Niagara
Photos scène 11

Dernière scène de Rose Loomis (Marilyn Monroe):
sa fuite à la gare, mais elle est recherchée par la police,
elle panique et entre dans l'immeuble à carillon:
son mari, George Loomis (Joseph Cotten), caché, l'attend et la poursuit
avant de l'étrangler avec son foulard.

Niagara
Sur le tournage - scène 11 

 Marilyn Monroe sur le tournage
de sa dernière scène du film Niagara.

> Marilyn et le metteur en scène Henry Hataway


> Marilyn et son partenaire Joseph Cotten
 
 

> Marilyn et un figurant 
  

> Marilyn et son maquilleur Allan "Whitey" Snyder
Photographies de Jock Carroll



 



 

>> Marilyn et Steffi Skolsky

Washington Post

country: USA
date: 2008, August, 24
content: article

 

article complet sur washingtonpost 

He Dreamed of Flying to the Stars, And Practiced by Dancing With One

Just after he got his wings and on the eve of his 20th birthday, Navy aviator Len Cormier danced the night away with Norma Jeane Dougherty at Tommy Dorsey's Casino Gardens in Santa Monica, Calif. He loved to dance almost as much as he loved to fly.

It was a first date for the young pilot and the beautiful model-about-to-be-starlet, who had been introduced by a family friend. That night, they danced to big band music and walked along the midway, where Norma Jeane took aim at milk bottles.
"She was good at that," Mr. Cormier told his family. "I know I had a great time and seems like she did too."
On one of their dates, Mr. Cormier took Norma Jeane flying. "We did half rolls and slow rolls and loops," he recalled. "She's still the only civilian I've ever taken up in an airplane."

Before he left California for training in Florida, she asked his advice on a career move suggested by a 20th Century Fox executive. He disagreed.

"Norma Jeane asked me about changing her name to Marilyn Monroe, and I didn't think it was too good of an idea, because she would get mixed up with Marilyn Maxwell," Mr. Cormier said of the movie actress and entertainer who performed often with Bob Hope. "I don't know how many people remember Marilyn Maxwell these days, but it's kind of a 'How wrong can you be,' I guess."

Mr. Cormier -- who always spoke fondly of those early years, said his wife -- went on to become a Navy fighter pilot and an executive officer in an anti-submarine warfare patrol squadron. After leaving active duty in 1947, the Boston native received a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California at Berkley.

Eventually, Mr. Cormier's passion for flying took him to some heady places and brought him in contact with some of the top scientists in the space industry. He became an aerospace consultant and entrepreneur who designed a space van and worked feverishly to find funding for his craft, which would provide low-cost space travel.

Along the way, as one colleague once told him, he was "in the midst of people and organizations that were making history."

During the tense days of the Cold War, he was on the staff of the National Academy of Sciences. He attended the International Geophysical Year proceedings in 1957 and 1958, where U.S. and Soviet scientists were excited about new rocket technologies that made space exploration more than a distant notion.

Mr. Cormier, who spoke some Russian, was present at a reception in Russia on the October day in 1957 when the Soviets surprised everyone with the launch of Sputnik. It left an indelible impression on Mr. Cormier.

For one thing, he said he felt that there was a lot of psychological fallout with the Soviet launch. "However, in my opinion, this was not at all bad," he wrote in a posting on his Web site. "At the reception itself, I found it was almost immediately easier to communicate with some of the Russians -- as if some type of feelings of inferiority suddenly vanished."

Mr. Cormier -- who always spoke fondly of those early years, said his wife -- went on to become a Navy fighter pilot and an executive officer in an anti-submarine warfare patrol squadron. After leaving active duty in 1947, the Boston native received a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California at Berkley.

Eventually, Mr. Cormier's passion for flying took him to some heady places and brought him in contact with some of the top scientists in the space industry. He became an aerospace consultant and entrepreneur who designed a space van and worked feverishly to find funding for his craft, which would provide low-cost space travel.

Along the way, as one colleague once told him, he was "in the midst of people and organizations that were making history."

During the tense days of the Cold War, he was on the staff of the National Academy of Sciences. He attended the International Geophysical Year proceedings in 1957 and 1958, where U.S. and Soviet scientists were excited about new rocket technologies that made space exploration more than a distant notion.

Mr. Cormier, who spoke some Russian, was present at a reception in Russia on the October day in 1957 when the Soviets surprised everyone with the launch of Sputnik. It left an indelible impression on Mr. Cormier.

 The launch also was the beginning of Mr. Cormier's quest toward low-cost, reusable space vehicles. He worked at NASA, at the Los Angeles Division of North American Aviation and at North American Rockwell before forming his own companies. PanAero Inc. is his last firm.

As a charter member of the Department of Transportation's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee, he made recommendations and offered advice about the U.S. commercial space transportation industry.

He was always coming up with new approaches to space transportation, his family said. "He planned to be a pilot of his own spacecraft," said his wife of 29 years, Anne Greenglass.

During his career, he made improvements on satellites and had solid ideas on building launch systems. Some of his engineering approaches are "flying today," said Doug Postman, who met Mr. Cormier in 1983 while he was working as a consultant.
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"He was methodical in his approach to solutions," said Postman, who calls Mr. Cormier his mentor and friend. "He was a person who was ahead of his time because of the concepts and ideas he had."

Mr. Cormier was part of a small community of private entrepreneurs building affordable, reusable space vehicles. Funding was the biggest hurdle for Mr. Cormier's SpaceVan 2011. He tried but failed in 2003 to win the X Prize, a $10 million award offered to the first private team to fly a manned rocket into space.

Sergi Stepanenko, who lives in St. Petersburg, recalled Mr. Cormier's contacting him in the late 1990s about his ventures for "proposed space transportation, proposed space tourism and proposed space-based telecommunications."

