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...

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...