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Kim Novak on Marilyn

The ‘ice-cool blonde’ immortalised in Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) discussed her long career with Liz Smith this week. Perhaps inevitably, the conversation turned to another screen goddess of the fifties – Marilyn Monroe… I ask this ultimate survivor – the blonde who got away … Continue reading


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Buddy Greco on the ‘Last Weekend’

Singer Buddy Greco has spoken to the UK’s Daily Mail about meeting Marilyn Monroe at Frank Sinatra’s Cal-Neva Lodge on Lake Tahoe, just a week before her death. This so-called ‘last weekend’ (actually, Marilyn died on the following weekend) remains … Continue reading


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