30 Tuesday Sep 2025
Posted in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe
≈ Comments Off on Angels of Pop: Marilyn and Rosalyn Drexler
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Arthur Miller, Clark Gable, Connecticut, Cornell Capa, Homage to Marilyn Monroe, Ira Slade, Kermit Miller, Mara Scherbatoff, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Pursued by Death, New York, Paris Match, Pop Art, Rosalyn Drexler, Roxbury, Sidney Janis Gallery, Something's Got To Give, The Misfits
Rosalyn Drexler, a pioneer of the Pop Art movement – and one of the first women to paint Marilyn Monroe – has died aged 98. Continue reading
27 Monday May 2024
Posted in Fashion and Beauty, Marilyn Monroe
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Arthur Miller, Cosmetics, Erin Parsons, Fabled Enchantresses, Happy Birthday Mr. President, Harry Belafonte, John F. Kennedy, Life Magazine, Make-Up, Marie Irvine, Marilyn Monroe, New York, Richard Avedon, Something's Got To Give, The Misfits, Twentieth Century Fox
Marie Irvine, who worked as a make-up artist to Marilyn Monroe in New York, died aged 99 in a Florida care facility on January 15, 2024. Continue reading
13 Tuesday Feb 2024
Posted in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals, Poetry
≈ Comments Off on Gone Ladies: Marilyn and Pauline Boty
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At left, Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon, 1959; and at right, Pauline Boty by John Aston, 1962
Pauline Boty was an English pop artist who created three paintings of Marilyn before her death from cancer, aged 28, in 1966. Although neglected for many years, Boty’s work is now being rediscovered – and in March, one of her Marilyn portraits will go under the hammer at Christie’s, as Joe Dziemianowicz reports for Barron’s Magazine. Continue reading
18 Thursday Jan 2024
Posted in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Music, Non-Fiction
≈ Comments Off on Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
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42nd Street, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Alice Faye, Bernard F. Dick, Betty Grable, Broadway, Carousel, Darryl F. Zanuck, Down Boy, Fred Karger, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, George Cukor, How to Be Very Very Popular, How to Marry a Millionaire, Howard Hawks, Irving Berlin, Jane Russell, Jayne Mansfield, June Haver, Ladies of the Chorus, Let's Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Musicals, Orson Welles, Richard Zanuck, River of No Return, Sheree North, Shirley Temple, Something's Got To Give, Sonja Henie, The Girl Can't Help It, The Jazz Singer, There's No Business Like Show Business, Twentieth Century Fox, Vivian Blaine, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter
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
01 Tuesday Jun 2021
Posted in Anniversaries, Art and Photography, Books, Brighton, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Updates
≈ Comments Off on At 95, Marilyn is Still in Bloom
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#Marilyn95, Brighton, Carl Perutz, Graffiti, Happy Birthday Marilyn, Hotel Del Coronado, Larry Schiller, Lawrence Schiller, Marilyn and Me, Marilyn Monroe, Public Art, Queensbury Mews, Some Like It Hot, Something's Got To Give, Street Art, Taschen, The Postman
Today, June 1st, marks what would be Marilyn’s 95th birthday. As the sun shines over Brighton for what seems like the first time since lockdown, this latest artwork from The Postman (based on a 1958 photo by Carl Perutz) has appeared in Queensbury Mews. Continue reading
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