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Marilyn Monroe

Best Article Sports

The Silent Season of a Hero

The complicated post-retirement life of Joe DiMaggio.

Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1966 35min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

A Beautiful Child

Memories of Marilyn Monroe.

Truman Capote Music for Chameleons Jan 1980 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

A Rumbling of Things Unknown

On Marilyn Monroe and the pains of post-war America.

Jacqueline Rose London Review of Books Apr 2012 40min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Marilyn

On photographing the former Norma Jeane Mortenson. “I think she was the best light comedienne we have in films today, and anyone will tell you that the toughest of acting styles is light comedy.”—Billy Wilder

Larry McMurtry New York Review of Books Mar 2011 10min Permalink