In the only picture Brennan ever did for the legendary director John Ford, the character actor worked well beside Ford stalwarts such as Ward Bond, playing one of Earp’s brothers. Indeed, what is most...
In June 2000, I had settled into a cosy stay at Pilgrim’s Lane. Only later would I begin to see that by providing me with so much access and comfort, Michael was buffering the biography. I don’t mean...
How did Brennan achieve this mythic status, this power over not just audiences but also his fellow actors? Today, the question remains unanswered, and this figure key to understanding the power of Hol...
Hazlitt, Swift, and Stendhal filled Michael with all sorts of conceits about the nature of love that grew to have for him a consecration of its own, perhaps best exemplified in Hazlitt’s Liber Amoris,...
February 8: Marilyn does her black sitting session with Milton Greene. Marilyn poses in black hat and fishnet stockings, her face partially in shadow. She also appears in a shot where she lies down, h...
February 27: Muncher Illustrierte (Germany) displays Marilyn and Jane Russell in showgirl costumes, holding black top hats above their heads.
February 26: Marilyn begins work on Monkey Business with director Howard Hawks. As usual, she is late to the set, but Ginger Rogers, in a starring role, said Marilyn always knew her lines. Billy Travi...
February 26: Grace McKee Goddard files papers to become Norma Jeane’s legal guardian.
February 24: Marilyn is the honored guest at the home of Mexican actor, writer, and director Emilio Fernández Romo and his wife, Colunga. Marilyn is introduced to José Bolaños, a well-dressed, twenty-...
February 23: Marilyn applies to legally change her name to Marilyn Monroe.
February 21: Marilyn arrives on the set at 10:30 a.m. Academy Award nominations have just been announced, but her performance in Some Like It Hot has not been acknowledged. Nevertheless, Marilyn happi...
February 21: Joe DiMaggio escorts Marilyn to the airport for her flight from Miami to Mexico. She flies to Mexico with Pat Newcomb and her staff on a shopping expedition to furnish her new hacienda-st...
February 18: Marilyn takes Isidore Miller to dinner at the Club Gigi in the Fontainebleau Hotel. They also see a cabaret show at the Minaret.
February 17: Hanson Baldwin of the New York Times reports: On two occasions troops rioted wildly and behaved like bobby-soxers in Times Square, not like soldiers proud of their uniform.
February 17: Arthur Miller marries Inge Morath.
February 16: Marilyn flies to Seoul, South Korea, to begin entertaining the troops at ten different sites. Her outfit for her performances includes a skin-tight, low-cut, plum-colored crepe cocktail d...
February 15: De Post (Belgium) puts a very business-like Marilyn, dressed in a black suit, on its cover.
February 14: Tempo features Marilyn in a swimsuit she wore in We’re Not Married. Here she stands with her arms resting on a heart (almost as large as she is) with a cupid’s arrow running downward and...
February 14: Marilyn is photographed with Sidney Skolsky attending the wedding of gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, who appears in several two-shots with Marilyn.
February 11: Marilyn shows up for work, but is sent home because she seems unable to proceed.