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Cannes and the Magic of Marilyn

Peter Bradshaw, film critic at The Guardian, celebrates the face of this year’s Cannes Film Festival – MM. “I am perhaps eccentric in finding Monroe slightly less sexy than Jane Russell in Howard Hawks’s ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’. Russell’s performance is … Continue reading


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‘Monkey Business’ Reappraised

Film critic Peter Bradshaw, of The Guardian, thinks Howard Hawks’ Monkey Business (1952), featuring Marilyn as inept secretary Miss Laurel, is an ‘ace ape jape’: “It is part romp, part druggie-surrealist masterpiece, and a complete joy. ‘Monkey Business’ is undervalued … Continue reading


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