Marilyn Monroe

So do we really need one more tribute to Marilyn? Of course we do!
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Last updated: 6/2/2002

• Fox Home Entertainment has just released five more of Marilyn's movies on DVD and VHS. They are available separately or as a set, Marilyn Monroe, The Diamond Collection Volume II.
• The May/June 2002 issue of Photo Techniques has an illustrated article, Marilyn Monroe: Bringing Faded Transparencies Back to Life. This article by Bob Pace details the process he followed to restore a faded color transparency of an outtake from Marilyn's 1949 nude calendar session.
• The May/June 2002 issue of American Photo has a four page illustrated feature about Douglas Kirkland's 1961 photo session with Marilyn.
• The April 2002 issue of Photo District News features an article profiling Joshua Greene and his efforts to digitally restore his father's photographs. The article, Some Like It Retouched, includes a color image of Marilyn, before and after restoration. Don't miss the full size version of the image on page 61.
• New book, February 2002: Marilyn Memorabilia : Putting a Price on the Priceless Performer by Clark Kidder.
• The Prince and the Showgirl was released on DVD on January 8, 2002. (See my 2001 archive page for links to other recent MM on DVD releases.)
• Blonde Heat: The Sizzling Screen Career of Marilyn Monroe is a new book by Richard Buskin. Amply and lushly illustrated, it covers Marilyn's screen, television, and radio career.
• Schirmer/Mosel Verlag published a new MM photo book in Fall 2001: Douglas Kirkland's Eine Nacht mit Marilyn (A Night with Marilyn).
• Also published Fall 2001: Some Like It Hot, a large coffee table book devoted to the classic movie.
• Here are some other recently published books that I can highly recommend.
  • Cursum Perficio: Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood Hacienda is a new book (published October 2000) by Gary Vitacco-Robles. It details Marilyn's last months as she searches for, purchases, and furnishes her first home. A thoughtful and revealing work, beautifully illustrated.
  • A reprint of Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting was issued in Summer 2000. See also my Bert Stern page.) It can also be ordered from amazon.com.
  • Now available: an excellent collectors' guide to MM magazine covers, Marilyn Monroe: Cover to Cover by Clark Kidder (softcover, $24.95). For orders, call 1-800-258-0929 Dept. PR99 (Krause Publications), or check your local bookstore or amazon.com.
• Pacific Licensing is offering authorized limited editions of published and unpublished pose from Marilyn's nude calendar session with Tom Kelley.
• Archive: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Marilyn appearances from 1997-2002

Picture of the Month Starting May 1996, a new picture will be featured every month
A Model Girl Before she was Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane Dougherty was a popular model.
Cover Girl
Marilyn The Movie Star
Milton Greene's Marilyn See also the Archives of Milton H. Greene, L.L.C..
Bert Stern: The Last Sitting (Updated 8/7/2000) Marilyn's last formal studio session, end of June 1962. See also Bert Stern's web site.
Marilyn's birthday Marilyn would have turned 75 on June 1, 2001.

MM in 3D. Silent screen star Harold Lloyd took these stereo pictures of Marilyn. These are "free view" stereo; to view, relax your eyes so that the two images merge into one. Source for these images: Suzanne Lloyd Hayes. 3-D Hollywood. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

• 3D Marilyn 1 Marilyn in 1952 in the same white dress as her 4/7/52 LIFE cover.
• 3D Marilyn 2 Marilyn at poolside in 1953 in the swimsuit from How to Marry a Millionaire.

Note: linking pages will be added here as I have time.

• Niagara (1953)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
• How To Marry a Millionaire (1953)
• River of No Return (1954)
• Bus Stop (1956)
• Something's Got To Give (1962, uncompleted)

• The Marilyn Reporter Fan Club An amazing MM community
• CMG Worldwide, Inc., is the representative of Marilyn Monroe's estate. They have a home page for Marilyn.
• The Marilyn Museum
• The Archives of Milton H. Greene, L.L.C. have archival quality prints of Greene's photographs for sale. They also have available autographed copies of Milton's Marilyn.
• Love, Norma Jeane is Andre de Dienes' official site on the web.
• David Conover, The Man Who Discovered Marilyn Monroe Site about Conover and Marilyn, with several of his prints for sale at reasonable prices.
• MM on TV this month Listing of Marilyn's films on cable, from TVNow
• Life covers Life magazine has all their covers from 1936-1972 online; search "Marilyn Monroe" to see Marilyn's covers.
• More links to Marilyn Last updated 6/2/2002

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• Marilyn Monroe communities on Yahoo Groups -- I can highly recommend Hollywoodland and Marilynsplace.
• Marilyn Monroe Fan Clubs Revised 7/11/2001
• Rare Marilyn videos Revised 1/20/98
• Search my bibliography by title, author, and keyword.

• The Marilyn Encyclopedia by Adam Victor is a thorough, accurate, amply illustrated glossy volume that puts almost any information you could want about Marilyn at your fingertips.
• Published July 1999: Marilyn Monroe: Cover to Cover by Clark Kidder. This is an outstanding collectors guide that features color pictures of hundreds of Marilyn's magazine covers, along with photographer credits, collector value for each magazine, and interesting comments by Mr. Kidder. A followup to Kidder's hard to find Marilyn Monroe UnCovers (Quon Editions, 1994), this book should become a highlight of any MM fan's collection. Order from the publisher (1-800-258-0929 Dept. PR99) if you can't find it at your local bookstore.
• Published Spring 1999: Marilyn: A Life In Pictures by Diana Karanikas Harvey.
• Published December 1998: a new mini-edition of Milton's Marilyn.