By Movie StarAlfred HitchcockAudrey HepburnAva GardnerBarbara StanwyckBasil RathboneBette DavisBetty GrableBilly WilderBob HopeBoris KarloffBurt LancasterBuster KeatonCarole LombardCary GrantCharlie ChaplinClara BowClark GableClaudette ColbertDana AndrewsDeanna DurbinDebbie ReynoldsDoris DayElizabeth TaylorErnst LubitschErrol FlynnEsther WilliamsFranchot ToneFred AstaireFred MacMurrayGary CooperGene KellyGinger RogersGloria SwansonGrace KellyGreer GarsonGregory PeckGreta GarboHarold LloydHedy LamarrHenry FondaHoward HawksHumphrey BogartIda LupinoIngrid BergmanIrene DunneJack BennyJack LemmonJames CagneyJames StewartJane RussellJean ArthurJean HarlowJeanette MacDonaldJeanne CrainJoan BlondellJoan CrawfordJoan FontaineJohn FordJohn WayneJudy GarlandKatharine HepburnKay FrancisKirk DouglasLana TurnerLauren BacallLillian GishLon ChaneyLoretta YoungLouise BrooksMae WestMarilyn MonroeMarion DaviesMarlene DietrichMary AstorMary PickfordMickey RooneyMiriam HopkinsMyrna LoyNatalie WoodNorma ShearerOlivia de HavillandOrson WellesPaul NewmanPreston SturgesRichard WidmarkRita HayworthRobert MitchumRudolph ValentinoShirley TempleSidney PoitierSpencer TracySteve McQueenTeresa WrightTyrone PowerVincent PriceVivien LeighWilliam HoldenWilliam PowellWilliam WylerWoody Allen By HolidayNew Year's DayPresident's DayValentine's DayEasterMother's DayFather's DayMemorial DayJuly 4thLabor DayColumbus DayHalloweenThanksgivingChristmasBlack History MonthWomen's History Month All Blogs4 Star Films (3437)50 Most Influential Disney Animators (58)A Person in the Dark (360)All Good Things (815)Backlots (410)Caf? Muscato (572)Caftan Woman (904)Carole & Co. (3081)Cary Grant Won't Eat You (477)Christy Putnam (76)Cinema Crossroads (42)Cinematic Catharsis (850)Cinematically Insane (268)CineMaven's Essays from the Couch (152)Classic Cinema Gold (319)Classic Film & TV Cafe (1235)Classic Film Freak (367)Classic Film Review (14)Classic Horror Campaign (257)Classic Movie Hub Blog (1820)Classic Movie Man (873)Classic Movies (3247)Classic Reel Girl (95)Comet Over Hollywood (1229)Creme de la Creme (31)Criterion Blues (770)Critica Retro (1392)Curtains (58)Durnmoose Movie Musings (1105)Film Reviews and Anything Else I Get Inspired by (5)Finding Franchot: Exploring the Life and Career of Franchot Tone (161)Flickers in Time (2195)GlamAmor (583)Hitchcock Master (128)Hollywood Revue (532)Hometowns to Hollywood (699)How Sweet It Was (86)In The Good Old Days Of Classic Hollywood (154)Journeys in Classic Film (1765)Lady Eve's Reel Life (731)Le Mot du Cinephiliaque (945)Love Letters to Old Hollywood (150)MacGuffin Movies (362)Margaret Perry (165)Mildred's Fatburgers (201)Movie Classics (287)Movies Silently (1029)Noir and Chick Flicks (1998)Noirish (1273)Old Hollywood Films (651)Once Upon a Screen (420)Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog (2142)Outspoken and Freckled (140)Phantom Empires (60)Please Go Away: A Katharine Hepburn Blog (456)Pop Culture ImagineMDD (103)Pretty Clever Films (1413)Reel Distracted (20)ScribeHard on Film (162)Serendipitous Anachronisms (82)Shadows and Satin (827)Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers (1795)Smitten Kitten Vintage (48)Smum County (115)Stardust and Shadows (120)Studies in Cinema (118)Sunset Blvd (39)The Baz (155)The Best Picture Project (905)The Blonde At The Film (319)The Bogie Film Blog (147)The Cinema Dilettante (110)The Giddy Blog (152)The Great Katharine Hepburn (240)The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog (1564)The Jeanette MacDonald Blog (94)The Man on the Flying Trapeze (643)The Motion Pictures (791)The Movie Rat (746)The Old Hollywood Garden (424)The Stop Button (3203)The Timothy Carey Experience (1181)The Vintage Cameo (134)The Wonderful World of Cinema (562)Timeless Hollywood (73)True Classics (573)Virtual Virago (1611)Where Danger Lives (136)Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest (631)

Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe Book GiveawayFor ages 14-17, grades 9-12We have 10 Books to Giveaway Now through Nov 7! Weatherford’s intimate writing style will make readers feel like they’re accessing Marilyn’s private journals. The story is dedicated to anyone who has ever felt read more

