Pauline Boty’s Epitaph to Marilyn Sold at Christie’s
22 Friday Mar 2024
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Epitaph to Something’s Gotta Give – a 1962 painting by British pop artist Pauline Boty – was sold for £1,310,500 at Christie’s in London this week. It was one of three works inspired by Marilyn Monroe, whose influence I’ve discussed here – and the highest price reached for the late artist’s work to date. Continue reading
Cinema Revival: ‘The Letter’ in Columbus, Ohio
01 Friday Mar 2024
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The first big-screen adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s The Letter is showing in a new 35mm restoration – from the sole surviving nitrate print – at 2:30 pm tomorrow, March 2, at the Wexner Centre for the Arts at Ohio State University in Columbus, as part of this year’s Cinema Revival. Continue reading
Gone Ladies: Marilyn and Pauline Boty
13 Tuesday Feb 2024
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At left, Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon, 1959; and at right, Pauline Boty by John Aston, 1962
Pauline Boty was an English pop artist who created three paintings of Marilyn before her death from cancer, aged 28, in 1966. Although neglected for many years, Boty’s work is now being rediscovered – and in March, one of her Marilyn portraits will go under the hammer at Christie’s, as Joe Dziemianowicz reports for Barron’s Magazine. Continue reading
Darryl F. Zanuck: The Gentleman Preferred Blondes
18 Thursday Jan 2024
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Bernard F. Dick, a professor of English and communication at Fairleigh-Dickson University in New Jersey, has published many titles on the classical era of Hollywood film-making, covering a wide range of figures like producers Harry Cohn and Hal B. Wallis; directors Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Billy Wilder; actresses Claudette Colbert and Rosalind Russell; and the blacklisted Hollywood Ten. In his 2018 book, That Was Entertainment, Dick hailed the MGM musical as the genre’s ‘Gold Standard,’ reeling off a list of the studio’s all-time greats from The Wizard of Oz to Singin’ in the Rain. Continue reading
‘Man, Woman and Sin’ at MoMA
06 Saturday Jan 2024
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Jeanne Eagels with John Gilbert and Marc McDermott in Man, Woman and Sin
Jeanne Eagels’ last silent movie – and her only Hollywood shoot – Man, Woman and Sin (1927) is showing in a restored print as part of To Save and Project, the 20th annual film preservation festival at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) next Saturday, January 13th, at 1:30 pm. Continue reading
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