09 Thursday Sep 2021
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Arthur Miller, Bus Stop, Colin Clark, Daily Mirror, Donald Zec, Let's Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, Niagara, The Mirror, The Prince And The Showgirl
Donald Zec, the British journalist who covered show-business for the Daily Mirror over four decades, has died at the grand old age of 102. Continue reading
16 Sunday May 2021
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Arthur Miller, As Young As You Feel, Billy Wilder, Bus Stop, Chris Wade, Clash By Night, Don't Bother To Knock, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, John Huston, Ladies of the Chorus, Laurence Olivier, Love Happy, Love Nest, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances, Monkey Business, Niagara, River of No Return, Scenes Magazine, Some Like It Hot, Sophia Loren, The Asphalt Jungle, The Countess From Hong Kong, The Misfits, The Prince And The Showgirl, The Seven Year Itch
“My God, I think there have been more books on Marilyn Monroe than on World War II, and there’s a great similarity.”
So said Billy Wilder, who made two classic films with Monroe – and although the great director was prone to exaggerate, he had the battle scars to prove his point. Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances is the latest in an ongoing series from the prolific Chris Wade – a musician and filmmaker in his own right, with an admirable DIY ethic – whose past subjects include Marlene Dietrich, Sophia Loren and Madonna. Continue reading
04 Sunday Aug 2019
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All About Eve, Amanda Konkle, Audrey Hepburn, Billy Wilder, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bus Stop, Clash By Night, Don't Bother To Knock, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, George Axelrod, How to Marry a Millionaire, Jack Cole, Jayne Mansfield, Kim Stanley, Let's Make Love, Love Happy, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, Method Acting, Monkey Business, Niagara, O. Henry's Full House, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe, Some Like It Hot, The Asphalt Jungle, The Misfits, The Prince And The Showgirl, The Seven Year Itch, We're Not Married
In 1954, Marilyn Monroe was rehearsing ‘Do It Again’ as part of her show for U.S. troops in Korea, when the officer in charge of her tour deemed the Gershwin standard “too suggestive,” and insisted she change the title to ‘Kiss Me Again.’ “People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of as a person,” she remarked in her memoir, My Story. “They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts.” Her comment inspired the title (and epigraph) for a new book, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe by Amanda Konkle, assistant professor of literature and film studies at Georgia Southern University. Continue reading
16 Monday May 2011
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Arline Hunter, Documentaries, Don't Bother To Knock, Dr Ralph Greenson, George Belmont, John Miner, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn: The Last Sessions, Michel Schneider, Niagara, Patrick Jeudy
Marilyn: The Last Sessions is a documentary made by Patrick Jeudy in 2008, based on a 2006 novel by Michel Schneider. Continue reading
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