Marilyn Monroe & Robert Mitchum

I met Marilyn
A stunning collection of brand new exclusive interviews
chronicling Marilyn's life and beyond by those who knew her
Author: Neil Sean
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Prix: 15,81 €
Date de sortie: 18 septembre 2016
Broché 148 pages
Langue: anglais
Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-10: 1537196707
ISBN-13: 978-1537196701
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Description (quatrième de couverture):  Marilyn Monroe's career as an actress spanned 16 years. She made 29 films, 24 in the first 8 years of her career.
Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles General Hospital, her mother, Gladys, listed the fathers address as unknown. Marilyn would never know the true identity of her father- she became the legend that is Marilyn Monroe and to this day creates as much buzz in the media world as she did in her lifetime.
Having been a fan of the legend that is Marilyn Monroe since an early age, it seemed whoever I interviewed had either met / worked and known something about her during my journalistic career. As the years went on I noticed this even more to the point I was lucky enough to meet and interview some very famous people whom have not had their “Marilyn “stories told before.

I started with a trusty cassette player which along the way had me meeting the likes of Sir Lawrence Oliver, Charlton Heston and even Sir Norman Wisdom, what is fascinating when reviewing the tapes along with never broadcast interviews with Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney and Debbie Reynolds to name just a few is how revealing the whole conversations are.
I urge everyone to take a look at the book if you’re a true Marilyn fan as it will give you a rare insight into her final months and as Ricci Martin (Son of Dean) who met Marilyn many times told me “it’s the biggest story in the world of showbiz ever and yes I was party to it in many ways which is frightening“.
"I met Marilyn" will shock, delight and leave you with a brand new view of the movie icon and it’s been a pleasure to share this story of the blonde sex symbol who became a legend with you.
Neil Sean
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Extraits (cf article du Daily Mail ): 
Jack Lemmon  - co-star in "Some Like It Hot" in 1958
Lemmon used to live at silent movie star Harold Lloyd’s old house, which was next door to a well. He recalled: ‘One day I was coming back home and there’s this helicopter doing a low lazy circle above it. 'And there were these guys in funny suits and funny glasses, standing around watching Marilyn Monroe and JFK having a frolic in the pool. ‘So whatever stories you’ve heard about Marilyn, that one is true: it was a big affair for her and she was in a deep relationship with JFK. 'Whether he thought the same, we’ll never know. I think for sure she shouldn’t have got mixed up in the Kennedy clan. But she was the type of girl that looked straight into trouble and no one could ever advise her.’ Marilyn, as it turned out, wasn’t remotely embarrassed that he had seen her naked in the pool with the President.
In any case, Lemmon said with a laugh, he had already seen quite a lot of her beautiful body while making Some Like It Hot. He and Tony Curtis, who played cross-dressers in the classic film, had both liked Marilyn very much, he said, despite her continual lateness on set. ‘She was a very unhappy girl, though. She had a lot of problems, yet no one seemed to know what they were,’ said Lemmon. ‘Still, what she created — which in effect was Marilyn Monroe — must have been hard to conjure up day after day on a movie set.’ Time after time, he said, she would be dressed and fully made-up but wouldn’t come out of her dressing-room. It was as if there were a force field holding her back at the door. ‘I felt for her make-up man,’ he mused, ‘because she’d always find fault with her look and blame the make-up. Either that or she said she looked too fat. And, yes, she was fat at that stage because she was expecting a baby [which she later lost] though none of us knew that. She just loathed the way she looked on camera — but all I could see was one sexy girl in her prime. ‘I know the extras loved her because they got paid overtime when she failed to show up on time. Quite a few got new things like cars or paid off their mortgages on the back of her lateness. But when you look at her performance, she was wonderful — truly great. She steals every scene she’s in, so she was right to make us all wait until she got that “magic moment”.
Lemmon felt her erratic behaviour may have been linked to problems in her marriage. He described her husband, playwright Arthur Miller as ‘a bore’ and ‘a terrible misery’. ‘I felt Miller thought she was a crackpot. But she was the breadwinner, and not him. Even if he didn’t really like her, what could he do? He was on the Marilyn payroll.’ Lemmon kept in touch with the star and saw her several times in the months before her death. ‘She looked great, though totally different in many respects — slimmer and with different hairstyles. I think she was trying to recreate herself and move ahead with the times.’
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Norman Wisdom, on set in Pinewood in London in 1956
