Marilyn Monroe

rare photos and good thoughts

[alwaysmarilynmonroe]

The Misfits (1961)

[20th-century-man]

Norma Jeane Dougherty (née Mortenson) / 19-years-old and a year away from becoming Marilyn Monroe / photo by David Conover, July 1945.

[manyother]

Ellen Shaw (daughter of photographer Sam Shaw), Marilyn Monroe, Hedda Rosten and her daughter Patricia in the resort town of Amagansett (Long Island). Photo by Sam Shaw, 1956.

Hedda Rosten (1915-1984) was an American writer and screenwriter, best known as one of Marilyn Monroe's closest friends and confidants.

[missnormajeanes]

"You could say that Laura Palmer is Marilyn Monroe, and that Mulholland Drive is about Marilyn Monroe, too. Everything is about Marilyn Monroe."

-- David Lynch interviewed in Vanity Fair, 2017

[missnormajeanes]

a rare new pose from The Seven Year Itch promo shoot 💖

(photo acquired by a collector in the Marilyn Remembered Facebook Group & posted with permission)

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[missnormajeanes]

Marilyn Monroe wardrobe photo for The Seven Year Itch, 1955

(just saw this pop up on Ebay!)

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[infinitemarilynmonroe]

Marilyn Monroe and Carleton Young at NBC Radio, 1952.

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Feingersh at the Ambassador Hotel in New York City, March 1955.

[missnormajeanes]

rare candid photos of Marilyn Monroe 

summer, 1958

source.

[missnormajeanes]

vintage display of Marilyn Monroe air fresheners, c. 1954

via Hakes

[normajeanebaker]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Richard Avedon, 1957

[bebelestrange]

Marilyn Monroe in “Bus Stop” - Milton Greene photo

[thecinamonroe]

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

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