Remembering ‘Marilyn! The Musical’

First posted here on December 28, 2017 Must Close Saturday: The Decline and Fall Of The British Musical Flop, a new book by Adrian Wright, covers Mort Garson's short-lived 1983 show, Marilyn! The Musical. Despite winning an endorsement from Anna Strasberg, the executor of Marilyn’s estate, the show failed to win over critics and closed...

Marilyn and Khrushchev in Hollywood

First posted here on December 22, 2015 This second extract from Alistair Cooke at the Movies focuses on ‘The Script That Got Away: Mr Khruschev’s Propaganda Tour at US Expense’, an article about the Soviet premier’s historic visit, published in The Guardian after Marilyn attended a Twentieth Century-Fox luncheon in Khrushchev’s honour on September 20, 1959. “He was whizzed so fast...

Remembering Marilyn and Choi Eun-Hee in Korea

First posted here on April 29, 2011 This photograph showing Marilyn with another screen beauty, Choi Eun-hee, at Seoul Airport in February 1954, is featured at the Korean Film Museum (KOFA.) The South Korean actress was joined by another star, Paek Song, to greet Marilyn as she flew in from Japan on a 4-day tour...

Karlie Kloss’ Diamond Tribute to Marilyn

First posted here on March 15, 2017 Supermodel Karlie Kloss has recreated Marilyn’s ‘Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend’ (from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) in a new commercial for Swarovski Crystal, reports Marie-Claire. (In another clip, Karlie imitates Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.) "What I love most about icons like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe...

Gene London: TV Personality and Marilyn Collector Has Died

First posted here on January 28, 2020 Gene London, the television personality turned fashion designer who owned one of the world’s largest Hollywood costume collections, has died aged 88 after a fall at his home in Reading, Pennsylvania on January 19, 2020. He is survived by husband John Thomas, and will be buried alongside his...

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...

‘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...

When Miguel Ferrer Stole Marilyn’s Heart

First posted here on January 22, 2017 Miguel Ferrer, the accomplished character actor whose many screen credits include Robocop and Twin Peaks, died last week aged 61, The Guardian reports. He was born on February 7, 1955 to singer Rosemary Clooney and her husband, actor Jose Ferrer (pictured above left.) Among his impeccable Hollywood connections...

Death in Hollywood: Amber Tamblyn on Marilyn

First posted here on April 8, 2015 Actress Amber Tamblyn – who has appeared in TV shows including Joan of Arcadia, House M.D., and Two and a Half Men, and films such as Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Ring – is also an accomplished poet. Her third collection, Dark Sparkler, focuses on tragic...

Jack Allen To Sell Marilyn’s ‘Down Boy’, and More

First posted here on December 4, 2018 Marilyn By Moonlight author Jack Allen is selling off some items from his collection in the Essentially Marilyn auction on December 11, 2018, at Profiles In History – including photographs and the unreleased song, ‘Down Boy‘, as Mike Szymanski reports for Dreamweaver Arts. (The auction also features the...