Atomic Blondes: Marilyn and Kathleen Hughes

21 Sunday Sep 2025

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3D, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Barbara Rush, Censorship, Cinemascope, Cleo Moore, Diana Herbert, F. Hugh Herbert, Film Noir, Hollywood Museum, Howard Hughes, It Came From Outer Space, Jane Russell, Kathleen Hughes, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Remembered, River of No Return, Rock Hudson, Rory Calhoun, Science Fiction, Stanley Rubin, Stars and Stripes, Strictly for Kicks, The Glass Web, The Seven Year Itch, Twentieth Century Fox

Kathleen Hughes, star of It Came From Outer Space, has died aged 96. As well as playing the ‘bad girl’ in cult movies and appearing on numerous TV shows, she was married to River of No Return producer Stanley Rubin for sixty years, and befriended many stars from Hollywood’s golden age, including Marilyn Monroe. Continue reading →

Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes

18 Thursday Jan 2024

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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 →

Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances

16 Sunday May 2021

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“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 →

Hal Schaefer 1925-2012

02 Wednesday Jan 2013

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hal Schaefer, Irving Berlin, Jazz, Joe DiMaggio, Lionel Newman, Louella Parsons, Marilyn Monroe, Piano, River of No Return, There's No Business Like Show Business, Wrong Door Raid

My tribute to Hal Schaefer, the jazz pianist who died recently. This article can also be read at Immortal Marilyn. Continue reading →

John Vachon: A ‘Lost Look’ at Marilyn

31 Monday Jan 2011

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Banff, Brian Wallis, Canada, Cindy Sherman, Dover Publications, Great Depression, Immortal Marilyn, Jayne Mansfield, Joe DiMaggio, John Vachon, Look Magazine, Madonna, Marilyn August 1953: The Lost Look Photos, Marilyn Monroe, River of No Return, Stanley Rubin

Dover Publications is a US company, founded in 1941, that reissues classic literary works in value-priced, paperback editions. In 2010, Dover broadened their remit by publishing Marilyn, August 1953: The Lost Look Photos, a hardback, coffee-table book featuring John Vachon’s photographs of Marilyn Monroe in Canada, while filming ‘River of No Return’, most of which had never been seen before. It was released under their Calla Editions imprint, using paper from sustainable forests, and presented in landscape format. On the grey front cover, under the dust-jacket, is a silhouette of Monroe. Continue reading →

Tara Hanks

~ Author of 'The Mmm Girl' and 'Wicked Baby'

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Atomic Blondes: Marilyn and Kathleen Hughes

Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes

Marilyn Monroe: The Classic Performances

Hal Schaefer 1925-2012

John Vachon: A ‘Lost Look’ at Marilyn