The unlikeliest of friendships blossomed while Marilyn was making The Prince And The Showgirl in 1956. But it wasn’t her co-star Laurence Olivier who connected with her — it was the British slapstick comedian. He’d been on set at the Pinewood lot, making another film, when he suddenly realised Marilyn was watching him. ‘In fact, she quite unintentionally ruined a couple of takes — she couldn’t help laughing, and on two occasions she was politely escorted off the set,’ he said. ‘We had a few cups of tea and she came to my dressing-room for a chat. She was a great girl and not at all depressed, like people paint her out to be.
‘The bigger story was that while she loved being a movie star, she also wanted a family. I think she was more fascinated with my little children, Nicolas and Jackie, than with me. 'She wanted to know all about them. And I’d always talk to her about them as I think it made her happy — she giggled when I told her the daft things they did.’
Wisdom’s fondest memory was of passing her one day in a Pinewood corridor. ‘It was lunchtime so it was crowded, but she caught hold of me, kissed and hugged me, and then walked away laughing. The people around me couldn’t believe it.’
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Charlton Heston, during Golden Globes in 1962
Just five months before she died, the actress attended the Golden Globes to receive an award — which was presented to her by Heston and fellow stars Rock Hudson and Stefanie Powers. Heston, then riding high as the star of Ben-Hur, remembered the occasion vividly, not least because she looked ‘stunning’.
‘She’d turned up with this guy Jose — a real user, the type who knows being pictured with Marilyn will do him a lot of good,’ he said. ‘He was far younger than her and that was a problem, because he had an eye for the ladies. But Marilyn, I think, liked the fact he paid her a lot of attention.
‘She was very lonely and felt she had no friends there, really. And by the time she came up to receive her award, she was steaming drunk.
‘She uttered just a few words and left the stage, leaving us all a bit lost for words. Then once I’d joined her backstage, she made a lunge for me and started to kiss me all over, thanking me again and again for the award. I tried to tell her it was nothing to do with me. ‘We sat down to chat and she kept placing her hand on my thigh and giving me the come-on look. ‘I started saying: “Look, Marilyn you’re a swell girl, and I think you’re beautiful . . .” ‘She stopped me right there and said: “But you don’t want me, do you?” I had to gently explain that I was happily married. ‘As the room was filled with some of the best-looking men in Hollywood, I wondered: “Why me? Was it because I wasn’t showing interest in her?”
'It always baffled me, but I did wish I could have helped her. I never saw her again. As she left the awards, she was virtually carried out. She looked so unhappy.’
The following day, Marilyn rang Heston to ask if he’d like a cameo role in her next movie, Something’s Got To Give. But he was shocked to discover that she had very little idea of what the movie was about.
After that, he said: ‘I had calls from her from time to time, but I never knew how serious she was about wanting to work with me. Anyway, I knew that it could be dangerous.’ Although Heston never had any intention of getting entangled with Marilyn, he regretted that they’d never made a film together. ‘I felt she was a good actress and had the potential to be an even greater one,’ he said.
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Eddie Fisher, at different parties
One man who wasn’t wild about Marilyn was the singer who’d married two stars in succession — Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor — and he’d learned quite a bit about the seamier side of Hollywood.
Marilyn, he told me, was ‘a user’ — reeling in men who could be useful to her, then discarding them when they’d served their purpose. ‘Marilyn Monroe was a serious player. She used people — she played them off, and I was a victim, too. When I first met her at the start of the Fifties, she made a beeline for me and asked me out on many occasions for a date. ‘But she wasn’t the “Marilyn” creation then — pretty, yes, but fake. And that was the problem. ‘The people who fascinated her were the likes of Ava Gardner and Liz [Taylor]. Why? Because they were genuinely beautiful girls. ‘Marilyn told me: “I know I’m a manufactured look — the blonde hair and make-up. I get it. But I also hope I give some hope to the ordinary girls like me who may not be the greatest beauties.” ’
The truth, says Fisher, is that Marilyn was insanely jealous of Liz Taylor’s beauty, and to a lesser degree her fame. He recalled one night in the early Sixties when the two beauties went to Las Vegas to see a performance by Frank Sinatra, who was then dating Marilyn. Also there was Fisher — then desperately trying to keep his crumbling marriage together. Taylor had recently fallen in love with Richard Burton, her married co-star in the film Cleopatra, but the affair was on hold because he refused to leave his wife. ‘So we were sitting together at a table — myself and Liz and some of Frank’s pals,’ said Fisher. ‘Marilyn arrived late, unsteady on her feet and already loaded with booze — but not enough to forget the impact she was having on the room. ‘It was always about her and the effect she could create when she entered a room...’ He laughed. ‘Watching Marilyn and Liz, two of the world’s most celebrated women, being cordial to each other was a great experience for me, as you’d have never guessed they loathed each other or indeed were any kind of rivals. [It was all] smiles and hugs: you got the impression they were the best of friends.’
