Posts Tagged with Marilyn Monroe

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Creative Conversations: Andrew O’Hagan

Novelist and essayist Andrew O’Hagan discusses his career, including novels The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, and The Illuminations.

In 2003 Andrew O’Hagan was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 ‘Best of Young British Novelists’. In 2004 he edited The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta, a collection of various writers’ accounts of Kolkata, and in 2008, a book of Robert Burns’ poetry, A Night Out with Robert Burns. His recent novels are The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe (2010), the ‘memoir’ of the Maltese Terrier given for Christmas 1960 by Frank Sinatra to Marilyn Monroe, and The Illuminations (2015), which intertwines the stories of an elderly woman losing her memories in Ayrshire with the plight of her grandson, a soldier struggling to forget his experiences fighting in Afghanistan. The Illuminations was longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

Andrew O’Hagan is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

As part of the on-going Creative Conversation speaker series novelist and essayist Andrew O’Hagan comes to campus to chat about his writing. Bring your lunch and burning questions!

Sponsored by the Ferguson Bequest and programmed by Creative Writing at University of Glasgow.


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The free event is taking place on March 18th 2019 13.00 – 14.00 At the Glasgow University Memorial Chapel. Scotland, United Kingdom G12 8QQ

https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/chapel/



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HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUGH MARLOWE

We’re wishing actor Hugh Marlowe a very happy Birthday!
Hugh Marlowe (January 30th 1911 – May 2nd 1982) was an American stage, film, television and radio actor.
Marilyn fans will recognise him from the 1950 old Hollywood classic “All About Eve” and he also had a smaller role in the 1952 comedy “Monkey Business.”

L-R Anne Baxter, Hugh Marlowe, Marilyn Monroe, George Sanders, Celeste Holmes, Bette Davis and Gary Merrill in “All About Eve.”

Happy Birthday Hugh!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID WAYNE

Happy Birthday David Wayne! (January 30th 1914 – 9th February 1995.)

David Wayne was an American stage and screen actor with a career spanning over 50 years. Marilyn fans will recognise him as being her most frequent co-star, sharing the billing with Marilyn in no less than 4 of her movies:
“As Young As You Feel”
“We’re Not Married!”
“O Henry’s Full House”
“How To Marry A Millionaire”

With little or no screen time shared in “As Young As You Feel” and “O Henry’s Full House,” they were on screen lovers in “We’re Not Married!” and “How To Marry A Millionaire.”

Wayne was quoted as saying (on her performance in “How To Marry A Millionaire”)
“Negulesco (the Director) was very good with her and handled her beautifully. Of course she was always late, but I don’t think either Betty Grable or Lauren Bacall minded her. They were tough old pros and knew their business. There again, I also recall Marilyn being quite capable in her scenes with the other two girls. I wasn’t necessarily in the scene with them, but I’d sit next to Negulesco and watch the three of them work and by that time I thought that Marilyn had got a little technique under her belt.”

Happy birthday David!

Monroe and Wayne on the set of “How To Marry A Millionaire.”
Monroe and Wayne on the set of “We’re Not Married.”
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REMEMBERING HORRACE WARD

Today we have learned of the passing of Fleet Street photographer Horace Ward.

Ward was one of the many photograhers to capture Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller during their final press conference in London, England in 1956 whilst they were there shooting and promoting “The Prince And The Showgirl.” The stunning shots show the newely married couple departing on a plane back to New York.



Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time.