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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
Posted in Addresses and Locations, Friends, Memories & Anecdotes, Relationships
Tagged Amagansett, Andre de Dienes, Arthur Miller, Doctor's Hospital, Dr Hilliard Dubrow, Ectopic Pregnancy, Eve Arnold, Fire Island, Hill House, Jeffrey Potter, Lee Strasberg, Long Island, Marilyn Monroe, Miscarriage, Norman Rosten, Port Jefferson, Sam Shaw, Stony Hill Farm, Tobey Beach
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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
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
Posted in Friends, Memories & Anecdotes
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandburg, Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Poetry, Timesweep
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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
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
Posted in Friends, Health, Music, Personal Life, Relationships, Writing
Tagged Arthur Miller, Dr Hohenberg, Dreams, Fragments, Hedda Rosten, Hospital, Lee Strasberg, Marilyn Monroe, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Milton Greene, Norman Rosten, Psychoanalysis, St Vincent, Strange Mercy, Surgeon, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
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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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Thanks to Marijane at Marilyn Monroe Collectors
‘A Girl’s Best Friend’: Jane Russell 1921-2011
Read my tribute to the late, great Jane Russell, over here
Posted in Friends, Memories & Anecdotes, Movies
Tagged Adoption, Clash by Night, Diamonds ae a Girl's Best Friend, Do It Again, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hughes, James Haspiel, Jane Russell, jim dougherty, Marilyn Monroe, Max Reinhardt, Natasha Lytess, Nicholas Ray, norma jeane, North Doheny Drive, The Revolt of Mamie Stover, Thomas Lane, Tommy Noonan
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