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Marilyn News
Sunny Thompson in
Marilyn Forever Blonde is coming to Europe and the UK! Please click on
the photo for details!
A New Marilyn Community Site!
This is Marilyn
A wonderful
new network has been launched. It’s a place where fans from all over
the world can get together and share photos, videos and the talk is
all about Marilyn and as if that wasn’t brilliant enough… there is a
competition to win vintage photographs limited edition prints of
Marilyn signed by the photographers – prizes range in value from $800
to a grand prize worth over $12,000! The contest is being sponsored by
One West Publishing inc and Marilyn Remembered.
All
registered members of thisismarilyn.com will be automatically entered
into the contest and can earn points towards winning by participating
in the community, uploading photos, commenting on other fans uploaded
photos etc.
Take a look
and see what you think – I found lots of new photos that I’d never
seen before!
22nd April 2009
Marilyn photographer Jack Cardiff dies
aged 94
Another Marilyn photographer has died this month
at his Cambridge home. Cardiff worked with Marilyn on The Prince and
the Show Girl. (click on photo for details) More information on the
work of Jack Cardiff coming soon to Loving Marilyn.
Exhibition of the Photography of Sam
Shaw
Exhibition runs from 30th April 2009 to
26th July 2009
(Click photo for details)
BBC Radio 2 - Blonde on Blonde
Mariella Frostrup celebrates
three iconic blondes:
Doris Day - 7th April 2009 -
at 10.30pm
Diana Dors - 14th April 2009 -
at 10.30pm
Marilyn
Monroe - 21st April 2009 at 10.30pm
Marilyn Photographer - Joseph Jasgur
dies - 21st March 2009 in Florida 2 days before his 90th Birthday.
(click photo for obituary)
It was Jasgur (seen above with Marilyn in 1946) that
began the urban myth that Marilyn had 6 toes in his book 'The Birth of
Marilyn Monroe' this claim has been completely disproved -
see here. More details on the
work of Jasgur coming soon to Loving Marilyn.
22nd April 2009
Cecil Beaton Exhibition in London -
including photos of Marilyn
Prints on view and available to buy!- click
photo for information
New West End Musical in London -
click photo for information
Exhibition of Marilyn's Costumes in
Jersey!
January 29th to end of December 2009
The Jersey Museum are exhibiting an amazing
collection of Marilyn's costumes. The collection belongs to David
Gainsborough-Roberts who has kindly loaned the items to the museum.
Featuring
Gowns and
swimwear from many of her films including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,
How to Marry a Millionaire, There’s No Business Like Show Business,
The Seven Year Itch, Bus Stop, The Prince and the Showgirl, Some Like
It Hot and The Misfits - for any Marilyn fan this is not an exhibition
to missed!
Click her for more information
December 4th 2008 -
Christies auctioned Marilyn Monroe
Items!
NEWS FLASH - Jacket sold
for £39,650!!!
Click on Jacket for further information!
The stunning Marilyn
Monroe look-alike Suzie Kennedy modelled to perfection Marilyn's
jacket and fur stole at the Christie's auction on Thursday 4th
December
For more information
about Suzie please click the link to visit
Suzie Kennedy as Marilyn and
Loving Marilyn's
Professional Bombshells
page.
May 20th 2008
 Marilyn's
stand-in Evelyn Moriarty has died in a nursing home in Los Angeles
suffering from Parkinson's disease on 20th May 2008 age unknown but
approximately between 80-86).
'The same height and colouring
as Marilyn, Moriarty was spotted by director George Cukor in a line of
showgirls at Ear Carroll's nightclub and picked to be Marilyn's
stand-in for Lets Make Love (1960). She kept the job on The Misfits
(1961) and the unfinished Something's Got to Give. A reporter who
interviewed her in 1987, twenty-five years after Marilyn's death,
noticed her "slip into Marilyn's mannerisms that she learned first
hand-pursing her lips, batting her lashes or whispering in Marilyn's
silky voice".
Moriarty unfailingly recalls
Marilyn as a kind, generous, and loyal person who loved and took care
of animals. She also helped people, such as during production of Let's
Make Love when she made (an anonymous) donation of $1,000 to pay for
the funeral expenses of the wife of a crew member.
The last time Moriarty saw
Marilyn was on the star's thirty-sixth birthday, on what turned out to
be the last day of shooting on Something's Got to Give before the
studio closed the picture down. Moriarty had gone round the set and
collected fifty cents from all the crew to buy a surprise cake. When
an executive said he would cover the cost she returned the money and
was driven by studio car to Humphries bakery at the Farmer's Market.
Marilyn was said to be delighted by the impromptu celebration.
Ever since Marilyn's death,
Moriarty has faithfully paid her respects on the star's birthday at
the Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Moriarty has featured in many
Marilyn documentaries and has always been the voice of unending
praise. Of the flood of books that have come out about Marilyn
Moriarty said "they are writing fiction and saying it is true, it's
mind boggling"...' (information taken
from The Complete Marilyn Monroe by Adam Victor)
Moriarty has been
buried at the Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery near Marilyn's crypt.
March 24th 2008
 The
actor Richard Widmark, Marilyn's co-star in Don't Bother to Knock has
died aged 93 after a long illness.
details here
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