‘The Hook’: Marilyn and Arthur Miller’s Lost Screenplay

First posted here on June 10, 2015 The Hook, Arthur Miller’s long-buried screenplay about a bitter conflict between workers on the Brooklyn docks – a district still known as Red Hook – is finally being staged at the Royal and Derngate Theatre in Northampton after more than sixty years on the shelf, as Matt Trueman...

On This Day: ‘Joe, Marilyn Married Here’

First posted here on January 14, 2017 The San Francisco Chronicle has reposted their front page from January 15, 1954 – the day after Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn at City Hall. (And just FYI, January 14 has seen some other significant events over the years – including the release of Clara Bow’s It in 1926,...

Marilyn, Arthur and Inge: A Russian Perspective

First posted here on June 3rd, 2016 In a recent article entitled ‘Candle in the Wind: America, Russia, and Marilyn Monroe’s Free Fall’ for the RBTH website, the Russian novelist Viktor Yerofeyev recalls meeting Arthur Miller with his third wife, photographer Inge Morath, during the 1990s, and ruminates on Miller’s prior marriage to Marilyn. “I looked...

Rebecca Miller on Arthur, Marilyn and More

First posted here on March 11th, 2018 The author and filmmaker Rebecca Miller has spoken with Maureen Dowd for the New York Times about Arthur Miller: Writer, a documentary about her father which makes its US television debut on HBO on March 19. Unlike Arthur’s older children, Robert and Jane, Rebecca never knew Marilyn personally, but her marriage...

Remembering Arthur Miller and Marilyn

First posted here on February 23, 2015 The tenth anniversary of Arthur Miller’s death is being marked with a London revival of A View From the Bridge – the controversial play that first opened in the same city back in 1956, during filming of The Prince and the Showgirl. In tribute to Miller, The Guardian has republished a 1998 interview...

Mystery Solved: Marilyn on New Year’s Eve, 1948

First posted here on January 4, 2020 This stunning photo is part of a set taken by Peter Stackpole for LIFE magazine during a party at the Beverly Hills home of producer Sam Spiegel on New Year’s Eve, 1948, posted on Twitter. Marilyn was still a long way from stardom, having only two bit parts and a lead...

Marilyn’s Journey to Judaism

First posted here on October 26, 2017 In a fascinating blog post, MM fan Simone Esther looks at Marilyn’s conversion to Judaism in 1956 in the context of a lifelong spiritual journey. “Norma Jeane’s interest in [Christian Science] drastically subsided when Aunt Ana tragically died of heart failure in 1948, but with her natural intellect and eager...

Love Letters From Marilyn’s Lost Archive

First posted here on November 26, 2014 Love letters sent to Marilyn – including a lusty paean from Arthur Miller, and a regretful missive from Joe DiMaggio, as reported in People magazine– are currently on display at the Newbridge Style Icons Museum in County Kildare, Ireland, until this Saturday, November 28. The letters will then be included...

When Marilyn ‘Caught Cold’ From Joe

First posted here on November 16, 2014 The New York Daily News has republished a number of archive articles relating to Joe DiMaggio, born a century ago this week. One of the sadder stories reports on his and Marilyn’s divorce hearing at the Santa Monica Court on October 27, 1954. ‘Marilyn Is Free: Love Caught Cold From...

Cameron Mitchell: Marilyn’s ‘Millionaire’ Co-Star

First posted here on September 16, 2014 Actor Cameron Mitchell (1921-1994), who played Lauren Bacall's beau Tom Brookman in How to Marry a Millionaire, will be honoured in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, beginning with a screening of the 1953 comedy on September 27 at the Zion Church, Glen Rock, the York Daily Record reports. The event will...