𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚 𝐉𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐞 🦋

𝑰 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe for VOGUE magazine in “The Last Sitting” California, June, 1962. Photo by Bert Stern.

[admiringmarilyn]

“Success came to me in a rush. It surprised my employers much more than it did me. Even when I had played only bit parts in a few films, all the movie magazines and newspapers started printing my picture and giving me write-ups.” — 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲𝐧 to Ben Hecht in 1954. 🤍

𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐞 posing proudly in front of the billboard for 'As Young as You Feel' in August, 1951. 📷

[rare-marilyn]

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe during the filming of the bathtub scene of The Seven Year Itch, Los Angeles, California, 1954. Photo by Sam Shaw.

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[missnormajeanes]

A rare photograph of Marilyn Monroe, 1950.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe getting ready for a circus charity event at Madison Square Garden, New York, March 1955.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe during the filming of the bathtub scene of The Seven Year Itch, Los Angeles, California, 1954. Photo by Sam Shaw.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by John Vachon, 1953.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe, then Norma Jeane, photographed in California by Richard C. Miller, 1946.

[missnormajeanes]

Marilyn having breakfast in her hotel room, 1954

by Milton Greene

[summertimenoir]

Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (1955)

[summertimenoir]

I bought books to read. I sneaked scripts off the set and sat up alone in my room reading them out loud in front of the mirror. And an odd thing happened to me. I fell in love with myself—not how I was but how I was going to be. I used to say to myself, what the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe? And I’d answer, “Everything, everything.” And I’d walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen. - My Story (Marilyn Monroe, with Ben Hecht, 1974)

Norma Jeane Mortenson (aka Marilyn Monroe) June 1st, 1926 - ∞

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Marilyn Monroe

[ladybegood]

Marilyn Monroe costume sketch by Travilla for The Seven Year Itch (1957)

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller in New York, 1957. Photo by Sam Shaw.

[perfectlymarilynmonroe]

Outtakes of Marilyn Monroe taken by Milton H. Greene during their “Black Sitting” shoot in February, 1956. These served as costume test ideas for her character, Cherie, in Bus Stop (1956). They played around with various black stockings.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe during hair/makeup tests for Let's Make Love, December, 1959.