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Happy Anniversary to Marilyn and Joe! On the 14th of January, 1954, Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio were married in San Francisco in the city hall. It was a small ceremony and lasted only 3 minutes (began at 1:48pm). The only guests that attended the ceremony were family and friends of Joe’s. The guests included: Lefty and Jean O’Doul, and his brother Tim DiMaggio and wife. Unfortunately their marriage only lasted until October the same year, however they stayed close throughout Marilyn’s life.

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Marilyn Monroe behind the scenes of the film “The Misfits” (1961). This photo is from Ralph Robert’s collectionWhen Marilyn saw this photo she told Ralph “It’s the only real smile I’ve had on this whole film”. Her smile and happiness means everything to me🥺🤍

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene, 1955🤍🕊

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Marilyn Monroe at the premiere of “The Diary of Anne Frank” on October 5th, 1955. Susan Strasberg played the role of Anne Frank.

In Susan’s book “Marilyn and Me” she recalls: “Marilyn was early to the opening night of The Diary of Anne Frank - unheard of; she was never early.”

“Marilyn was very quiet, taking pictures with me for the Life photographer but staying in the background as much as she ever could, and afterward as she entered Sardi’s I heard her exclaim to columnist Earl Wilson “Wasn’t Susie wonderful?”

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On the set of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Marilyn sits and poses while co-star Jane Russell draws a portrait of her. The second picture is the final result💕

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Video Footage of Marilyn Monroe presenting at the 23rd Academy Awards 1951. Marilyn read the nominees for ‘Best Sound Recording Category’. Thomas T Moulton won the award for his work in “All About Eve”.

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On the 29th of March, 1951, The 23rd Academy Awards were held at the RKO Pantages Theatre. Marilyn attended and presented the Best Sound Recording Category. The nominees were:

All About Eve – Thomas T. Moulton

Cinderella – C. O. Slyfield

Louisa – Leslie I. Carey

Our Very Own – Gordon E. Sawyer

Trio – Cyril Crowhurst

Marilyn presented the award to Thomas T. Moulton for his work on the film “All About Eve” which Marilyn had a supporting role in🖤

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On the 27th of August, 1954, Marilyn filmed the song and dance number “Heatwave” for the film ‘There’s No Business Like Show Business’. Marilyn’s costume for this number was designed by William Travilla. It was said that Marilyn didn’t like the song and her second husband Joe DiMaggio wasn’t a fan of her costume.

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In honour of #NationalDogsDay, here is a post about all of the dogs Marilyn had over the years of her life.

Tippy- Tippy was a black and white dog given to little Norma Jeane Mortenson (later Marilyn) by her foster father, Albert Wayne Bolender. Every day, Tippy would go to school with Norma Jeane. He would wait and play with her at recess.

Ruffles - Ruffles lived with Norma Jeane when she lived with the Godard family. Norma Jeane and her "sister" Beebe shared the spaniel as their pet, around 1940.

Muggsie - Muggsie was collie given to Norma Jeane by her first husband, James Dougherty, in the late 1940's. Norma Jeane loved taking care of and playing with Muggsie

Josepha - Josepha was a Chihuahua Marilyn owned at the time she was signed to a movie contract by Columbia pictures in 1948.

Hugo - Hugo was a Basset hound who lived with Marilyn and her third husband, Arthur Miller, at their East 57th street apartment in New York in the late '50's.

Maf - Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn a little white poodle as a gift. Marilyn named the dog Maf, as a humorous reference to Sinatra's alleged connection with the mafia.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by J.R Eyerman (1951) 💕

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Marilyn Monroe photographed in ‘The Jump Shoot’ by Philippe Halsman, 1959 for Life Magazine. During his lifetime, Halsman photographed many celebrities jumping as a side project.

“When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears” - Philippe Halsman

I have always adored these photos of our girl. She looks like a child, I only see Norma Jeane🥺💕

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I’ve seen a lot of people talking about these pictures lately saying that Marilyn was pregnant during this time. That is incorrect. Marilyn was NOT pregnant here!!! Marilyns final pregnancy was during the filming of ‘Some Like It Hot’ in 1958. The other times she was pregnant was in 1956 during ‘The Prince and The Showgirl’ and 1957. Marilyn suffered with a condition called Endometriosis which is defined as “A disorder in which tissue that normally lines the uterus grows outside the uterus.” A symptom of this condition is BLOATING of the stomach, which we can clearly see in these photographs. As someone who suffers from PCOS, I also deal with bloating that occurs often. It’s so inspiring to see Marilyn looking so beautiful and natural when this is something I am self conscious about. Marilyn helps me to be more confident with this. I hope this post helps somehow, I think we should normalise the beauty of our stomaches more often! 💕🤍✨

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ed Clark at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, 1950. 🌾🌻

In a 1999 interview with Digital Journalist, Ed Clark describes this shoot with the young and still almost unknown actress, Marilyn Monroe:

“She was almost unknown then, so I was able to spend a lot of time shooting her,” Clark recalled. After all, it was still early in her career, and she’d only just begun to gain attention: Three months before this shoot, she appeared as a crooked lawyer’s girlfriend in The Asphalt Jungle; two months later, she had a small role as an aspiring starlet in All About Eve.

“We’d go out to Griffith Park [in Los Angeles] and she’d read poetry. I sent several rolls to LIFE in New York, but they wired back, ‘Who the hell is Marilyn Monroe?'” (Three years later, Marilyn appeared on the cover of LIFE in a now-famous Clark photo, posing with her Gentlemen Prefer Blondes co-star, Jane Russell.) - Credit to Life Magazine.

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30th March, 1955: Marilyn attends a charity event for the opening of the Ringling Brothers Circus by riding in on a pink elephant. This event took place at Madison Square Garden and was hosted by Mark Todd who invited Marilyn. The event’s theme was “dream circus” and was raising money for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation.

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August 11, 1961 - Marilyn received a letter from a young 14 year old girl dying of bone cancer requesting for a photo of Marilyn and her Maltese Terrior, Maf. The photoshoot was held at Beverly Hills Hotel and the pictures were taken by Eric Skipsey. The young girl received the photos two weeks later. Marilyn had written on them “From Marilyn Monroe to Barbara Heinz. With Love”💓

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Marilyn Monroe in ‘The Bird Sitting’ photographed by Cecil Beaton on the 22nd of February, 1956. These photos were taken in a suite in the Ambassador Hotel in New York City.

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Marilyn Monroe/Norma Jeane photographed by Scottish photographer Bill Burnside, 1948. This shoot was taken at Santa Monica Beach. Bill worked with Marilyn on several photo sessions between the years 1946-1948.

“When Marilyn first met Bill, back in 1946, he asked her if she would be interested in modeling for a friend of his. When she agreed and went out to Malibu, she was greeted by the man Paul Hesse, who told her she was “too fat.” This made her very upset, and to cheer her up, Burnside snapped some photos of her on the beach. “She loved the camera. It soothed her,” Burnside later said”- taken from Before Marilyn: The Blue Book Modeling Years