In There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954), Johnnie Ray played the eldest son of the Travelling Donahues, a clan … More
Category: Celebrities
Lil Nas X Follows Marilyn’s ‘Monteroe’ Star
Rapper Lil Nas X pays homage to Marilyn in a new commercial, Queerty reports. In a recent tweet, Nas dubbed … More
‘All Things Marilyn’ Podcast Launched
All Things Marilyn is a new weekly podcast hosted by Scott Fortner (of Marilyn Monroe Collection fame) and Elisa Jordan, … More
Isabelle Adjani and the Duality of Marilyn
Writing for the Girls On Tops website, Olympia Kiriakou examines the iconic French actress Isabelle Adjani’s latest role in her … More
‘Itch Girls’: Marilyn and Kathy Marlowe
Marilyn may be the most famous blonde bombshell of the fifties, but she wasn’t the only one. Although largely forgotten … More
70 Years Ago: The ‘My Marilyn’ Party
1952 was a turning point in Marilyn’s career. After years of pin-ups and B-movies, she had survived the ‘scandal’ of … More
‘Blonde’ Premieres at the Venice Film Festival
Blonde, the long-awaited adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s novel, had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival yesterday. The … More
When Marilyn Braved the Wrath of ‘King Cohn’
The latest issue of UK nostalgia mag Yours Retro (#53. with Grace Kelly on the cover) includes a 4-page article … More
What Marilyn Means to Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham, the multi-talented (and often controversial) creator of HBO’s Girls, has paid tribute to Marilyn in an essay for … More
American Dreamers: Marilyn and Sylvia Plath
“Sylvia Plath was the Marilyn Monroe of modern literature,” Carl Rollyson wrote in American Isis, his biography of the poet. … More