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Do you know if Marilyn Monroe's suits were off-the-rack or made just for her?
I believe they were probably made for her. She often spoke of a chic and simple black one, designed by Christian Dior, which I'm sure was tailor-made. Most of her suits had such gorgeous cuts that fit her curves so nicely that I bet they were all made just for her.
I am Making over a friend as marilyn monroe but she has longer hair that comes just one to two incHes below her shoulders-- what should i do?
That's okay! You can still do a marilyn makeover-- just use rollers or a curling iron to curl the hair under (or out-- whichever you prefer). If there are bangs (or "fringe") involved, loosely curl them under as well. while filming the Misfits,, marilyn wore her hair longer than normal (Seen at left). For inspiration, watch the movie or Look at photos of her in the film.
How can someone learn to walk like Marilyn? Basically what kind of things can I do to achieve that perfect Marilyn-like walk?
I just love her walk-- it's absolutely classic and absolutely Marilyn! For clues on how to do her walk, let's go straight to the source. Marilyn herself stated: "When you walk, always think UP and front, and DOWN in back." She explained to her stand-in Evelyn Moriarty, "Shoulders back, fanny hoisted and lots of shimmy." In Marilyn Monroe: Her Own Story by George Carpozi, Jr. from 1961, she said, "I've never deliberately done anything about the way I walk. People say I walk all wiggly and wobbly, but I don't know what they mean. I just walk. I've never wiggled deliberately in my life, but all my life I've had trouble with people who say I do."
I've also read this before: "She had 'hypertension' of the knees: they locked and unlocked each time she took a step." (Hollywood Dream Girl, 1955) Adam Victor's entry on "The Walk" in The Marilyn Encyclopedia (1999), includes this interesting information:
Do you know if Marilyn Monroe's suits were off-the-rack or made just for her?
I believe they were probably made for her. She often spoke of a chic and simple black one, designed by Christian Dior, which I'm sure was tailor-made. Most of her suits had such gorgeous cuts that fit her curves so nicely that I bet they were all made just for her.
I am Making over a friend as marilyn monroe but she has longer hair that comes just one to two incHes below her shoulders-- what should i do?
That's okay! You can still do a marilyn makeover-- just use rollers or a curling iron to curl the hair under (or out-- whichever you prefer). If there are bangs (or "fringe") involved, loosely curl them under as well. while filming the Misfits,, marilyn wore her hair longer than normal (Seen at left). For inspiration, watch the movie or Look at photos of her in the film.
How can someone learn to walk like Marilyn? Basically what kind of things can I do to achieve that perfect Marilyn-like walk?
I just love her walk-- it's absolutely classic and absolutely Marilyn! For clues on how to do her walk, let's go straight to the source. Marilyn herself stated: "When you walk, always think UP and front, and DOWN in back." She explained to her stand-in Evelyn Moriarty, "Shoulders back, fanny hoisted and lots of shimmy." In Marilyn Monroe: Her Own Story by George Carpozi, Jr. from 1961, she said, "I've never deliberately done anything about the way I walk. People say I walk all wiggly and wobbly, but I don't know what they mean. I just walk. I've never wiggled deliberately in my life, but all my life I've had trouble with people who say I do."
I've also read this before: "She had 'hypertension' of the knees: they locked and unlocked each time she took a step." (Hollywood Dream Girl, 1955) Adam Victor's entry on "The Walk" in The Marilyn Encyclopedia (1999), includes this interesting information:
"After Niagara, everybody wanted to know whether Marilyn's walk was natural or invented. According to Allan "Whitey" Snyder [her make-up man], Marilyn first developed her walk accidentally, one day when her high heels met uneven cobblestones. Another suggestion was that she secretly filed down one heel until it was half an inch shorter than the other. Marilyn's masseur, Ralph Roberts, said that Marilyn worked out the walk after reading The Thinking Body by Mabel Ellsworth Todd, a book containing an exercise which involved shifting the weight from one buttock to the other while sitting."
Author Carol David wrote, "Modeling taught her how to project her good looks, although she never got over her wiggle when she walked." (Marilyn Monroe, 1962). Indeed, her first modeling instructor Emmeline Snively said: "The first thing we tried to do was change that horrible walk. That wiggle wasn't good for fashion models but it was Marilyn and we couldn't change it. I'm glad now, of course." (The Los Angeles Mirror; January 21, 1954).
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Were her eyes naturally blue? In some photos they look brown. But they didn't have colored contacts back then, did they?
