‘The Asphalt Jungle’: Marilyn’s Most Rented Noir

The Asphalt Jungle is ranked 16th on DVD Netflix’s 25 Most Rented Films Noir, as Raquel Stecher reports in a … More

‘The Asphalt Jungle’ in Noirvember

Writing for the Netflix DVD blog, movie critic Marya E. Gates – who has written appreciations of Marilyn’s filmography and … More

In April 1955, Marilyn gave her first (and only) extensive TV interview on Edward R. Murrow’s Person to Person. The … More

American fans are in for a treat this Saturday as Turner Classic Movies devotes a full day of programming to … More

Marilyn – photographed by Nickolas Muray – graces yet another French magazine cover this week (Télécâble Sat), with a 2-page … More

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

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