But Marilyn, knowing full well that Taylor’s marriage was vulnerable, had something else on her mind. ‘She was between husbands,’ said Fisher. ‘So during the interval of the show, she was very friendly and kept kissing and touching me. ‘And then she dropped her bombshell: “Imagine what people would say if we were found out to be having an affair?” ‘She was deadly serious as she knew that this would take the flame of interest right off Elizabeth. ‘I scolded her, but she was very keen to pursue her suggestion and gave me her room number for later that evening. When I reminded her she was Sinatra’s date, she just shrugged and said: “If you like me, you will come along.” ’So did he? Fisher refused to elaborate. In any case, his marriage fell apart shortly afterwards, when Taylor left him for Richard Burton.
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Debbie Reynolds, at parties
Eddie Fisher’s first wife had much fonder memories. Marilyn was a bright girl, you know,’ said Reynolds, star of Singin’ In The Rain.
‘I think she applied herself to being what people wanted her to be. To me, she was a very kind soul, quiet and not at all movie-starish. ‘I liked her. But to someone else, she could be bawdy and fun, playing whoever she thought that person wanted her to be.’
Reynolds followed all the twists of Marilyn’s lurid love life, but never thought the worse of her. ‘We knew each other well because we attended the same church,’ she said. ‘Marilyn was very religious, which may surprise some people. Her faith was very important to her and I think that it helped her many times. 'She told me it was the one thing in her life that hadn’t let her down. She’d attend church looking very low-key: she could switch that “Marilyn” persona on and off.
‘After my marriage ended, she was concerned for me as a single mother with two children. I think having a child would maybe have saved her, because at 36 she was on her own. ‘I saw her two days before she died. She looked wonderful: super-slim and very girlish. So all the stuff you read about her being depressed and washed-up wasn’t true. Or if it was, she was doing a brilliant acting job of hiding it.
‘I’d warned her to be careful with the Kennedys because they just used people. I mean, Joe Kennedy [JFK’s father] was known for that.
‘She was a movie star and that was something both brothers liked. But once they’d used her like a tissue, they thought she’d just blow away. But she wouldn’t listen. ‘She was such a sweet and innocent girl, but she was used by men. For all her fame and beauty, they took advantage of her and she paid the ultimate price.’
Did Marilyn take an overdose after being dumped by JFK’s brother, Robert? Debbie shook her head. ‘I believe she was murdered because too many people were afraid the truth would come out,’ she said. ‘When you look at the evidence and the way people messed around in that vital time when she was dying — well, none of it stacks up. But we’ll never know the truth.’
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Joan Rivers, at parties
One night in the early Sixties, the comedienne could barely believe her luck: she was seated at a dinner party next to Marilyn. At the time, the bawdy New Yorker was trying to make her name as an actress.  ‘What I remember most is how tiny she was — not the big buxom blonde we see in the media,’ said Rivers.
‘We talked about the New York theatre and I asked her advice about acting agents. She was really helpful. Then Marilyn suddenly turned to me and said: “Men, they’re all the same. They’re just stupid and they like big boobs.” ‘I loved her for saying that, because she knew that’s what it was all about for her — boobs and nothing else. I realised she was far brighter than anyone ever thought.’
Marilyn was then in her mid-30s but Rivers recalls how she kept pointing out liver spots on her hands and saying she’d have to cover them up by wearing gloves because people would say she was getting old.
They also discussed homosexuals in showbusiness. ‘One thing about Marilyn,’ Rivers said, ‘was that she wasn’t a great gay fan: she loathed the idea that some men might not find her attractive. ‘I told her about my gay pals and she looked bemused. She had a hard time even believing Rock Hudson was gay.’
Like Debbie Reynolds, Rivers was convinced Marilyn was murdered. ‘Sure, she was a pill addict and had problems, but none of the story of her death stacks up. I blame the Kennedys: without a doubt, she got mixed up in some terrible trouble. ‘Given all she had going for her, why would she suddenly kill herself? She wasn’t the type to do it.’
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NB: un livre de témoignages de personnalités qui ont connu et / ou simplement rencontré Marilyn. Dans le même genre que They Knew Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe à Roxbury, été 1957
Photographies de Sam Shaw
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New banner of Spring /Summer 2024
Marilyn Monroe in Roxbury, summer 1957
Photographs by Sam Shaw

