2025: A Year in Music
22 Monday Dec 2025
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2025, A Year in Music, Bedtime Stories, Blondie, Bluebird, Clem Burke, Confessions on a Dancefloor, Ezra Furman, Father John Misty, Henry Come On, Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, Katherine Priddy, Lana Del Rey, Lisa MacKinney, Madonna, Mani, Marianne Faithfull, Suede, The Bangles, The Shangri-Las, The Stone Roses, Veronica Electronica
With old favourites promising new music for next year, 2025 became a waiting game. Continue reading
Angels of Pop: Marilyn and Rosalyn Drexler
30 Tuesday Sep 2025
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Arthur Miller, Clark Gable, Connecticut, Cornell Capa, Homage to Marilyn Monroe, Ira Slade, Kermit Miller, Mara Scherbatoff, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Pursued by Death, New York, Paris Match, Pop Art, Rosalyn Drexler, Roxbury, Sidney Janis Gallery, Something's Got To Give, The Misfits
Rosalyn Drexler, a pioneer of the Pop Art movement – and one of the first women to paint Marilyn Monroe – has died aged 98. Continue reading
Joan Mellen: Marilyn’s First Female Filmographer
22 Monday Sep 2025
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Bus Stop, Clash By Night, Don't Bother To Knock, Feminism, Frank Powolny, Gene Kornman, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Germany, Gloria Steinem, Italy, Joan Mellen, John F. Kennedy, Larry McMurtry, Marilyn Monroe, Netherlands, Nickolas Muray, Pyramid Illustrated History of the Movies, Ralph Schoenman, Richard Avedon, Sam Shaw, Sexism, Some Like It Hot, The Misfits, Turkey, Typecasting
Joan Mellen – the academic whose many books included the first female-authored (and feminist) critical biography of Marilyn Monroe, with a primary focus on her film career – has died aged 83. Continue reading
Atomic Blondes: Marilyn and Kathleen Hughes
21 Sunday Sep 2025
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3D, A Ticket to Tomahawk, Barbara Rush, Censorship, Cinemascope, Cleo Moore, Diana Herbert, F. Hugh Herbert, Film Noir, Hollywood Museum, Howard Hughes, It Came From Outer Space, Jane Russell, Kathleen Hughes, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Remembered, River of No Return, Rock Hudson, Rory Calhoun, Science Fiction, Stanley Rubin, Stars and Stripes, Strictly for Kicks, The Glass Web, The Seven Year Itch, Twentieth Century Fox
Kathleen Hughes, star of It Came From Outer Space, has died aged 96. As well as playing the ‘bad girl’ in cult movies and appearing on numerous TV shows, she was married to River of No Return producer Stanley Rubin for sixty years, and befriended many stars from Hollywood’s golden age, including Marilyn Monroe. Continue reading
Hollywood or Bust: Remembering June Wilkinson
14 Sunday Sep 2025
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June Wilkinson, who has died aged 85, was a British-born showgirl who became a popular Playboy model and B-movie starlet after crossing the Atlantic in 1958. One of the most curvaceous blonde bombshells, June fought to prove herself as more than just another pin-up – and in an echo of Marilyn Monroe’s romance with Joe DiMaggio, she also married (and divorced) a famous athlete. During a lengthy, unconventional career, she reinvented herself as a stage diva, cable TV broadcaster, and fitness guru.
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