‘The Asphalt Jungle’ in Somerville, MA

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) will be screened in 35mm at the Somerville Theatre in Massachusetts next Wednesday, May 25, at … More

Marilyn Gets Full Marks at the Academy

In her all too brief career, Marilyn never won an Oscar, or was even nominated – and she attended the … More

It’s often said that careers are made by talent, hard work, and a little luck. Marilyn’s breakout role in The … More

Marilyn scores two entries in Paste magazine’s list of the 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time today, with The … More

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) will be screened in a 4K restoration print at AFI Silver in Silver Spring, Maryland – … More

Although some of Marilyn’s best early movies are now categorised as film noir, they also possessed various traits associated with … More

Marilyn’s career at MGM was fairly brief: in 1948, she befriended the studio’s casting director Lucille Ryman and her actor … More

Singer Billy Joel’s 1989 hit, ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ – an earworm if ever there was one – mentioned … More

With Marilyn prominently featured, vintage poster art for The Asphalt Jungle (1950) adorns the cover of film historian Robert Miklitsch’s … More

Marilyn’s breakthrough movie, The Asphalt Jungle, is featured in Kimberly Truhler’s new coffee-table book, Film Noir Style: The Killer 1940s. … More