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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was more interesting than the myth
A century after her birth, the world is still celebrating Marilyn. Her strange combination of luminosity and vulnerability made her immortal
A century on, Marilyn Monroe speaks to the possibilities the United States once offered
With Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, the film star contributed to an unstoppable excitement about the future
Marilyn and Her Books by Gail Crowther: A bizarrely retrograde portrait of the actor as more than a ‘dumb blonde’
This book about Marilyn Monroe’s literary life brims with anodyne observations and saccharine psychology
Marilyn Monroe at 100: What her films reveal about the woman behind the myth
Decades after her death, she continues to attract speculation and fantasy, but her performances are neglected
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If it’s closing time for Jimmy’s Corner, then it’s last orders for New York
If the property titans who run the city have no room for this famous beat-up bar, then what is left?
Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose: One of the most thought-provoking writers working today
We’re enlivened by Marilyn Monroe’s deeply analytical mind, and troubled by the painter Charlotte Salomon’s tragic psychological conflict
It’s Terrible the Things I Have to Do to Be Me: the spectacle’s sinister pull
Taking its title from a courtroom lament by Anna Nicole Smith, this read is a study of how fame transforms a woman into an image
Pamela Anderson: ‘I felt like life was really like death for me’
The former Baywatch star hasn’t always come out on top. But with her role in Gia Coppola’s gritty film The Last Showgirl, she is finally getting the respect she deserves
Life in Hollywood: Golden-age photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly and more
A two-volume collection drawn from the Life magazine archive features outstanding portraits of many of the biggest names in American cinema
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Norma Barzman obituary: One of the last survivors of the Hollywood blacklist
She and her husband were among those iced out of Hollywood because of their affiliation with the Communist party. They moved to Britain and France, where they counted Picasso among their friends
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