15 Wednesday May 2024
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Actors Studio, Anna Strasberg, Arthur Miller, Authentic Brands Group, Christie’s, CMG Worldwide, Dr. Marianne Kris, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Moore, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Method Acting, Roger Richman, Scott Fortner, Susan Strasberg
Anna Strasberg, widow of Actors Studio founder Lee Strasberg and inheritor of Marilyn Monroe’s estate, died aged 84 on January 6, 2024. Continue reading
08 Friday Jun 2018
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A Man Chases a Girl (Until She Catches Him), After You Get What You Want (You Don't Want It), Brighton, Cinemascope, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Duke of York's Brighton, Ethel Merman, Heat Wave, Irving Berlin, Jacqueline Rose, Joe DiMaggio, Johnnie Ray, Lazy, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Picturehouse, Susan Strasberg, The Seven Year Itch, There's No Business Like Show Business, Travilla, Twentieth Century Fox, Walter Lang, You'd Be Surprised
On June 1st – exactly ninety-two years after Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in the charity ward of Los Angeles General Hospital – her 1954 movie, There’s No Business Like Show Business, was screened at the Duke of York’s Cinema in Brighton, and will be shown at selected Picturehouse venues throughout June. The first musical made in CinemaScope (a pioneering widescreen technology developed by Twentieth Century Fox to combat the threat of television), it was also one of the last Technicolour musicals made under the studio system model of Hollywood’s golden age. Continue reading
23 Thursday Sep 2010
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Arthur Miller, Clark Gable, Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Howard Hughes, James Bacon, Joan Crawford, Joe DiMaggio, Joe Schenck, John F. Kennedy, Jose Bolanos, Ladies of the Chorus, Let's Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, Milton Stein, Robert F. Kennedy, Some Like It Hot, Susan Strasberg, The Asphalt Jungle, The Misfits, Wrong Door Raid, Yves Montand
Marilyn Monroe at the Photoplay Awards, 1953
Born in Buffalo, New York in 1914, Bacon studied at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, from 1933-36, dropping out in his final year after his parents lost their home in a flood. He completed his journalism degree in 1943 at Syracuse University, and served in the Navy. Bacon’s career in Hollywood, writing a syndicated column for Associated Press, coincided with the rise of Marilyn Monroe and the final phase of Hollywood’s ‘Golden Era.’ Continue reading
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