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Mary Ann Lynch at the ‘Marilyn & Me’ Launch
Photographer and artist Mary Ann Lynch, who has been capturing offbeat Marilyn sightings worldwide since 1992, attended the recent launch of Larry Schiller’s Marilyn & Me : A Memoir in Words and...
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Marilyn Monroe: NYC, 1955
In honour of what would be Marilyn Monroe’s 87th birthday, I explore the story behind a remarkable home movie – filmed by a teenage fan, and retrieved by chance almost fifty years later. (This article...
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Styling Marilyn: Kenneth Battelle 1927-2013
Marilyn Monroe, styled by Kenneth for her appearance at the JFK birthday gala in 1962 Kenneth Battelle, who was dubbed ‘hairdresser to the stars’ during the 1950s, died at home in Wappinger Falls, New...
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Liz Smith 1923-2017
Liz Smith, the veteran gossip columnist known as the ‘doyenne of dish’, has died aged 94. She was born Mary Elizabeth Smith in Fort Worth, and graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in...
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To Save and Project: Jeanne Eagels at MoMA
The World and the Woman, the 1916 silent film starring Jeanne Eagels, will be screened today – preceded by a fragment from an early Louise Brooks comedy – at 4:30 pm in New York’s Museum of Modern Art...
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A Singular Loveliness: Marilyn’s Painterly Gesture
In 2018, the feminist art historian Griselda Pollock gave a lecture on Marilyn Monroe at the Caixi Forum in Madrid. Despite the acres of coverage on Monroe’s life, Pollock stated, “there is very...
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Zimbelism: Marilyn’s ‘Momento’ on 52nd and Lexington
George S. Zimbel, the photographer who documented the shooting of Marilyn Monroe’s most famous movie scene, has died aged 93. He was born to Jewish immigrant parents in Woburn, Massachusetts in 1929,...
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‘Man, Woman and Sin’ at MoMA
Jeanne Eagels with John Gilbert and Marc McDermott in Man, Woman and Sin Jeanne Eagels’ last silent movie – and her only Hollywood shoot – Man, Woman and Sin (1927) is showing in a restored print as...
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Marie Irvine: Marilyn’s New York Make-Up Artist
Marie Irvine, who worked as a make-up artist to Marilyn Monroe in New York, died aged 99 in a Florida care facility on January 15, 2024. She was born an only child in the small town of Pawling, New...
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