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Année: 2024 (mai - juin)
Marque/ Produit: magazine hebdomadaire français Paris Match
célébration des 75 ans du magazine
Pays: France
Modèles: Marilyn Monroe / Taylor Swift, Pelé / Kylian MBappé,
François Mitterrand / Emmanuel Macron, Simone Veil / les femmes
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Year: 2024 (may - june)
Brand/Product: weekly French magazine Paris Match
celebration of 75 years of the magazine
Country: France
Models: Marilyn Monroe / Taylor Swift, Pelé / Kylian MBappé,
François Mitterand / Emmanuel Macron, Simone Veil / Women
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A l’occasion de son 75ème anniversaire, Paris Match est en campagne nationale avec Havas Paris. Visible en affichage dans le métro parisien, en presse et en digital en mai et juin 2024, la série de visuels convie les personnalités d’hier en noir et blanc (Pélé, François Mitterrand, Marilyn Monroe, Simone Veil) qui s’informe sur leur pendant d’aujourd’hui en couverture de l’hebdomadaire (Kylian MBappé, Emmanuel Macron, Taylor Swift, les femmes…).
Grâce à une plongée dans les archives iconiques du journal, cette campagne valorise ainsi l’idée de transmission: "Nous avons mis en scène des héros du passé lisant le magazine d’aujourd’hui pour montrer que Paris Match est un média d’actualité incontournable pour comprendre le monde tel qu’il est." décrit Benoit Lozé, directeur de la Stratégie d’Havas Paris.
Pour le visuel réunissant Marilyn Monroe et Taylor Swift, Paris Match indique (sur sa page facebook) que "la star, plongée dans la lecture de Paris Match, démontre l'attrait de son contenu varié et captivant, offrant une lecture passionnante, enrichissante et immersive".
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On the occasion of its 75th anniversary, Paris Match is in a national campaign with Havas Paris. Visible on display in the Paris metro, in the press and digitally in May and June 2024, the series of visuals invites yesterday's personalities in black and white (Pélé, François Mitterrand, Marilyn Monroe, Simone Veil) who learn about their counterpart today on the cover of the weekly (Kylian MBappé, Emmanuel Macron, Taylor Swift, women…).
Thanks to a dive into the iconic archives of the newspaper, this campaign promotes the idea of ​​transmission: “We have featured heroes of the past reading today's magazine to show that Paris Match is a current media essential for understanding the world as it is." describes Benoit Lozé, Director of Strategy at Havas Paris.
For the visual bringing together Marilyn Monroe and Taylor Swift, Paris Match indicates (on its Facebook page) that "the star, immersed in reading Paris Match, demonstrates the appeal of its varied and captivating content, offering an exciting, enriching and immersive reading”.