They exchanged letters about ways they could work together. Stepanenko said in an e-mail that he was impressed by Mr. Cormier's boyish "admiration and excitement about the universe and a dream to explore it for himself."

Driven, yet always friendly, Mr. Cormier pushed his ideas and conceptual designs as far as he could for as long as he could, to government and private companies.

At 80, the great-grandfather of three renewed his pilot's license. But his dream of flying again, this time out of Earth's orbit, did not materialize. Leonard N. Cormier, a former Fairfax resident, died June 16 at age 82 of neck and head cancer at the Heartland Hospice in Wilmington, Del.

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Le magazine Télé K7, de la semaine du 17 au 23 septembre 1983, offrait sa couverture à Marilyn Monroe et un article intérieur de deux pages intitulé "Marilyn le film fatal" consacré aux Misfits.

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Niagara 
Vidéo extraits

Quelques séquences de Marilyn Monroe dans le film Niagara.

>> Extrait 1: Première scène de Marilyn
Rose Loomis en nuisette


>> Extrait 2: Chanson Kiss
Rose Loomis dans sa robe rose

>> Extrait 3: La scène de la plus longue marche
Rose Loomis en tailleur à veste rouge

>> Extrait 4: Le Meurtre
Rose Loomis en tailleur sobre noir

source: album de Dare Darlington sur flickr

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Inquiétude pour Tony Curtis

Article publié le 15 juillet 2010,
en ligne sur leparisien.fr

Budapest (hongrie), le 25 avril 2009

Tony Curtis, 85 ans, l’une des légendes de l’âge d’or d’Hollywood, inoubliable partenaire de Marilyn Monroe et Jack Lemmon dans «Certains l’aiment chaud», a été récemment hospitalisé pendant plusieurs jours pour une pneumonie. Son entourage précise que l’acteur est sorti de la clinique mais que son état de santé reste très préoccupant.
Les médecins de Tony Curtis, qui fut aussi le complice de Roger Moore dans la célèbre série télévisée «Amicalement vôtre», ont déclaré « qu’il reste extrêmement affaibli par la maladie ». Ces dernières années, Tony Curtis, qui se consacre notamment à la peinture, a vécu à Las Vegas, la capitale américaine des jeux. Il a publié voilà quelques mois un livre dans lequel il raconte ses souvenirs du tournage de «Certains l’aiment chaud». Un livre où il confiait qu’il avait eu une relation avec Marilyn et qu’elle était même tombée enceinte de lui.

Le magazine anglais The Sunday Times Magazine du 19 août 2007, consacrait sa couverture à une petite fille qui n'est autre que Marilyn Monroe enfant, titré "Unseen Norma Jeane" et publiait dans un article de sept pages de nouvelles photographies découvertes de Marilyn enfant et jeune fille, avec sa mère, des amies, ou encore son premier mari Jim Dougherty.

Le magazine Elle n°2205, de la semaine du 11 avril 1988, consacrait sa couverture à Marilyn Monroe, titré "Exclusif: Marilyn Monroe par Arthur Miller; pour la première fois, l'écrivain américain parle de celle qui fut sa femme" et un article intérieur de dix pages retranscrivant une interview qu'Arthur Miller accorda à la revue La Republica, à l'occasion de la sortie de l'autobiographie du dramaturge "Au fil du temps, Une vie", qui évoque longuement Marilyn, dont il affirme qu'elle était "le symbole de la coexistence entre le sérieux et la beauté, ce qui est très rare chez une personne", mais encore que "sa perfection donnait envie de la protéger". Il raconte sa rencontre avec la toute jeune starlette (par l'intermédiaire d'Elia Kazan sur le tournage d'As Youg As You Feel), à l'époque très attristée par le décès de son agent Johnny Hyde, puis de son enfance d'orpheline, ses états d'âmes et confidences, sa grossesse malheureuse, et la vie quotidienne qu'ils ont partagé ensemble.
(Scan source: merci à Emma)

Marilyn Monroe
L'icône hollywoodienne
Photographies
Collection: Destins de Stars
Auteur: Bertrand Meyer-Stabley

Date de sortie: août 2010
Broché 96 pages
Format 15x19 
Langue: français
Éditeur: Midi Libre
Prix éditeur: 4,50 Euros
Ou le trouver ? disponible en marchands de journaux (dans le Sud), sinon en commande sur journauxdumidi en ajoutant 1,90 € de frais de port.

Description: Un livre petit format, richement illustré, sur les moments clefs de Marylin Monroe au travers d'anecdotes étonnantes et pleines d'émotion.
Découvrez ce numéro de la nouvelle collection très "people", une collection qui retrace les parcours des plus grandes stars du XXème siècle. De Madonna à Romy Shneider, de Johnny Hallyday à Mickael Jackson, retrouvez les personnalités qui ont marqué notre époque et laissé une empreinte indélébile dans nos mémoires.
Cet ouvrage richement illustré, vous raconte les moments clefs de Marylin Monroe au travers d'anecdotes étonnantes et pleines d'émotion. Un livre en petit format, pratique à emporter partout avec soi !

Sommaire
1/ Premiers pas
2/ Son rude chemin vers la célébrité
3/ Les hommes de sa vie
4/ Les films "culte"
5/ La fêlure
En fin de livre: Filmographie, Citations "ils ont dit d'elle"

* Mon Avis en Bref...  8/10
Joli petit livre illustré à chaque page (photos en couleur et noir et blanc, de bonne qualité) qui reprend la vie de Marilyn par thèmes. Un livre que je conseille pour tout ceux qui ne connaissent pas encore Marilyn et qui veulent la découvrir à travers sa vie privée et sa carrière.

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