George Purifoy Remembers Marilyn in Korea

First posted here on November 29, 2015 86 year-old George Purifoy of Franklin Park, Illinois, has shared his memory of meeting Marilyn during her 1954 USO tour of Korea with TribLive News. “It’s 10 a.m., and the breakfast club of old friends meets at a Panera Bread restaurant in the North Hills. They come daily,...

Remembering Phil Stern and Marilyn

First posted here on December 14, 2014 Photographer Phil Stern has died aged 95, Variety reports. He was born in Philadelphia in 1919, and learned his trade as an apprentice for the Police Gazette. He won a Purple Heart for his work as a unit photographer during World War II, and as a freelance photographer for Life and other publications, was a...

Remembering Marilyn and Mickey Rooney

First posted here on April 7, 2014 Actor Mickey Rooney has died aged 93. Born Joseph Yule Jr in Brooklyn, his parents were vaudeville players, and their son joined them onstage at fourteen months old. By the age of six, he had moved to Hollywood with his mother, Nell, and began appearing in silent comedy...

Gloria Pall and the ‘My Marilyn’ Party

First posted here on January 7, 2013 Model turned actress and entrepreneur Gloria Pall, aka TV’s ‘Voluptua’, died on December 30, 2012, aged 85. Gloria attended the party to celebrate bandleader Ray Anthony’s 1952 hit, ‘My Marilyn’, at his Sherman Oaks home, where Marilyn was the guest of honour. The press even claimed that Gloria...

3D Marilyn and More at Bonhams

First posted here on December 2, 2011 3D photos taken by Lani Carlson, of Marilyn at the party thrown in her honour to celebrate the release of ‘My Marilyn’, performed by Ray Anthony and his band in 1952, are to be sold at Bonham’s Entertainment Memorabilia auction in Los Angeles on December 14. the Daily Telegraph reports. "The images – which...