Tag Archives: Marilyn Monroe

“She Had Such an Inferiority Complex.”

Posted on November 20, 2005 by sheila

From Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors, by Peter Bogdonavich: Howard Hawks, who directed her first big success, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (co-starring established, top-billed sex goddess Jane Russell), had initially directed her a year earlier, in … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Monroe: “She was committed to these parts as though they were real people, not cardboard cutouts.”

Posted on November 20, 2005 by sheila

From Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors, by Peter Bogdonavich: More than forty years have passed since Marilyn’s mysterious death, but her legend and persona have survived. This is all the more remarkable because she actually … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Monroe Hanging Out With Clifford Odets

Posted on November 20, 2005 by sheila

From Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors, by Peter Bogdonavich: I recalled Orson Welles telling me about being at a Hollywood party which Marilyn attended (circa 1946 or ’47) while she was still a lowly starlet, … Continue reading →

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Arthur Miller on Marilyn Monroe

Posted on November 20, 2005 by sheila

Arthur Miller wrote, in his autobiography Timebends: A Life: She was a whirling light to me then, all paradox and enticing mystery, street-tough one moment, then lifted by a lyrical and poetic sensitivity that few retain past early adolescence. Sometimes … Continue reading →

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Elia Kazan on Marilyn Monroe:

Posted on November 20, 2005 by sheila

Elia Kazan wrote about Marilyn in his autobiography, Elia Kazan: A Life: Relieve your mind now of the images you have of this person. When I met her, she was a simple, eager young woman who rode a bike to … Continue reading →

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John Strasberg on Marilyn Monroe: “She Really Looked At Me As If She Saw Me.”

Posted on November 19, 2005 by sheila

Here’s a quote from John Strasberg, son of the famous acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Monroe studied with Lee Strasberg, and idolized him. The Strasberg family basically adopted her. She was a grown woman, and one of the biggest stars in … Continue reading →

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Billy Wilder on Marilyn Monroe: “She had a kind of elegant vulgarity.”

Posted on November 5, 2005 by sheila

Billy Wilder had a notoriously difficult time directing Marilyn Monroe, and yet he knew that if he wanted movie magic, he had to put up with her neuroses. Here are his words, from Cameron Crowe’s Conversations with Wilder: “Whatever she … Continue reading →

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The Books: “After the Fall” (Arthur Miller)

Posted on August 3, 2005 by sheila

Next in my Daily Book Excerpt: Next play on the script shelf: After the Fall: A Play in Two Acts (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller. This play, while not his best, is very near to my heart – because of … Continue reading →

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The Books: “Marilyn: The Last Take” (Peter Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham)

Posted on May 27, 2005 by sheila

Next book in my Daily Book Excerpt: The following book in my true crime section is Marilyn The Last Take (Marilyn Monroe), by Peter Harry Brown and Patte B. Barham. It’s a breathlessly written conspiracy-theory of a book, about the … Continue reading →

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The Brothers Karamazov and Marilyn Monroe

Posted on October 19, 2004 by sheila

I am finally reading The Brothers Karamazov which I started this week. I had a rough time with those first two chapters … as usual. Those Russians with their similar names … Alexey, and Alyosha, and the vitches added to … Continue reading →

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