Icon: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn MonroeExclusive Book Giveaway! We are happy to say that it’s time for our next book giveaway! This time CMH will be giving away TWO COPIES EACH of ICON: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn Monroe, Volume 1 and ICON: The Life, Times and Films of Marilyn read more

On June 1, 2020, Marilyn Monroe would have turned 94 years old. Though she died at the tragically young age of 36, Monroe was refreshingly candid and unbothered by the concept of aging. “I want to grow old without facelifts,” she told an interviewer, saying she couldn’t wait to r read more

Warning: just teeny bit political I was flipping through some Facebook posts and landed on “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” I watched the entire number because it is one of my all-time favorites; Marilyn at her very best and oh t read more

Ticklish Business returns with guest Nina Boski of the Goodnight Marilyn radio show. I talk to her about Marilyn’s life and career, as well as her enduring legacy. Want to support the podcast? Consider leaving an iTunes rating and review, or becoming a Patron via Patreon. https://www.podbean. read more

J. Randy Taraborelli’s biography of Marilyn Monroe has made a home on my bookshelf for at least three years. After the airing of Lifetime’s surprisingly exemplary adaptation of it – which I reviewed – I figured now was the time to actually crack that binding. There are as man read more

THE GOLDEN AGE OF GOSSIP What Legendary Movie Stars Said about Each Other Part Three of a Four-Part Series Melvyn Douglas, who first co-starred with Greta Garbo in As You Desire Me [1932], remembered her as “icy and distant.” He also said she had no flair for comedy and believes it was her “humorles read more

Norma Jeane Baker (Mortensen on her birth certificate), who would grow up to become Marilyn Monroe. Pictured here around the time when she lived at the Los Angeles Orphan’s Home Society, now known as EMQ FamiliesFirst Hollygrove. June 1, 2016 marks what would have been Marilyn Monroe’s read more

Image Source She was very beautiful and very inquiring and unsure--she was somebody in a play not yet written, uncertain of her part in the over-all plot. As far as I can recall, she was humble, punctual and untemperamental. She wanted people to like her. -George Sanders, about Marilyn Monroe Qu read more

“A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan” AND “Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress” Book Giveaway Qualifying Entry Task for FACEBOOK and Blog Contest Okay, now it’s time for the Facebook/Blog version of our Walter Brennan and Marilyn Monroe Book Giveaway. That said, we’ll read more

“A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan” AND “Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress” Book Giveaway Qualifying Entry Task for TWITTER Contest And now for our next contest! I am thrilled to say that CMH will be giving away FOUR copies of A Real American Character: The read more

Just last week I called the biopics on Lifetime “low-hanging fruit.” The fact that the network was moving forward on the umpteenth Marilyn Monroe biopic failed to inspire confidence, not just from me but Marilyn Monroe biographer Carl Rollyson. With trepidation I sat down to find out abo read more

Lifetime, the studio that’s brought back to the biopic in a way that’s both fascinating and terrifying, has set their sights on our favorite “blonde bombshell,” Marilyn Monroe. In honor of their upcoming presentation of The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe this week, I sat down read more

1. Some Like it Hot 2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 3. The Seven Year Itch 4. All About Eve 5. The Asphalt Jungle 6. The Misfits 7. Bus Stop 8. How to Marry a Millionaire 9. Clash by Night 10. Don’t Bother to Knock 11. Niagara 12. Something’s Got to Give read more

1. Some Like it Hot 2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 3. The Seven Year Itch 4. All About Eve 5. The Asphalt Jungle 6. The Misfits 7. Bus Stop 8. How to Marry a Millionaire 9. Clash by Night 10. Don’t Bother to Knock 11. Niagara 12. Something’s Got to Give Imperfection is beauty, madness is ge read more

The Misfits 1961The final film of Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe Directed by John Huston, the 1961 movie, The Misfits starred Clark Gable, The Misfits Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter and Eli Wallach. There is a lot outside of the movie itself that makes i read more

Happy birthday,Marilyn Monroe movie watch-fest https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Yesterday was Marilyn Monroe’s birthday.Happy birthday to Marilyn Monroe.    I watched a  movie watch fest of gems yesterday for her birthday,I started it off with There’s No Business read more

Happy birthday,Marilyn Monroe movie watch-fest https://www.facebook.com/Wolffianclassicmoviesdigest Yesterday was Marilyn Monroe’s birthday.Happy birthday to Marilyn Monroe.    I watched a  movie watch fest of gems yesterday for her birthday,I started it off with There’s No Business read more

In the story of the life of Marilyn Monroe, 1953 was an exceptional year.  It is perhaps the greatest year of her tragically short life.  1953 began with her star on the rise from some successes of the year before; it ended with Marilyn being the biggest star in the world.  Niagara&nb read more

It’s not known exactly when Marilyn Monroe discovered and fell in love with Emilio Pucci’s fashion designs. What we do know is that, in the last couple of years of her life, Pucci’s fashions became her personal clothes of choice. From about 1960 to the last images of her in 1962, Monroe can almost read more