Marilyn Monroe
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Hollywood whirlwind: Prowse, Sinatra & the six-week engagement
She fell for Sinatra, dazzled Hollywood, but wouldn’t trade her spotlight for a ring — no matter how big
One Film Two Takes: Blonde
Gratuitous sexual violence and sketchy creative licence makes this movie difficult viewing
Marilyn Monroe photos spark buzz ahead of Polish auction
Marilyn Monroe aficionados are flocking to Warsaw to see pictures of the bombshell and other stars snapped by celebrity photographer Milton Greene.
Court frees Monroe’s image for the world
It is a decision one imagines the Hollywood star might well have embraced: Marilyn Monroe, according to a new legal ruling, belongs to everybody.
Fifty years on, everyone still wants a piece of Marilyn
The first thing you notice when you see Marilyn Monroe’s gloves in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History is how small her hands were.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes star Jane Russell dies at 89
Hollywood siren shot to fame in Howard Hughes’s film <em>The Outlaw</em>.
Hollywood siren Jane Russell dies at 89
The Hollywood siren, who shot to fame in Howard Hughes’s film <em>The Outlaw</em>, died at her home in California.
No eternity with Monroe as crypt auction fails again
A second attempt to sell a crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe’s final resting place has failed, with not a single bid received for the burial spot.
Stephen Hawking to spend time in SA
He’s been described as science’s first real rock star and the most famous physicist never to win a Nobel Prize. He knows black holes and p-branes inside out and he’s headed for…
Porn firm sells the Hendrix sex experience
The exploitation of the private lives of celebrities, even dead ones, by the United States entertainment industry is again under the spotlight after a Los Angeles company…
Marilyn Monroe sex film to be kept private
A 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for ,5-million, the…
‘Life’ photographer captured famous moments
Allan Grant, a Life magazine staff photographer who captured such historic moments as the atomic bomb tests in the Nevada desert to some of the last photos of Marilyn Monroe…
Ledger died of prescription drug abuse, say officials
Australian actor Heath Ledger’s death was an accident caused by the abuse of prescription drugs, six of which were found in his body, the New York City medical examiner’s office…
‘Norman was a working man. Lord, did he work’
Norman Mailer would probably not have wanted an old man’s death. He would have preferred some other way — an accident, a bar fight or a lover’s brawl — so that his death, like…
Larger than life
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews the latest movie to become a stage musical to be then translated back to film in musical form, Hairspray