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To Save and Project: Jeanne Eagels at MoMA

19 Friday Jan 2018

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The World and the Woman, the 1916 silent film starring Jeanne Eagels, will be screened today – preceded by a fragment from an early Louise Brooks comedy – at 4:30 pm in New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as part of their ‘To Save and Project‘ series, curated by Dave Kehr and now in its fifteenth season, as Daniel Eagan reports for Film Journal. (And thanks to the Thanhouser Studio restoration project, you can also watch it here.) Continue reading →

Styling Marilyn: Kenneth Battelle 1927-2013

13 Thursday Jun 2013

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Marilyn Monroe, styled by Kenneth for her appearance at the JFK birthday gala in 1962

Marilyn Monroe, styled by Kenneth for her appearance at the JFK birthday gala in 1962

Kenneth Battelle, who was dubbed ‘hairdresser to the stars’ during the 1950s, died at home in Wappinger Falls, New York, on May 12th,  2013. Continue reading →

Marilyn Monroe: NYC, 1955

01 Saturday Jun 2013

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In honour of what would be Marilyn Monroe’s 87th birthday, I explore the story behind a remarkable home movie – filmed by a teenage fan, and retrieved by chance almost fifty years later. (This article can also be read via Immortal Marilyn.) Continue reading →

Mary Ann Lynch at the ‘Marilyn & Me’ Launch

11 Monday Jun 2012

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Photographer and artist Mary Ann Lynch, who has been capturing offbeat Marilyn sightings worldwide since 1992, attended the recent launch of Larry Schiller’s Marilyn & Me : A Memoir in Words and Photographs, at New York’s Steven Kasher Gallery.

Here are some of Mary Ann’s exclusive images, with personal commentary, taken during the event.

We can also look forward to hearing more from Mary Ann Lynch, who promises: “There’ll be more to come on Lawrence Schiller and his career extraordinaire, epitomized by his tribute to Marilyn, the story of their unexpected, unlikely professional relationship during her last two tumultuous years. It was a relationship that would change both their lives at the time…and his forever.”

Mary Ann Lynch

Photographs from Lawrence Schiller’s “Marilyn & Me”

opening receptions, May 30 and 31, 2012

Steven Kasher Gallery

521 W. 23rd Street, NYC.

The show runs through June 30, 2012.

Schiller’s extraordinary color poolside photograph of Marilyn in June 1962, on the set of “Something’s Got To Give,” her last and unfinished movie. Marilyn died August 5, 1962. In 2011 Schiller decided to undertake this ambitious project, a memoir in words and photographs, to appear during the 50th anniversary of her passing. He succeeded with class and gusto, bringing out two separate versions of the memoir and mounting a photographic exhibition moving about Europe and the United States.  Continue reading →