In my second post on American Greats, this week’s auction at Christie’s in New York, I’m looking at items from … More
Tag: Mental Illness
Fake News: Marilyn’s ‘Criminal Connection’ to Ronnie Kray
Marilyn landed on the front page of the UK’s Daily Star today, with what may be her strangest headline story … More
‘What Killed Marilyn’: Biographer Concludes Investigation
The concluding volume in Gary Vitacco-Robles’ two-part series, Icon: What Killed Marilyn Monroe, is available now in hardcover, paperback and … 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
On This Day: Marilyn at Payne Whitney
On February 10, 1961, Marilyn was admitted to hospital in New York, as the world’s press reported a day later … More
Colleen Foy On Nursing Marilyn’s Mother in ‘Blonde’
Actress Colleen Foy made an auspicious big-screen debut in Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic drama, There Will Be Blood (2007.) More … More
Rockhaven, Home to Marilyn’s Mother, is Saved
After years of campaigning, Rockhaven – the former women’s sanatarium in Glendale, California, where Marilyn’s mother lived for more than … More
Trauma and Resilience in ‘Marilyn: Behind the Icon’
Monroe biographer and psychotherapist Gary Vitacco Robles is interviewed in the July issue of RAGE Magazine regarding his podcast series, … More
Marilyn Inspires ‘Incriminating Mary’
Srishti Chhabria has spoken about how Marilyn inspired her short film, Incriminating Mary – starring British actress Abbie Steele as … More
The Marilyn Report 