{"id":158,"date":"2008-04-29T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T11:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattblake.wordpress.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2008-04-29T11:24:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T11:24:11","slug":"carlo-croccolo-and-marilyn-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/carlo-croccolo-and-marilyn-monroe\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Croccolo and&#8230; Marilyn Monroe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/europeanfilmreview.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/carlo-croccolo.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/europeanfilmreview.co.uk']);\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-160\" style=\"border:1px solid black;float:right;\" src=\"http:\/\/europeanfilmreview.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/carlo-croccolo.jpg\" alt=\"Carlo Croccolo\" width=\"230\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a>The Republica has just published a fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/2008\/04\/sezioni\/spettacoli_e_cultura\/croccolo-marylin\/croccolo-marylin\/croccolo-marylin.html\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.repubblica.it']);\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Italian actor Carlo Croccolo<\/a>, in which he details his short lived affair with Marilyn Monroe!<\/p>\n<p>Just to summarise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Their love affair lasted three months<\/li>\n<li>They met when Marilyn was at a low point in her life, in 1962, suffering from depression after the end of her affair with Yves Montand<\/li>\n<li>They met at a festival at Los Angeles, through Sammy Davis Jr<\/li>\n<li>Marily apparently suffered from cellulitis!<\/li>\n<li>When they were seeing each other she was drinking heavily<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to see how all these disparate cinematic fields eventually connect up together.  Croccolo is a very well know actor in Italy, who&#8217;s done very well on TV and picked up awards for his performances in Luigi Magni&#8217;s <strong>O Re <\/strong>(89), Claudio Bigagli&#8217;s <strong>Il guerriero Camillo <\/strong>(99).  To eurotrash fanatics, however, he&#8217;s probably better known as the director of the culty Spaghetti Western <strong>The Black Killer<\/strong> (71) and a supporting performer who appeared in &#8211; amongst many other films &#8211; <strong>After the Fox <\/strong>(66) &amp; <strong>Danger Diabolik <\/strong>(68)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republica has just published a fun interview with Italian actor Carlo Croccolo, in which he details his short lived affair with Marilyn Monroe!&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[35,153,218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}