May 26: Filming of Niagara begins.
In contemporary fiction, the criminal is usually the biographer.
Becoming a Biographer: Marilyn Monroe Made Me Do It
June 3: Life publishes Unlikely Pair Make Great Match.
May 20: Marilyn visits the Louella Parsons radio show.
June 19: Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Reverend Benjamin Lingenfelder of the Christian Science church marries Norma Jeane and twenty-one-year-old James Dougherty at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Howell. Che...
February 29: Marilyn, accompanied by her lawyer, Irving Stein, finally appears in court, and Judge Griffin fines her fifty-six dollars for three traffic violations: driving without a license, driving...
May 21: Marilyn reports to Fox for color and wardrobe tests for Niagara.
Cooper caught a break with a featured role as a doomed aviator in Wings (1927), but Walter remained on the periphery, observing the unwritten rule that extras did not consort with stars, yet taking pr...
Recently Michael had encountered Salman Rushdie at a party given by Geoffrey Robertson, the lawyer who had secured Michael’s libel judgment against Rupert Murdoch’s Times. Jill and Michael had install...
Like the best character actors, Brennan brought a badly needed realism to the screen, where it served as an antidote to the soft-focus lighting and toupee-topped stars that romanticized movies.
I aim, as my introduction promises, to be resolutely indiscreet.
February 9: Gladys enters Rockhaven Sanitarium. Marilyn pays $250 a month to support her mother. Marilyn is honored as A Rising Star at the Photoplay Awards Dinner at the Crystal Room of the Beverly H...
February 20: Bob Alden writes from Korea on New York Times stationery to Stan (not otherwise identified): The girl was just wonderful out here. She put every ounce of herself into everything that she...
But if you are a biographer, you know that some of those people the biographer so fulsomely thanks cannot possibly be that good. In our contemporary language, we’d have to say those acknowledgments ju...
May 24: Marilyn and Miller leave the Rauhs’ home and travel by train back to New York City.
May 15–16: Marilyn arrives punctually and works through the customary starts and stops of production without complaint. She watches the rushes and realizes that she is sensational—to employ the word t...
March 5: Marilyn flies from San Francisco to Los Angeles for the Photoplay Awards dinner. Joe flies to New York on business.
June 28: Marilyn, in pain, is hospitalized for gallbladder surgery.
January 24: Time publishes Dostoyevsky Blues.