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...A sequence in a Havana fleshpot with Monroe-ish Ana de Armas — also his co-star in Knives Out — is an insta-classic blast of weird, gleeful, deadly screwball....
...The last thing I bought and loved was a pair of sparkly red high-heeled shoes from Ferragamo’s Creations collection; they’re the ones worn by Marilyn Monroe in Let’s Make Love....
...In a fine new book*, Barbara M Thiers, longtime director of the New York Botanical Garden’s huge herbarium, traces the emergence and changing uses of herbaria worldwide....
...Doomed Tom Neal (despite his baby face he was an off-screen wild man) is a walking tragedy and the fabulously named and even more doomed Ann Savage a scowling mix of Barbara Stanwyck and Marilyn Monroe....
...Her mother, the Magnum photographer Inge Morath, met her father when she was shooting stills for The Misfits (1961), the ill-starred production Miller wrote for his then wife Marilyn Monroe, which ultimately...
...Dame Barbara Monroe, the single-minded, passionate leader of St Christopher’s Hospice, and John Caudwell, founder of Phones4U, for his outstanding examples of giving away precisely what he has accumulated...
...Davies the screenwriter creates an i-dotting, t-crossing scene with Hester’s mother-in-law (Barbara Jefford), just to show the heroine waging her battle of Britain, the one against hypocritical gentility...
...The ostensible subject is near-parodic – an emaciated girl in a Rio slum tries to make like Marilyn Monroe. But Lispector was a fierce and singular talent....
...“Florence was amazingly modest,” said Barbara Monroe, current chief-executive of St Christopher’s Hospice in London. “She was short and twinkly, with a wry sense of humour....
...She sported it at her typewriter and in the portrait adorning the book jacket of her record-breaking bestseller Valley of the Dolls, aware that the luxury Italian label, in which Marilyn Monroe was buried...
...Originally done on Broadway in 1966, in a production starring Barbara Harris and Alan Alda and directed by Mike Nichols, The Apple Tree was presented two springs ago by the Encores series in a bare-bones...
...There were plenty of big women stars during this period, with Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe making films that were box-office hits around the world....
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