Category Archives: Radio

Stern, Schiller: Audio Interview

Listen to this KPCC interview with photographer Bert Stern at the launch of his new, deluxe book for Taschen at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, where the 1962 session was shot. Larry Schiller, who also photographed Monroe in the … Continue reading


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Re-Reading ‘My Week With Marilyn’

Colin Clark’s two memoirs have been reissued in a single volume to tie in with today’s movie release. In a review for the Daily Mail, Tom Cox says that the first part (The Prince, the Showgirl and Me) as ‘delightfully … Continue reading


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Jerry Lewis and Marilyn

Marilyn appeared on Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis’s radio show in 1952. (The episode is included on The Marilyn Monroe Anthology.) MM is shown above with the comedy duo at the Redbook awards, later that day. For several years now, … Continue reading


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Isabel Keating Voices ‘Fragments’ CD

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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Mariella: ‘Blonde on Blonde’

Broadcaster and journalist Mariella Frostrup has told the Radio Times that after presenting the BBC Radio 2 series Blonde on Blonde in 2009 (profiling three iconic blondes, Doris Day, Diana Dors and Marilyn Monroe), made her realise how little the … Continue reading


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