Marilyn Monroe and Rory Calhoun in a promotional photo for River...
Marilyn Monroe and Rory Calhoun in a promotional photo for River of No Return, 1953.
Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits, 1960.
Marilyn Monroe on the set of The Misfits, 1960.
Marilyn Monroe photographed by John Florea, 1954.
Marilyn Monroe photographed by John Florea, 1954.
Marilyn Monroe & Marlon Brando at The Rose Tattoo premiere,...
Marilyn Monroe & Marlon Brando at The Rose Tattoo premiere, 1955.
Marilyn, walking through Central Park with Sam [Shaw], was...
Marilyn, walking through Central Park with Sam [Shaw], was explaining Strasberg's concept of "sense memory" and its use to an actor, especially in improvisation. She said, "I'm doing Anna Christie and I'm feeling rain, you get the idea?"
"Show me an improvisation," Sam countered, "Right now."
Marilyn picked up a copy of the New York Times and walked over to a nearby park bench where a young couple were engrossed in conversation.
She sits beside them, apparently oblivious to them and their conversation. She unfolds a newspaper, creating a small personal world. They pay no attention to her and continue their dialogue. The young man is proposing marriage. Marilyn is totally absorbed in the paper.
When the "exercise" was completed, Marilyn turned to them, explained her purpose and asked them for permission to use the photos. They agreed.
- Marilyn Among Friends
Milton and Marilyn described their first meeting to...
Milton and Marilyn described their first meeting to Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person early in 1955. Aware of Milton's reputation, she had agreed to a sitting despite her bandaged leg. She turned an ankle and tore some ligaments while on location for River of No Return, and Joe DiMaggio, her current beau, had bundled her back to Hollywood. She met Milton on the Twentieth Century-Fox lot, expecting something like the Abraham Lincoln of photography. "Why, you're just a boy," she told him.
"You're just a girl," he replied. She giggled, he smiled that smile. Over the next few days he posed her in an opulent setting caressing a balalaika, suggesting languor with a mink stole and nudity under a long black sweater he had borrowed from [his wife] Amy. Out in Laurel Canyon he had her nestle in the crotch of a gnarled old tree and perch at the base of a scabrous cliff. There was nothing vulgar about the pictures. ("Milton never had to show nudity or sex," says Jesse Rand. "You just knew it was there when he got finished with the job.") When Marilyn was stripping to put on Amy's sweater, Milton said, "Wait a minute," and turned his back. "I don't mind," she told him. "I do," Milton replied. That kind of respect was new to her. It bowled her over. The pictures reflect it. They brought out an extraordinary depth, a vulnerability.
"She had gone through all the photographers who did the crappy pinuppy stuff," says John Springer. "That is what she did, so she did it, but Milton made her do more. He photographed her as if she were Garbo and she understood this and this was the affirmation she needed."
When Milton sent her a couple of rejects from the sitting, she responded with two dozen red roses and called to say that they were the most beautiful pictures she had ever seen. "Whatever she saw in Milton's pictures, she wanted to be that," said Jule Styne, the composer of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes who convinced Fox to cast Marilyn instead of Betty Grable in the film version of his musical. "He captured everything that Marilyn was on film. I used to watch him shoot. It was one, two, three, and he had it. He knew that image. It's like a painter, like he created that image." A collaboration had begun.
- Milton's Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe photographed by George Barris, 1962.
Marilyn Monroe photographed by George Barris, 1962.
Hello , I recently learned its from a movie still of...
Hello , I recently learned its from a movie still of Niagara… Just wanna share it with ya , have a nice day
How often do you watch her movies?
Once in a while, like every few weeks I guess? I mostly watch GPB and SLIH, they're my top favorites!
(I watch movies a lot in general, so I like to watch ones I haven't seen yet, especially classics like The Breakfast Club which I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen yet either. However, there are times when I just want to watch my favorite movies, like the Ace Ventura series, the Home Alone series (THE ONES AFTER THE 2ND FILM ARE NONEXISTENT TO ME), Gilda, Hands Across The Table, Inglourious Bastards, and the list goes on! I just really love movies lol.)
Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe in a promotional photo for...
Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe in a promotional photo for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1952.
Marilyn Monroe photographed by Anthony Beauchamp, 1951.
Marilyn Monroe photographed by Anthony Beauchamp, 1951.
Marilyn Monroe studying the Niagara script, 1952.
Marilyn Monroe studying the Niagara script, 1952.
Marilyn Monroe photographed by André de Dienes, 1953.
Marilyn Monroe photographed by André de Dienes, 1953.
i really do hope you change your theme soon , your old one was amazing x
I agree I don't like my current theme either! I need to keep looking for a good one.
Good news regarding Love, Marilyn
For those of you that didn't get to see the Love, Marilyn documentary or have seen it and would like to see it again, it will be on HBO on June 17 at 9 pm!
Set a reminder so you won't forget!
holy god you're so beautiful! :O can i just be you?!
Oh gosh…thank you for such a kind compliment ❤ Believe me you don't want to be or look like me lol I always wish I looked different!
missjessickaaa: Happy 87th birthday to the beautiful Marilyn...
Happy 87th birthday to the beautiful Marilyn Monroe. <3 I hope you know just how loved you are by so many. :) <3
Hope you guys like the collage I made! :)
BROKE OUT MY MARILYN WIG 4 HER BIRTHDAY IM CRACKING UP THIS IS...
BROKE OUT MY MARILYN WIG 4 HER BIRTHDAY IM CRACKING UP THIS IS PART OF THE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION
On June 1, 1952, Marilyn's 26th birthday, she's...
On June 1, 1952, Marilyn's 26th birthday, she's given a wonderful gift—she's told she will play the part of Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
"She returns to us as the camera's gift, the treasure of...
"She returns to us as the camera's gift, the treasure of remembrance. She returns in echoes of dark and light, in a truth only the image can yield, the shutter's eye which sees and tells. The image of Marilyn haunts and flowers from generation to generation. There are not many of her kind. She was born to film, that illusion transforming life into the reality of art." —Sam Shaw
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