissued in the UK and Ireland in June, and also headlined a major retrospective, ‘Marilyn’, at the British Film Institute on London’s Southbank. The month-long season featured all but one of the sixteen films Marilyn Monroe made from 1952-62, of which The Misfits would be her last. Continue reading →

The Last Misfit: Eli Wallach 1915-2014

04 Friday Jul 2014

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Actors Studio, Arthur Miller, Baby Doll, Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, Elia Kazan, Henry Hathaway, Lawrence Schiller, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Method Acting, Montgomery Clift, Norman Mailer, Ralph Roberts, The Misfits

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‘The Misfits’ (1961)

This article can also be read at Immortal Marilyn.

The Last Misfit: Eli Wallach 1915-2014

Eli Herschel Wallach was born at Union Street, in Brooklyn’s Red Hook district, in December 1915. One of four children, he grew up above Bertha’s candy store, managed by his Polish immigrant parents – one of the few Jewish businesses in a predominantly Italian neighbourhood. Two months previously, Arthur Miller had been born in Harlem; while Elia Kazan, born in Istanbul in 1909, was living in New York with his Greek Orthodox family. Continue reading →

Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011

23 Wednesday Mar 2011

Posted by marina72 in Film

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AIDS, AmFAR, Bert Stern, Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Max Lerner, Michael Jackson, Mike Todd, Montgomery Clift, Richard Burton, Truman Capote

In honour of the glorious Elizabeth Taylor, who passed away today, I’m posting an updated version of my tribute, Marilyn, Elizabeth and Cleopatra, first published on Immortal Marilyn in 2009. Continue reading →

‘That Orphan Charm’: Marilyn and Kevin McCarthy

20 Monday Sep 2010

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Arthur Miller, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Joe Dante, Kevin McCarthy, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, The Misfits, Twilight Zone

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Actor Kevin McCarthy, who played a small but pivotal role in Marilyn Monroe’s last movie, died of pneumonia at Cape Cod Hospital, Hyannis, Massachusetts, on September 11, 2010, aged 96. Continue reading →

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