Monthly Archives: September 2010

‘I Was Marilyn Monroe’s Doctor’

Posted on September 21, 2010 by marina72

During the days immediately preceding her operation, I saw Marilyn two or three times daily. Often she would be sitting moodily as I entered, but as always she suddenly seemed cheered whenever anyone came to see her. Sometimes she would … Continue reading →


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Bernard of Hollywood Mirror

Posted on September 20, 2010 by marina72

Spotted by Fraser at TK Maxx, £14.99


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Kevin McCarthy 1914-2010

Posted on September 20, 2010 by marina72

Read my tribute to this great character actor, who played Raymond Tabor in The Misfits, here


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‘Blonde’ Movie Delayed

Posted on September 19, 2010 by marina72

Andrew Dominik‘s big-screen adaptation of Blonde, previously said to start shooting in January 2011, may be postponed, after Casey Affleck confirmed he will be working with Dominik on a crime movie at that date, according to the Film School Rejects … Continue reading →


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Usherette to the Stars

Posted on September 16, 2010 by marina72

Marilyn with friends, comedian Milton Berle and singer Sammy Davis Jr, at the New York premiere of East of Eden (1955), a benefit for the Actor’s Studio. Featured in Up From the Vault, an exhibition from the Warner Bros Photo Lab … Continue reading →


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Elliott Erwitt in London

Posted on September 16, 2010 by marina72

“Marilyn Monroe, on the other hand, I was able to take pictures of in an intimate situation rather than a public one. This was in her hotel room in 1956*, when I was covering the film she was making at … Continue reading →


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Playing Cowboys and Indians with Marilyn

Posted on September 16, 2010 by marina72

Toni Westbrook-Van Cleave was only 6 at the time, but she still remembers Marilyn Monroe strapping on a toy gun belt and playing cowboys and Indians with her young brother during a break in filming of “The Misfits.” Like other residents of … Continue reading →


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Kay Winters Remembers ‘The Misfits’

Posted on September 15, 2010 by marina72

With Dayton’s 5oth anniversary tribute coming up this weekend, Kay Winters, now 90, remembers filming of The Misfits: Celebrating her 90th birthday soon, Kay recalls watching Hollywood’s favorite movie stars acting on Pike Street: “We watched it being filmed,” she … Continue reading →


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Marilyn and Mae: Great Film Comics

Posted on September 15, 2010 by marina72

‘Austerlitz notes that his biographical chapters are intended to create a conversation among comedy’s most influential practitioners. Arranged in rough chronological order, the effect is cumulative. Mae West’s brazen sexuality primps the pillow for Marilyn Monroe’s bombshell self-awareness; unlikely bedfellows … Continue reading →


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Isabel Keating Voices ‘Fragments’ CD

Posted on September 15, 2010 by marina72

In mid-October, Farrar Straus & Giroux will bring out a book called Fragments – purported to be a work of Marilyn Monroe’s writings, poems, notes, letters from her personal archive. Isabel Keating did the audio voice of Marilyn for the Macmillan Audio version of … Continue reading →


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