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Fifty-seven years ago, on Aug. 5, 1962, Marilyn Monroe died at the age of 36 of an overdose in her Los Angeles home. Just three months prior to her death, Monroe, dressed in a skin-tight, nude-colored dress, sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden ten days before his 45th birthday. […]

In 1959, near the end of her extraordinary career, Marilyn Monroe starred in Some Like It Hot, widely considered one of the greatest film comedies of all time. Marilyn Monroe Monroe played the role of Sugar Kane, the singer and ukulele player for Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopators and the object of romantic pursuit by […]

Marilyn Monroe starred in only one western throughout her lengthy, prolific career: a much-forgotten and overlooked film called River of No Return (1954). Though The Misfits, Monroe’s final film, has touches of the Western genre, it better serves as a deconstruction of the genre and can’t really be considered. Marilyn Monroe River of No Return, on the other […]

The Misfits is a 1961 American Contemporary Western film written by Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, and Montgomery Clift. The supporting cast includes Thelma Ritter and Eli Wallach. Adapted by Miller from his own short story of the same name published in Esquire in October 1957, The Misfits was the last completed […]

Irving Berlin’s There’s No Business Like Show Business is a 1954 20th Century-Fox musical-comedy-drama film directed by Walter Lang. It stars an ensemble cast, consisting of Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O’Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Marilyn Monroe, Johnnie Ray, and Hugh O’Brian. Marilyn Monroe The title is borrowed from the famous song in the stage musical (and MGM […]

On July 4th 1962, Richard Meryman began an interview with Marilyn. It will be the last! Marilyn Monroe He wanted some photos with the article but Marilyn wasn’t very happy to do an other sitting. But finally, she was agree to do it in her house. The photographer was Allan Grant. Those photos are the […]

Love Happy is a 1949 American musical comedy film, released by United Artists, directed by David Miller, starring the Marx Brothers. It was the 14th (including Humor Risk) and last film starring feature for the Marx Brothers. The film, produced by former silent film star Mary Pickford, stars Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, and, in a smaller role […]

When we think of Marilyn photographers, the name Ben Ross is one that does not often come up, at least not immediately. However, when looking at his photographs they are some of the most beautiful ever taken of Marilyn Monroe. Ross was to photograph Marilyn three times over her lifetime with the most famous of […]

“I like people. The ‘public’ scares me, but people I trust.” –– Marilyn Monroe Marilyn was almost always happy to sign autographs, pose for photographs, or do a twirl for an 8mm movie camera. Wherever she went, the fans were there. Within hours of her arrival at a hotel, the press got wind of the […]

To speak of Marilyn Monroe is to speak of an actress, an icon and even an industry. The fascination with the most famous “blonde” in Hollywood history moves money around its many facets. Although of all of them, one of the most unknown is related to her passion for cars. Marilyn Monroe Norma Jeane, early […]