Running Wild: Marilyn and Billie Holiday

Marilyn’s friendship with Ella Fitzgerald is often cited (and exaggerated), but what about that other great jazz diva, Billie Holiday? … More

Chris Epting’s ‘Pop Culture Road Trip’ With Marilyn

As Chris Epting tells Orange County Magazine, a legendary Marilyn moment on a humble Manhattan subway grate – at 52nd … More

Elliott Erwitt Brings Marilyn Back to New York (and London)

A new revised edition of the 2008 book, Elliott Erwitt’s New York, includes 16 pages of previously unpublished images from … More

‘The Enchanters’: Hollywood Agency Nabs Ellroy’s Marilyn/Otash Novel

James Ellroy’s latest novel, The Enchanters – a heavily fictionalised account of Marilyn’s final days – is being shopped around … More

Remembering Stanley Price’s Lunch With Marilyn

Stanley Price, who died in 2019, was a London-born journalist who later became a novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Among his … More

Darryl F. Zanuck, Marilyn and the ‘Fox Blonde’ Musicals

In his latest book, The Gentleman Preferred Blondes, film historian Bernard F. Dick looks back at the musicals produced by … More

Hollywood Historian Cari Beauchamp Has Died

Cari Beauchamp, the author and film historian, has died aged 74. Born in Berkeley, California, she began her career as … More

Beyond the Legend: Marilyn and Ella Fitzgerald

The friendship between Marilyn and Ella Fitzgerald has inspired plays, children’s books, and even an episode of TV’s Drunk History. … More

Elliott Erwitt: Marilyn’s Last Magnum Photographer Dies at 95

Elliott Erwitt, the French-born photographer who joined Marilyn on location for The Seven Year Itch and The Misfits, has died. … More

Redrawing Marilyn’s ‘Thousand Faces’ in Italy

With a gorgeous cover shot by Douglas Kirkland, Una Vita Negata (‘A Life Denied’) is one of two Marilyn-inspired novels … More