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Tag Archives: Twentieth Century Fox

Atomic Blondes: Marilyn and Kathleen Hughes

21 Sunday Sep 2025

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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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 →

Jay Kanter: Agent to Marlon, Marilyn and More

24 Friday Jan 2025

Posted by marina72 in Film, Marilyn Monroe

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Arthur Miller, Arthur P. Jacobs, Beverly Glen, Billy Wilder, Can-Can, East of Eden, Frank Sinatra, Gareth Wigan, Grace Kelly, Jay Kanter, Joe DiMaggio, Judy Balaban, Laurence Olivier, Lew Wasserman, Madison Square Garden, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe Productions, Marlon Brando, MCA, Milton Greene, Sammy Davis Jr., Some Came Running, Terence Rattigan, The Apartment, The Prince And The Showgirl, The Rose Tattoo, The Sound and the Fury, Twentieth Century Fox, USS Bennington, Walter Wanger, William Faulkner

Jay Kanter, the veteran Hollywood agent turned producer, died aged 97 on August 6, 2024. Continue reading →

Marie Irvine: Marilyn’s New York Make-Up Artist

27 Monday May 2024

Posted by marina72 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 →

Children of Hollywood: Marilyn and Diana Herbert

25 Thursday Apr 2024

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'I Never Took a Lesson in My Life', Arthur Miller, Colleen Townsend, Diana Herbert, Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe, Driving Miss Daisy, Endometriosis, F. Hugh Herbert, Helena Sorrell, House Un-American Activities Committee, Ian Ayres, John Gilmore, Johnny Hyde, Let's Make It Legal, Lon McCallister, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Remembered, Natalie Wood, Robert Karnes, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, Strictly for Kicks, Summer Lightning, Twentieth Century Fox, Walter Winchell, Warrensburg

Actress Diana Herbert, who met Marilyn Monroe on the set of her first movie, died aged 95 in Los Angeles on May 3, 2023. Continue reading →

Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes

18 Thursday Jan 2024

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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 →

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