Marilyn and the Hollywood Studio Club Women

First posted here on December 10, 2019 Film historian Cari Beauchamp, who last year wrote ‘Atomic Blonde‘, an article detailing Marilyn’s mysterious 1953 PSA for the US Military, has now contributed a definitive history of the all-female Hollywood Studio Club on the intersection of Lexington Avenue and Lodi Place, where Marilyn lived on and off...

A New Chapter Begins at Marilyn’s Studio Club

First posted here on October 31, 2018 Part of the former Hollywood Studio Club, where Marilyn lived with other hopeful actresses in the early days of her career, is to reopen as a homeless women’s shelter, as Elijah Chiland reports for LA Curbed. (You can read more posts about Marilyn’s time as a resident here.)...

‘Studio Girls’: Marilyn’s Forgotten Hollywood Sorority

First posted here on January 10, 2017 The Hollywood Studio Club was a home for young actresses where Marilyn lived in 1946-47 (and again in 1948.) The illustrious history of Marilyn’s ‘forgotten Hollywood sorority’ is traced in a fascinating new article for the Messy Nessy Chic website. (Although Marilyn later claimed to have posed nude to...