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2025: A Year in Film
Adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Vineland, no recent film speaks to our chaotic moment like One Battle After Another. Hilarious and unrelenting – with bravura turns from Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio...
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Joan Mellen: Marilyn’s First Female Filmographer
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. She was...
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Atomic Blondes: Marilyn and Kathleen Hughes
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...
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Hollywood or Bust: Remembering June Wilkinson
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...
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Jay Kanter: Agent to Marlon, Marilyn and More
Jay Kanter, the veteran Hollywood agent turned producer, died aged 97 on August 6, 2024. He was born in Chicago in 1926. His father, a furniture salesman, died when Jay was nine years old, and he moved...
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2024: A Year in Film
In a year when I was more often drawn to world cinema, there was at least one notable exception. Steve McQueen’s Blitz packs more action in two hours than some Hollywood blockbusters, and despite a...
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Rosalina Neri: From ‘La Marilyn Italiana’ to Milanese Diva
Rosalina Neri, the singer and actress known as ‘la Marilyn Italiana’ (or ‘Marilina’) has died aged 96 after a short illness. She was born in Arcisate in 1927, in the Varese region of Lombardy. Her...
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Rain in May: Joan in Bristol, and Jeanne in Oz
A midday screening of Lewis Milestone’s Rain (1932) heads up a double bill at the Bristol Aquarium cinema this Saturday, May 11. The event boasts an introduction by programmer James Harrison of Film...
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Children of Hollywood: Marilyn and Diana Herbert
Actress Diana Herbert, who met Marilyn Monroe on the set of her first movie, died aged 95 in Los Angeles on May 3, 2023. She was born in Beverly Hills on Christmas Day, 1928. Her father, F. Hugh...
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Cinema Revival: ‘The Letter’ in Columbus, Ohio
The first big-screen adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s The Letter is showing in a new 35mm restoration – from the sole surviving nitrate print – at 2:30 pm tomorrow, March 2, at the Wexner Centre for...
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Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
Bernard F. Dick, a professor of English and communication at Fairleigh-Dickson University in New Jersey, has published many titles on the classical era of Hollywood film-making, covering a wide range...
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‘Man, Woman and Sin’ at MoMA
Jeanne Eagels with John Gilbert and Marc McDermott in Man, Woman and Sin Jeanne Eagels’ last silent movie – and her only Hollywood shoot – Man, Woman and Sin (1927) is showing in a restored print as...
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2023: A Year in Film
Adapted from David Grann’s history of the Osage murders, Killers of the Flower Moon was – for me at least – the cinematic event of 2023. With authoritative performances from Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert...
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Sixty Years Later: Scandal ’63 Revisited
“In Britain at the start of the 1960s, Victorian values are still mainstream. There is a rich ruling class who are better than everybody else, women are mostly thought of as the property of the men...
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‘Man, Woman and Sin’ and ‘A View From the Bridge’ at Cinecon
Man, Woman and Sin – the final silent film starring Jeanne Eagels, and her only Hollywood production – enjoyed a rare big-screen outing during the Labour Day weekend, as part of the 59th Cinecon...
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Scandal ’63 Revisited: Symposium in Leicester
A symposium for Scandal ’63 Revisited will be held at Leicester Gallery on Friday, April 14th, ahead of the exhibition’s last day on Saturday. Tickets are free but must be reserved in advance here....
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Walter Mirisch: ‘Some Like It Hot’ Producer Dies at 101
Walter Mirisch, producer of Some Like It Hot, has died aged 101. He was born in New York in 1921. His father, Max, was a tailor born in Krakow, and his mother was the daughter of Polish and Hungarian...
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‘Scandal’ Revisited as New Exhibition Opens in Leicester
Scandal, the 1989 movie dramatising the Profumo Affair, is showing at the Phoenix Leicester at 7:30 pm this Friday, March 3rd, introduced by producer Stephen Woolley with an onstage Q&A. Whatever...
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Stella Stevens: An Adventurous Blonde
Actress Stella Stevens died in Los Angeles on Friday, February 17th, 2023, aged 84. She was born Estelle Eggleston in Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1938. Her family moved to Memphis, Tennessee when she...
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Zimbelism: Marilyn’s ‘Momento’ on 52nd and Lexington
George S. Zimbel, the photographer who documented the shooting of Marilyn Monroe’s most famous movie scene, has died aged 93. He was born to Jewish immigrant parents in Woburn, Massachusetts in 1929,...
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