Marilyn Monroe News

THE OTHER DAY I spotted Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe driving down Spring Garden Road in Halifax.

How do you other people label your style? If you ask my family, it's "weird." If you ask my friends, it's "awesome." People call it "artistic." I really just call it "Theresa." What do you like to wear? Anything that looks like it has some personality to it.

"The French are glad to die for love..." So sang Marilyn Monroe in "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." The Swiss, however, are less cheerful about dead Frenchmen.

Marilyn Monroe makes her Oak Hill debut July 10 when the Martha Berry Museuma s a oeMovies on the Meadowa series continues with a oeSome Like It Hot.a The 1959 comedy also stars Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as two struggling musicians, Joe and Jerry, who witness what looks like the Saint Valentinea s Day massacre of 1929.

Vance Rowe You Be the Judge. She wasn't as legendary as Marilyn Monroe, but Judith Exner's 'alleged' affairs are stuff of fairy tales and spy novels.

The Tibbits Professional Summer Theatre of Coldwater has a storied history of reviving old, sometime forgotten shows in its historic opera house.

Anthony Marris, 11, of La Puente, Calif., lights a candle at a sidewalk shrine at the star of Michael Jackson on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles Friday.

A stunning exhibition of nearly 50 portraits by Cecil Beaton, one of the most famous photographers of the 20th century, captures the glamour and excitement of some of the world's greatest celebrities.

What this country needs is another great pinup.

We've lost it, haven't we? We don't do pinups anymore. The day when a kid -- actually, millions of kids -- tacked the same poster to his (or her) bedroom or dorm wall -- well, that's over. We have posters, and celebrities, but no consensus. Farrah Fawcett was the last one.

For a few decades, in predictable cycles, America had its reigning female sex symbol. It's easy to evoke an entire era with a flash of her pinup image: Betty Grable, smiling over her shoulder in that girdle of a bathing suit in the '40s. Marilyn Monroe, dress billowing over the sidewalk grate (or Marilyn in a thousand other memorable poses) in the '50s. Raquel 'One Million Years B.C.' Welch, in the '60s. And, of course, Farrah.

He owned a statue of Marilyn, studied Chaplin and married Elvis' daughter. It seemed the perennial man-child would cease to exist if the applause ever stopped.

Heres a poser for you movie buffs: What do the white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch and the fur coat, muff and hat worn by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane have in common? Beyond their obvious status as movie artifacts, theyre both part of a lawsuit filed in Johnson County by a 40-year-old Olathe businessman, Gregory J.

BRANSON, Mo. - It's not every day you get to see a show with Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, The Blues Brothers, The Temptations and Gretchen Wilson.

A former Olathe man's lawsuit over a failed effort to open a museum may force the sale of Hollywood memorabilia owned by actress Debbie Reynolds.

Here's your chance to win free tickets to the Victoria Theatre's classic summer Michelob Ultra Cool Films Series.

Designer jewellery worth 75 million has been recovered following the arrest of 36 men and women thought to be behind one of the the biggest gem heists ever.

What's turning me on this week? Summer love. Wet, hot, American summer love. The dog days of summer are just around the corner, and what could be hotter than gettin' busy with a summer fling? If there's one thing we've learned from Grease , it's that the best way to snag yourself a summer girl is to be a leather jacket wearing badass and to charm ...

VISITORS to the Walker are invited to follow in the footsteps of Marilyn Monroe and have their photograph taken in the style of Cecil Beaton.

Pothole Pictures continues its Summer series of classic films on Friday and Saturday June 19 and 20 with screenings of the Billy Wilder directed comedy "The Seven Year Itch." Marilyn Monroe, in one of her sweetest, sexiest roles, stars as the blonde beauty who moves in upstairs from middle-aged Tom Ewell, whose family is away for the summer, ...

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Atop my own list of 100 all-time favourite movies is that 1950 Bette Davis classic, "All About Eve." All my favourite movies star either Bette Davis or Winnie the Pooh.