Category Archives: Friends

Marilyn on Long Island

Newsday looks backs on Marilyn’s many trips to Long Island, from iconic photo shoots with Andre De Dienes, Eve Arnold and Sam Shaw, to private getaways with husband Arthur Miller. “After Monroe became involved with the married Miller in 1955, … Continue reading


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Sandra Howard Remembers Marilyn

Sandra Howard – a former model, now wife of Tory politician Michael Howard – has spoken to the Daily Mail about meeting Marilyn at Frank Sinatra’s Beverly Hills home in 1961. (Sandra and her first husband, jazz pianist Robin Douglas-Home, … Continue reading


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Hollywood Progressives: Marilyn and Carl Sandburg

  Hollywood Progressive takes a look at Carl Sandburg’s love of silent movies, and his friendship with Marilyn, with whom he shared a love of Lincoln, Chaplin and poetry: ‘He found her to be down-to-earth and genuine. He said that … Continue reading


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Inside the Actor’s Studio

In his 2004 collection of essays on movie actors, Who the Hell’s In It?, director Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show) recalled his sole encounter with Marilyn: “Only one time was I in Marilyn Monroe’s presence, and she never would … Continue reading


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St Vincent Inspired by Marilyn’s Writing

  St Vincent – aka musician Annie Erin Clark – performed ‘Surgeon’, a song inspired by Marilyn Monroe’s writings, now available as a free download from her forthcoming album, Strange Mercy, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Thursday, reports … Continue reading


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Marilyn and Shelley Winters

Actress Shelley Winters, pictured here with Marilyn and Robert Mitchum in Canada, 1953, wrote about her friendship with Marilyn in her two volumes of autobiography. Over at HiLobrow today, Mimi Lipson compares their ultimately very different careers: “She taught her roommate … Continue reading


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Pictures of the Week

Thanks to Marijane at Marilyn Monroe Collectors  


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‘A Girl’s Best Friend’: Jane Russell 1921-2011

Read my tribute to the late, great Jane Russell, over here


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