back to the picture @thecinemastrikesback - Tumblr Blog

Marilyn Monroe on the set of the film Some Like it Hot, 1958

Born on this day 100 years ago: nonpareil of celestial American Love Goddesses, the sublime Marilyn Monroe (née Norma Jeane Mortenson, 1 June 1926 – 4 August 1962)! For anyone London-based, the British Film Institute is marking the centenary of Monroe’s birth with a season of her films spread over June – July 2026. (Seeing the lush Technicolor likes of How to Marry a Millionaire and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes on the big screen sounds divoon!). Pictured: pensive shot of Monroe (as Sugar Kane, perhaps her definitive role and performance) during production of Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959).

filmgifs

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959 — dir. Billy Wilder

lipfilllers

boulevard-of-fame

Marilyn 💋 Monroe

as-warm-as-choco

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.