The Asphalt Jungle: Marilyn’s ‘Film Gris’

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

Amazon Buys MGM for $8.45 Billion

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

Marilyn Monroe by Milton Greene: The 50 Sessions, an exhibition featuring 84 images from the 2017 book, The Essential Marilyn … More

A movie retrospective for Marilyn begins at Amsterdam’s Lab111 today, with a screening of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Over the next … More

Marilyn’s 1950 breakthrough in The Asphalt Jungle is featured in Jeremy Arnold’s new book for Turner Classic Movies (TCM), The … More