‘Yours Retro’ Goes Deeper With Marilyn and Arthur Miller

Marilyn fronts the latest issue of UK nostalgia mag Yours Retro (#75, dated June 2024), although some may notice that the cover photo – taken while shooting The Seven Year Itch – has been horizontally flipped (just follow the Monroe beauty mark!)

Inside, there’s a six-page feature on Marilyn’s relationship with Arthur Miller by Monroe biographer extraordinaire, Michelle Morgan.

Although perceived by many as an odd couple, they were deeply in love for almost a decade – and as Michelle writes above, Arthur has often been unfairly blamed for Marilyn’s decline, and the collapse of their marriage.

Yours Retro editor Sharon Reid says the article left her with ‘a sense of poignancy’ that Marilyn’s early happiness with Arthur was not to last.

Elsewhere in this month’s issue, Martin Button profiles the vivacious Mitzi Gaynor – who at 92, is Marilyn’s last surviving featured co-star.

70 years after they appeared together in There’s No Business Like Show Business, Mitzi is the subject of an upcoming biography by Peter Shelley, due for release this autumn.

“Mitzi Gaynor: Her Life and Career

Mitzi Gaynor (b. September 4, 1931) is an American actress, singer, dancer and writer. A child dancer, she performed in the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association before being discovered by 20th Century Fox for the movies. She was in a number of Fox movies and won the coveted role of Nellie Forbush in the film version of South Pacific (1958). In the 1960s she played in Las Vegas to great success. She followed with a string of television specials while simultaneously performing on stage. In the 2000s she toured her one-woman show entitled Razzle Dazzle: My Life Behind the Sequins. This is the first biography of Gaynor and features an appendix of her work.”

Thanks to Fraser and Andy