My Week With Marilyn

Based on the memories of Colin Clark, this movie recounts his time getting to know Marilyn Monroe while she was in England shooting The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier.

"...when the most famous movie star in the world, Marilyn Monroe, came to England to co-star with acting legend..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Obsession: Norma Jean & Marilyn

How HBO’s Monroe biopic highlighted the need for #MeToo

"...few left quite the impression that Norma Jean & Marilyn did. Like those Lifetime dramas, HBO's Marilyn Monroe biopic..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Screens Column by Britt Hayes

America's Mortal Goddess

AFS Essential Cinema enchants with Marilyn Monroe

"..."Dear Marilyn ..." There, below the famously simple nameplate on Marilyn..."

May 31, 2013 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Blonde

Treatise on fame turns Marilyn Monroe's life into a horror story

"...vision of beauty without the scandal of one-night stands. Marilyn Monroe was every American’s fantasy – a desirable beauty..."

Sept. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Calendar Girl

"...who journey to Hollywood, California to tell their idol Marilyn Monroe that they adore her. They plan to walk..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ruby

"...sort of pouty innocent. Her performance is a competent Marilyn Monroe impersonation, which probably does have some historical validity..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

An Open Letter to Reno, Nevada...

Reno: Not such a great place for movies

"...once trod upon by the likes of Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Monty "The Right Profile" Clift...."

June 24, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

Norma Jean & Marilyn

"...The juxtapositions and duality of Marilyn Monroe's life are illustrated with chilling literalness in HBO's..."

March 7, 1997 Screens Feature

Letters at 3AM: The Return of Our Angel

Marilyn Monroe has returned to us recently in various guises

"...Marilyn Monroe said that, and I don't blame her, nor..."

March 9, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3am

"...the very contradictions that torture him most deeply. But Marilyn Monroe would be a close second: Lady Hamlet. No..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

A Stone for Norman Mailer

"...mayor of New York). He wrote a novella of Marilyn Monroe and a novel about Jesus, both in the..."

June 12, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

All About Eve

A record 14 Oscar nominations for the cast and crew, this show-biz classic is as wicked and sophisticated as they come.

"...Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Marilyn Monroe and Barbara Bates. A Triple-S movie (three suicides..."

June 4, 1999 Movie Review

River of No Return

This is a swell CinemaScope movie that shows off the landscape and Marilyn Monroe to their best advantages. It's fun watching Mitchum and Monroe heat things up in the Old West; Monroe is at her most luminous as a saloon singer with a heart of gold.

"...Directed by: Otto Preminger. Starring: Rory Calhoun, Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum. This swell CinemaScope movie that..."

July 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

The life and legacy of the First Lady of Jazz

"...Brown, Jr.), collaborator-peers (Kenny Barron, Tony Bennet), and celebs (Marilyn Monroe). By the time the sleek 89-minute biography peaks..."

June 19, 2020 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Joe DiMaggio's Italian Chophouse

Joe DiMaggio's Italian Chophouse has perfectly made drinks, a solid selection of fish and steak, as well as an ambiance that suggests Joe and Marilyn are nuzzling in the next booth

"...hometown of San Francisco. That's where he eloped with Marilyn Monroe in 1954. Their marriage was short lived, but..."

June 27, 2008 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Fortunate Son

Bass player to the stars, past and present, Mark Andes

"...is a magazine cover of his father Keith with Marilyn Monroe in a love-clinch. Mark resembles his drop-dead handsome..."

May 19, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

There's No Business Like Show Business

"...Walter Lang. Starring: Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Marilyn Monroe and Mitzi Gaynor. Ethel Merman and Marilyn Monroe..."

Aug. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Play It Again, Sam

All About Eve (1950)

"...Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Bates...."

June 4, 1999 Screens Feature

Mister Lonely

Oddly, Harmony Korine's film may be his most accessible as a director, featuring characters and images that are unforgettable – even if they don't add up to a complete narrative or visual whole.

"...the Scottish Highlands. The Michael Jackson look-alike (Luna) meets Marilyn Monroe (Morton) while performing his act in a nursing..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The People's Gallery at City Hall Shows Women With Disabilities in a New Light

The Bold Beauty Project of Texas exhibits portraits of courageous women from across the state

"...dancing with the help of her crutches. Seen her Marilyn Monroe-style photographs – white dress, flirty smile – at..."

Feb. 22, 2019 Arts Feature by Laura Jones

Saint Jackie

It was with high expectations of low class that Stephen MacMillan Moser embarked upon the latest crop of books about Jackie O. But shortly into it, he found himself thinking, "Where's the dirt?"

"...years. He provides new insight into Jackie's reaction to Marilyn Monroe's death. She is told the news while escaping..."

June 9, 2000 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Always at the Carlyle

Behind-the-scenes at NYC's legendary hotel is just PR fluff.

"...that there may or may not be a tunnel Marilyn Monroe used to visit JFK, but this rumor quickly..."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Gum King

How Andy Paris cornered the market

"...as The Thin Man-era William Powell – also dated Marilyn Monroe and was "the most photographed man in America"..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Well-Behaved? Let's Assume Not.

This fall's nonfiction releases spotlight women who made history

"...mugs, and across the Web, attributed to everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Eleanor Roosevelt to Anne Boleyn. But something..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the Naked Truth

For his first turn in the director's seat, JGL tackles pornography ... sort of

"...itself, but its score, a cover version of the Marilyn Monroe classic, "Some Like It Hot." It was a..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bombshell Incoming

'Smash' star Megan Hilty launches Zach concert series tonight

"...looked behind the curtains at a fictitious musical about Marilyn Monroe being developed for Broadway, know Hilty as Ivy,..."

June 18, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Freeway View

A fresh slap of paint and new ZIP code for Austin clubs

"...a couch below a TV showing The Misfits. Onscreen, Marilyn Monroe whacked a paddleball for Clark Gable and a..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Top 9 Joints

"...2) SOME LIKE IT POT A home movie of Marilyn Monroe that purports to show the blond bombshell toking..."

Jan. 1, 2010 News Feature by Jordan Smith

The Bad News on Bettie Page

Bettie Page in coma following heart attack

"...level of cultural saturation, and that is, of course, Marilyn Monroe. And there were many beautiful women in the..."

Dec. 10, 2008 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Living With 'Monstrosities'

Jen Hirt and Scott Webel and their Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata

"...cockroach, a butt from the last cigarette smoked by Marilyn Monroe, a taxidermied pygmy kangaroo, the skull of P.T...."

June 27, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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