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Marilyn Monroe danced with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, at the April in Paris Ball held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, 1957.

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Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller at the “April in Paris” Ball, 1957. She chats with banker and financier, Winthrop Aldrich. Photos by Peter Stackpole. The ball benefited the French Hospital as well as several philanthropic French-American organizations in New York City. This was one of their few scheduled public appearances in 1957 as the couple was desperate to start a family and settle down.

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Marchesa Luisa Casati in a fountain dress made of wires and lights by couturier Paul Poiret, at the Beaumont Ball held by the Count Etienne de Beaumont in Paris, 1924.

The Beaumont Ball in Paris 1924 (an event with a guest list so selective that Gabrielle Coco Chanel was excluded for being too ‘trade’), was a homage to Pablo Picasso and the Cubists. The dress made entirely from wires and lights, it was too wide for the entrance to Beaumont’s ballroom: the artist Christian Bérard, who witnessed Marchesa Luisa Casati attempting to squeeze through the doorway, reported that she collapsed like a “smashed zeppelin”. (x)

De Beaumont’s fêtes reached an apex in 1924 with the ballet series Soirées de Paris, which took place at the Théâtre de la Cigale in Montmartre from May 17 to June 30, 1924. An homage to the review of the same name by Guillaume Apollinaire, the series included the scandalous ballet Mercure, which featured music composed by Erik Satie, sets and costumes designed by Pablo Picasso, and choreography devised by Léonide Massine. (x)

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Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller at the April in Paris Ball, 1957.

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Marilyn Monroe danced with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, at the April in Paris Ball held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, 1957.

Peter Stackpole/Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock

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Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller at the April in Paris Ball held in New York City, April, 1957. She’s wearing a mermaid Norman Norrell dress she was spotted in at the after party for the premiere of the film Baby Doll held in December, 196.

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Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller at the "April in Paris" Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria (1957). The ball benefited the French Hospital as well as several philanthropic French-American organizations in New York City. This was one of their few public appearances that year as they was desperate to settle down and start a family.

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Marilyn Monroe during a mini-interview at the April in Paris Ball, 1957.