Marilyn’s Directors: Howard Hawks

First posted here on December 9th, 2011 In this extract from the filmmaker and critic Peter Bogdanovich’s anthology, Who the Hell’s In It? (2004), he recalls an interview with classic Hollywood maestro Howard Hawks, who directed Marilyn in Monkey Business (1952) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953.)   “Monroe was frightened to come on the stage...

Coast to Coast: Actors Remember Marilyn

First posted here on August 4, 2012 The Los Angeles Times has interviewed several actors who worked with Marilyn, including co-stars Don Murray (Bus Stop) and Mitzi Gaynor (There's No Business Like Show Business), and Actors Studio colleagues Martin Landau and Louis Gossett Jr. “She was trying to prove she was an actress of substance, and in...

Lawrence Schiller on Marilyn and Her Demons

First posted here on June 6, 2012 In an interview for the Miami New Times, photographer Lawrence Schiller talks about working with Marilyn. On the set of Let’s Make Love, you were photographing her in her dressing room and she asked you, ‘How often do you lie?’ Why do you think she was an insecure...

John Strasberg Remembers Marilyn

First posted here on November 22, 2011 John Strasberg, son of Lee and Paula, will be familiar to MM fans as the lucky teenager to whom she gave her black Thunderbird. John’s sister, actress Susan Strasberg, published a family memoir, Marilyn and Me: Sisters, Rivals, Friends, in 1992. John went on to become a teacher...