Marilyn 💕

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) was an American actress, model, singer, humanitarian and producer. The aim of 'OurGirlMarilyn' is to reveal the woman behind the worlds famous sex symbol and dispel the many myths that surround her.

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The world changed the day you were born.

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I like celebrating birthdays. I enjoy knowing that I am alive; and you can underline alive. - Marilyn Monroe June 1, 1926

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“If you ever thought about her at all, no matter who you were, if you had any heart at all, it would make you cry. She was everything beautiful and sad in this world. She lost babies and husbands and she drank and took pills and she had a light pouring out from under her skin, like her spirit was too bright for one persons body.” - Francesca Lia Block

“To understand Marilyn best, you have to see her around children. They love her, her whole approach to life has their kind if simplicity and directness.” - Arthur Miller

“She knows the world but this knowledge has not lowered her great and benevolent dignity, it’s darkness has not dimmed her goodness.” - Dame Judith Sitwell

“I thought I’d seen them all; being in the business I’d seen so many models and actresses. But I’d never seen anyone with that tone of voice, that kindness, that real softness.” - Milton Greene

“She was a beautiful child. What she has - this presence, this luminosity, this flickering intelligence… It’s so fragile and subtle, it can only be caught by camera. It’s like a hummingbird in flight; only a camera can freeze the poetry of it.”                   - Constance Collie

“She’s wonderful. Cosmological. I wanted to put a picture of her in my latest book, as a celestial object.” - Stephen Hawking

“I have an admiration for Marilyn Monroe that—no, it’s more than admiration. I have a love for that woman. For me she represents the highest point of femininity. There’s something childish and sincere and overwhelming with her, I never saw anyone who gave off so much charm and warmth and tenderness and femininity all at once.”  - Catherine Deneuve

“My sister was a very hard working person. She was very beautiful. She was very..wonderful to everybody. She loved people. She loved animals. And she was very serious about her work.” - Berniece Baker Miracle

“She is so wise. She is deep and she is soulful. And she is really creative. I think that one of Marilyn’s greatest qualities is her vulnerability and maybe one of her worst. But she stood up for her power and her talent. She was way ahead for her time. I just think she is really special. We all do.” - Kelli Garner

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                                                                     Happy 90th Birthday!                                                                         Marilyn Monroe                                                                             June 1, 1926                                                                  Norma Jeane Mortenson 

“I was very, very drawn to her. To me, she was like a golden child. She radiated light and vulnerability. She used to gravitate to me at parties because she knew I was not very secure either. She was fragile. I was very touched by her.” - Jane Fonda

“I think Marilyn is bound to make an almost overwhelming impression on the people who meet her for the first time. It is not that she is pretty, although she is of course almost incredibly pretty, but she radiates, at the same time, unbounded vitality and a kind of unbelievable innocence. I have met the same in a lion-cub, which my native servants in Africa brought me. I would not keep her, since I felt that it would in some way be wrong…I shall never forget the almost overpowering feeling of unconquerable strength and sweetness which she conveyed. I had all the wild nature of Africa amicably gazing at me with mighty playfulness.” -  Isak Dinesen

“Marilyn was a field of wild flowers, a gamboling puppy in the back yard, a pink sunset in June. She was glorious, and we had to look. Is that talent? I don’t care. It was magical.” - Marlon Brando

“She was the realest person I ever met.”  -Evelyn Moriarty

“Well, I thought she was wonderful. She was a gal who was late on the set, but at the same time, she was getting ready for Marilyn to be on the screen. She wanted her to be perfect at all times. Once she was there, she was cooperative. She was wonderful. She never gave anybody any trouble. ”  - Donald O’Connor

“Fifty years on, we’re still watching her movies and talking about her. That’s not a dumb woman- trust me.” - Lauren Bacall

“A warm human being, impulsive and shy, sensitive and in fear of rejection, yet ever avid for life and reaching out for fulfillment.“ Lee Strasberg 

“She always was for me what every woman, not only me, must dream to be. She was gorgeous, charming, fragile.” -Brigitte Bardot

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A very rare photo of Marilyn sporting her “Zelda Zonk” incognito look c. 1960s

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Marilyn by Bob Beerman in 1951.

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Marilyn and Clark Gable at a press conference for The Misfits in July 1960.

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Marilyn Monroe on “Person to Person”, 1955

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Remembering, Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962).

“Hold a good thought for me.”

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Marilyn Monroe on the set of River of No Return (1954)

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Marilyn Monroe photographed in 1956.

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Marilyn Monroe in Reno, photographed by Don Dondero, 1960.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed on the set of The Seven Year Itch (1955).

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Marilyn Monroe photographed on the set of The Misfits (1961).

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Marilyn Monroe as Harriet in As Young as You Feel (1951)