Tag Archives: 1950s

Tribute to a Misfit

Film critic Mick LaSalle pays tribute to Marilyn in the San Francisco Chronicle. “Marilyn Monroe has been dead all my life, or at least all my conscious life. Yet even so, the idea still doesn’t sit right. ‘Marilyn Monroe is dead.’ … Continue reading


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‘Blondes’ and the Fifties

Kathleen Strecker reviews Gentlemen Prefer Blondes for Oregon’s Coast Review, and ponders what this seemingly escapist comedy might reveal about the time in which it was made: “The film opens with a cabaret number by Monroe and Jane Russell, clad in red … Continue reading


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