The Hollywood Entertainment Museum (H.E.M.) opened a major Marilyn exhibit on June 1st.
Many of the exhibited items were loaned from the Marilyn Remembered fan club.
On Friday night the H.E.M. had a party to celebrate the opening of the Marilyn
exhibit and we were in attendance.
I met up with Charles Casillo, the author of
The Marilyn Diaries and
he kindly posed for this pic with me. The painting of Marilyn on the
wall between us was made by Charles, himself! He is quite an artist as
well as a talented author.
The lady in the next picture is Penny McGuiggan. She co-starred with Marilyn
in Some Like It Hot. She was the trumpet player in the band!
And this is Gloria Pall. She was a pinup girl in magazines contemporary with
Marilyn. I couldn't believe it when she showed me what she had brought with
her... she had printed out the Memorial page from my web site!!! Wow, what a
compliment!
Free wine and apple martinis were available and, phew, a few of those
martinis and I was ready to call it a night.
I barely remember stopping on the way back to my room
to take this picture of Steff, Kristen, and Gia
sitting with Charlie Chaplin in the lobby of the Roosevelt.
Denise Weiss (6/15/2011) I see our gallery and photos on this page. Where are you located and did you come to the gallery this year for the opening of our exhibition/sale of original Marilyn photos by Barris, Stern, etc. . I bought a Marilyn lunch pail and CD at the Hollywood museum event!
