Tag Archives: Singing

Movies, Music and Marilyn

Musician and blogger Aylon Ewing looks at some of Marilyn’s musical highlights, from ‘That Old Black Magic’ to ‘My Heart Belongs to Daddy’.


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Gershwin Does it Again

A new recording of George Gershwin’s ‘innocently sensuous’ 1922 song, ‘Do it Again’, as sung by Sophie Milman, makes NPR’s list of The Top 5 Jazz Vocal Performances of 2011. Perhaps the most famous – or notorious – version of … Continue reading


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Marilyn’s Directors: Howard Hawks

Another extract from Peter Bogdanovich’s essay on Marilyn, published in Who the Hell’s In It? (2004) “Monroe was frightened to come on the stage – she had such an inferiority complex – and I felt sorry for her. I’ve seen … Continue reading


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