Monthly Archives: November 2010

Liz Smith on Playboy, Oates and ‘Blonde’

‘Ms. Oates wrote a massive semi-fiction about Marilyn some years back, titled “Blonde,” which is now being made into a film with Naomi Watts. The author (like Norman Mailer before her) didn’t see the harm in mixing truth and illusion, the better … Continue reading


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MM Lookalike Opens ‘So Yesterday’

Laura Nixon, aka ‘Marilyn Slightly’, sings at the launch of Brighton’s new vintage boutique, So Yesterday, on Friday November 12. More info here


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Marilyn and Simone in Scotland

While filming Let’s Make Love in 1960, Marilyn Monroe lived with husband Arthur Miller in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Monroe’s co-star, Yves Montand, stayed next door with his wife, the French actress Simone Signoret. The Millers and … Continue reading


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Marilyn Photo-Mosaic

By artist Robert Silvers, using images by Milton H. Greene. More info at Marilyn Monroe Collection Blog


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Simone Signoret in the ‘Mirror’

This is one of three articles about Marilyn, printed in the Los Angeles Mirror, fifty years ago today. The other two clippings were extracts from Maurice Zolotow‘s just-published Marilyn Monroe, the first full-scale biography of the star and still considered … Continue reading


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Marilyn and Clifford Odets

One of Marilyn Monroe’s strongest early film roles was as Peggy, the feisty cannery worker in Clash by Night (1952), based on a play by Clifford Odets (although her character was not in the original script.) Marilyn knew Odets quite … Continue reading


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The Kennedy Detail

Former FBI agent Gerald Blaine, one of the security staff who witnessed the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, is the author of a new book, The Kennedy Detail, which is also the title of an upcoming Discovery … Continue reading


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‘Marilyn Times Five’

Bruce Conner was an avant-garde artist, and his work has been celebrated in a new documentary, Bruce Conner: The Art of Montage. The film includes a short clip called ‘Marilyn Times Five’, which purportedly shows a semi-naked Monroe, fondling – … Continue reading


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Internet Quotes: ‘Consider the Source’

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my … Continue reading


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Cooking With Marilyn

Among other writings, Fragments includes several recipes, and the New York Times suggests Marilyn’s stuffing may be perfect for Thanksgiving: The image of a bombshell cooking her way to nirvana may seem old-hat now, thanks to Nigella, Giada, Padma and … Continue reading


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