60 Years Ago: Marilyn Sings for the President

On May 19, 1962 – sixty years ago today – Marilyn sang ‘Happy Birthday Mr. President’ to John F. Kennedy … More

Patricia Rosten Remembers Marilyn

Following the recent French reissue of Norman Rosten’s memoir of Marilyn (see here), his daughter Patricia has given a rare … More

Bob Miller, Marilyn’s stepson from her third marriage to Arthur Miller, has died aged 74. You can read my tribute … More

In my second post on Isaac Butler’s new book, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act, I look … More

Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century is a new book by Stephen Galloway, looking … More

Actor Don Murray – Marilyn’s last surviving leading man – has taken on a new film role at the grand … More

As Marilyn’s career wound down in the early 1960s, a generation of new faces emerged. Among them was English teenager … More

British fans may want to buy a copy of today’s Daily Mail, which includes a two-page spread on Michelle Morgan’s … More

Last year, we learned about the young Norma Jeane’s stay on Catalina Island and her surprising link to the Chicago … More

This photo of Marilyn at Niagara Falls – taken by Jock Carroll – led to a lively discussion among members of … More