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Marilyn Monroe à l'Ambassador Hotel de New York en mars 1955,
photographie de Ed Feingersh

Blog: Mars 1955 Marilyn dans N.Y.C
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Du 31 mai au 03 novembre 2024,  exposition Marilyn Monroe Le Secret de l'Amérique à Toulouse, France.
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Description: Il fallait un lieu aussi insolite que Les Espaces EDF Bazacle pour accueillir l’exposition événement sur Marilyn Monroe. Le Secret de l'Amérique te plonge dans un récit unique en son genre. Présentée l'an dernier à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, cette exposition présente un portrait inhabituel de Marilyn Monroe. C’est un véritable voyage qui emporte le visiteur à travers plus de 220 photographies, accompagnées d’anecdotes rares, inédites. Si bien sûr cet hommage aborde son enfance, sa carrière à Hollywood, ses différents mariages, sa disparition tragique, elle prouve que Marylin n’était pas seulement la plus grande star d’Hollywood, mais une jeune femme passionnée par les arts et les artistes le plus divers.
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Contenu:
- Plus de 220 clichés rares et inédits
- Plus de 220 anecdotes par David Lawrence
- Plusieurs objets insolites qui appartenaient à la star
- Reconstitution de la chambre à coucher de Marilyn

Lieu et adresse: Les Espaces EDF Bazacle, 11 Quai Saint-Pierre, 31000 Toulouse (en plein centre ville)
Horaires: pas d'information
Tarifs: Adulte (22 - 64 ans): 15 €
Jeunes (11 - 21 ans): 7 €
Seniors (+ 65 ans): 10 €
Enfants (- 11 ans) et personnes en situation de handicap : Gratuit
Durée de la visite: 1h30
Sites web: Maison Templar -  Espace EDF Bazacle - Réservations sur fever

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Du 11 mai au 11 août 2024,  exposition Hollywood Mon Amour à Lyon, France.
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Description: Produite par la Maison Templar, l’exposition sera l’occasion pour le public de se rapprocher de la magie de Hollywood. De se rapprocher de ses plus grandes stars.
Parmi elles: Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, James Dean, Leonardo Di Caprio, Lauren Bacall, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Marlène Dietrich, Clark Gable, Errold Flynn, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Steven Spielberg, Robert de Niro …
C’est à partir des années 1910 que Hollywood va accueillir à bras ouverts le cinéma, ses studios, ses producteurs, ses réalisateurs, ses scénaristes, ses agents, ses étoiles. Charlie Chaplin et Douglas Fairbanks sont les pionniers de cette nouvelle aventure du 7e art.

Lieu et adresse: La Chaufferie de l'Antiquaille, 1-6 rue de l'Antiquaille, 69005, Lyon, 05ème
Horaires: aucune information
Tarifs: aucune information
Téléphone: 06 64 44 64 97
Sites web: Les expos La Chaufferie Lyon et Maison Templar
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NB: La Chaufferie de l'Antiquaille est, pour le moment, temporairement fermée (tout comme le site internet indisponible). Aucune information relative à cette exposition n'est non plus disponible sur le site de la Maison Templar. Il est possible que l'exposition prévue soit donc annulée et /ou décalée à une autre date.

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En ce jour férié, un brin de bonheur pour le 1er mai
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On this public holiday, a bit of happiness for May 1st

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Happy May 1st

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