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Marilyn Monroe

July 2024

  • A color-tinted photo of three smiling white men wearing casual suits and standing in a row, looking in the same direction, in front of a pink rosebush and a white picket fence.

    ‘They always got away with it’: new book reveals Kennedys’ shocking treatment of women

    Maureen Callahan’s eye-opening exposé looks back at the Kennedy men and the women they ‘destroyed’, digging into a long and grisly history

June 2024

  • Hollywood homage … Genevieve Gaunt as Marilyn Monroe in The Marilyn Conspiracy.

    The Marilyn Conspiracy review – suspects and detectives convene for Monroe mystery

  • An overhead of a Spanish colonial-style house surrounded by greenery

    Marilyn Monroe’s Los Angeles home named a historic cultural monument

February 2024

  • Don Murray and Marilyn Monroe in the 1956 film Bus Stop. He plays a naive cowboy who falls for her saloon bar singer.

    Don Murray obituary

    Hollywood actor who was Oscar-nominated for his first role, playing opposite Marilyn Monroe, and later became a TV star

November 2023

  • Kate Moss in pink vest top, leaning against a white wall with a string of coloured lights behind her Kate Moss, 1993 (photo) by Day, Corinne (1962-2010); Private Collection; (add.info.: British Vogue, Underexposed, Kate Moss, June 1993); Estate of Corinne Day. All rights reserved 2023. Please note: This photograph requires additional permission prior to use. If you wish to reproduce this image, please contact Bridgeman Images and we will manage the permission request on your behalf.

    40 outrageous photos that changed fashion, from teenage Kate Moss to Twiggy in a mini and Lady Gaga’s meat dress

    Leigh Bowery provoked, Dior’s elegant New Look inspired, Katharine Hamnett’s slogan T-shirts challenged: these are the shots that made the world see clothes differently

September 2023

  • The sound of music cast

    From Audrey Hepburn to Zac Efron: a brief history of dubbed singing in Hollywood

  • Aerial view of Marilyn Monroe's former home in Brentwood, Los Angeles.

    Demolition of Marilyn Monroe’s house halted after widespread outrage

July 2023

  • gregg wallace in a factory, grinning

    The week in television: Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat; Reframed: Marilyn Monroe; Dreaming Whilst Black; Special Ops: Lioness – review

    Gregg Wallace fronts a biting cost of living satire; a starry sorority reclaims Marilyn Monroe; and a fable of modern black Britishness leaves you wanting more
  • Reframed: Marilyn Monroe … you might not know her as well as you think you do.

    TV review
    Reframed: Marilyn Monroe review – a persuasive look at the icon’s ferocious intelligence

    She read James Joyce. She wrote about predatory men. She questioned pay disparity. Jessica Chastain narrates an all-female documentary about Monroe’s overlooked intellect

    • Eve Arnold: To Know About Women review – legends tired, hungover and flashing their rears

    • Brothels, bartenders and film stars: Eve Arnold’s women – in pictures

    • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at 70: Marilyn Monroe remains a dazzling star

June 2023

  • Marilyn Monroe shot close up, leaning out the window of a truck, wearing a stetson hat, looking thoughtful and biting a fingernail

    The big picture
    The big picture: Marilyn Monroe unravels in the desert

    Photographer Eve Arnold was there to document the making of The Misfits ​but ended up capturing the collapse of the star’s marriage to Arthur Miller

December 2022

  • Adam Driver in White Noise.

    White Noise to It’s A Wonderful Life: the best films to watch on TV over Christmas

    Adam Driver stars in an action-packed adaptation of Don DeLillo’s great American novel, while Frank Capra’s smart twist on A Christmas Carol offers a lesson in the season’s true spirit

October 2022

  • Martha Gill

    If Blonde is a feminist film, why is Marilyn Monroe still being exploited?

    Martha Gill
    The movie, and TV shows like it, merely add women’s mental and physical suffering to the misogynist mix

September 2022

  • BLONDE<br>Blonde. L to R: Xavier Samuel as Cass Chaplin, Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe and Evan Williams as Eddy G. Robinson Jr.. Cr. Matt Kennedy / Netflix © 2022

    Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is betrayed by Blonde

    Andrew Dominik’s explicit, button-pushing take on the life of the superstar uses shock tactics to replace insight and depth
  • Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Netflix

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Blonde review – a hellish vision of Marilyn and her monsters

    Andrew Dominik’s gothic portrait of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe – an extraordinary Ana de Armas – is a fever dream of childhood trauma haunting adult life

    • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
      Blonde review – Ana de Armas gives her all as Monroe in otherwise incurious film

    • First look review
      Blonde review – Some like it rotten: Monroe biopic is moving, explicit and intensely irritating

    • ‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set

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