Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962
As regular readers will know, ES Updates has brought you the latest news about Marilyn and her legacy since 2010. As of June 2020, this blog has a new name – and a new home. Thanks for your support and I hope you’ll join me over at The Marilyn Report.
Sincerely, Tara Hanks
If, like many of us, you’re waiting out coronavirus at home, Michelle Morgan’s The Little Book of Marilyn is an easy, uplifting read, with fan input, makeovers, craft tips and more – read my review here.
You can read my review of Arthur Miller – Writer, the intimate 2017 documentary made by his daughter Rebecca Miller, here.
My review of Amanda Konkle’s excellent book, Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe, is featured in the latest issue (#38) of UK fanzine Mad About Marilyn, alongside articles about Marilyn’s arduous promotional tour for the final Marx Brothers movie, Love Happy (1949); ‘A New Marilyn Comes Back’, first published by Movie Spotlight in 1956; and a profile of photographer Bruno Bernard, aka ‘Bernard of Hollywood’.
If you’d like to subscribe to Mad About Marilyn, please email Emma: [email protected]
You can read my review of Biographic: Marilyn, a new illustrated look at her life in facts and figures, over here.
You can read my tribute to Doris Day, who died yesterday aged 97, over here.
You can read my review of Tommy Redolfi’s graphic novel, Marilyn’s Monsters, here.
You can read my review of Charles Casillo’s Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon here.
You can read my review of Michelle Morgan’s new book, The Girl: Marilyn Monroe, The Seven Year Itch and the Birth of an Unlikely Feminist, here.
