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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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‘Should I Tell the Truth?’

The latest extract from Maurice Zolotow’s biography, first published in the Los Angeles Daily Mirror on this day in 1960, covers the filming of Clash by Night (1952) and the scandal of Marilyn’s nude calendar.


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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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Vanity Fair: Analysing Marilyn

page 146 Pardon me are you the janitors wife page 147 caught a Greyhound Bus from Monterey to Salinas. On the Bus I was the person woman with about sixty Italian fishermen and I’ve never met sixty such charming gentlemen—they … Continue reading


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Marilyn in Monterey

Photographed by Ernst Bachrach on location for Clash by Night (1952.) Thanks to Omar at Everlasting Star


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