Jeanne Carmen

Until the End of the World
$2.99
If you are new to this film, be warned that it's long. It's also a film buff's movie, packed to it's cinematic gills with homages and references. Those who love film will feel bits and pieces of Once Upon the Time in the West, Claire's Knee (and most other New Wave films), Bergman (Ingrid and Ingmar) and on and on. It would take many viewings to tease out the complex web of annotations. And then, you would have to do it again for the various versions of the film that have been released over the years, each one longer than the last. However, if you are a lover of Rohmer you will be happy. My advice for the first timer is not to watch so seriously, but to just let it play on a lazy Sunday afternoon and relax. Maybe work a jigsaw puzzle while you watch it. The style allows the movie to become a small world for you to live in for a few hours, and one that you will miss when the credits roll.

Monster of Piedras Blancas [VHS]
$14.98
I cant beleive this isnt available on dvd yet""Its a great movie and surely deserves a dvd treatment.Please amazon,tell the studio.

We Remember Marilyn
$14.99
This DVD is so good that I'm almost beyond words. I've read every book about her and never thougtht that I'd see the film footage that's contained here. I can't help but wonder where they got it all and how they got it all. I'm just glad they did! This is a REAL treasure. My thanks to previous reviewers whose comments motivated me to buy this.

Jeanne Carmen: MY WILD, WILD LIFE as a New York Pin Up Queen
$32.95
Jeanne Carmen was a poor girl born to a single mother with her twin brother, Don. She developed quite early and left a terrible home life with an abusive stepfather for the life in New York City. There she would become an actress and a model. Regardless, she became friends with the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, and mobsters from Las Vegas. Of course, she writes about her relationship with Monroe which was just a friendship. Both had come from terrible upbringings and Carmen was just as beautiful as Monroe. Regardless, these two blonde women with the looks of the golden age of Hollywood would engage with some of the world's most powerful men. Finally, Carmen writes about what probably happened to Monroe on the last night of her life. Had I have known that Jeannie was sick and dying of Lymphoma on December 20, 2007 at 77 years old, I would have bought this book sooner. Jeannie was from Arkansas, a small town country girl, who made it big by leaving home at 13 years old. She writes candidly, openly, and quite honestly about her sexual relations with men like Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Kennedy brothers, and Vegas mobsters. She writes about her love of golf and golfing with Bob Hope. She also writes about Elvis Presley. They all died too young in her opinion. She ran away from Hollywood rather than building a career or face losing her life at the hands of Sam Giancana, the ruthless mobster, who she writes orchestrated Marilyn's death and probably the Kennedy brothers. I am glad that Carmen finally had the courage to write this book. She had spent years talking about Monroe and her suspicions. I am just sorry that she never had the career that she deserved. Unlike Monroe, Carmen ran to Arizona and became a loving mother to three children.