Birth name
Norma Jean Mortensen
Nickname
The Blonde Bombshell
Height
5' 5½" (1.66 m)
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Her mother was a film-cutter at RKO who, widowed and insane, abandoned her to sequence of foster homes. She was almost smothered to death at two, nearly raped at six. At nine the LA Orphans' Home paid her a nickel a month for kitchen work while taking back a penny every Sunday for church. At sixteen she worked in an aircraft plant and married a man she called Daddy; he went into the military, she modeled, they divorced in 1946. She owned 200 books (including Tolstoy, Whitman, Milton), listened to Beethoven records, studied acting at the Actors' lab in Hollywood, and took literature courses at UCLA downtown. 20th Century Fox gave her a contract but let it lapse a year later. In 1948 Columbia gave her a six-month contract, turned her over to coach Natasha Lytess and featured her in the B movie "Ladies of the Chorus" for which she sang two numbers. Joseph Mankiewicz saw her in a small part in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and put her in "All About Eve", because of which 20th Century re-signed her to a seven-year contract. Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) launched her as a sex symbol superstar. When she went to a supper honoring her The Seven Year Itch (1955) she arrived in a red chiffon gown borrowed from the studio (she had never owned a gown). The same year she married and divorced baseball great 'Joe Dimaggio' (their wedding night was spent in Paso Robles CA). After "Itch" she wanted serious acting to replace the sexpot image and went to New York's Actors Studio. She worked with director Lee Strasberg and also underwent psychoanalysis to learn more about herself. Critics praised her transformation in Bus Stop (1956) and the press was stunned by her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller. True to form, she had no veil to match her beige wedding dress so she dyed one in coffee; he wore one of the two suits he owned. They went to England that fall where she made "The Prince and the Showgirl" with Lawrence Olivier, fighting with him and falling further prey to alcohol and pills. Two miscarriages and gynecological surgery followed. So did an affair with Yves Montand. Work on her last picture The Misfits (1961), written for her by departing husband Miller) was interrupted by exhaustion. She was dropped from "Something's Got to Give" due to chronic lateness and drug dependency. Four months later she was found dead in her Brentwood home of a drug overdose, adjudged suicide.
Norma Jean Mortensen
Nickname
The Blonde Bombshell
Height
5' 5½" (1.66 m)
Mini biography
Her mother was a film-cutter at RKO who, widowed and insane, abandoned her to sequence of foster homes. She was almost smothered to death at two, nearly raped at six. At nine the LA Orphans' Home paid her a nickel a month for kitchen work while taking back a penny every Sunday for church. At sixteen she worked in an aircraft plant and married a man she called Daddy; he went into the military, she modeled, they divorced in 1946. She owned 200 books (including Tolstoy, Whitman, Milton), listened to Beethoven records, studied acting at the Actors' lab in Hollywood, and took literature courses at UCLA downtown. 20th Century Fox gave her a contract but let it lapse a year later. In 1948 Columbia gave her a six-month contract, turned her over to coach Natasha Lytess and featured her in the B movie "Ladies of the Chorus" for which she sang two numbers. Joseph Mankiewicz saw her in a small part in The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and put her in "All About Eve", because of which 20th Century re-signed her to a seven-year contract. Niagara (1953) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) launched her as a sex symbol superstar. When she went to a supper honoring her The Seven Year Itch (1955) she arrived in a red chiffon gown borrowed from the studio (she had never owned a gown). The same year she married and divorced baseball great 'Joe Dimaggio' (their wedding night was spent in Paso Robles CA). After "Itch" she wanted serious acting to replace the sexpot image and went to New York's Actors Studio. She worked with director Lee Strasberg and also underwent psychoanalysis to learn more about herself. Critics praised her transformation in Bus Stop (1956) and the press was stunned by her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller. True to form, she had no veil to match her beige wedding dress so she dyed one in coffee; he wore one of the two suits he owned. They went to England that fall where she made "The Prince and the Showgirl" with Lawrence Olivier, fighting with him and falling further prey to alcohol and pills. Two miscarriages and gynecological surgery followed. So did an affair with Yves Montand. Work on her last picture The Misfits (1961), written for her by departing husband Miller) was interrupted by exhaustion. She was dropped from "Something's Got to Give" due to chronic lateness and drug dependency. Four months later she was found dead in her Brentwood home of a drug overdose, adjudged suicide.
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I think they were blue.
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Adding to the "Marilyn Eye Color" debate....
They sell "novelty" replica versions of her driver's license. It says brown. I looked through the HQs at Doctor Macros, very few were in color, and the ones that were in color seemed overly enhanced color. I'm attaching the one I found that seemed natural. Maybe we need to rent out a theater and have an all-night screening to get to the bottom of things. My TV at home doesn't do her justice!
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They sell "novelty" replica versions of her driver's license. It says brown. I looked through the HQs at Doctor Macros, very few were in color, and the ones that were in color seemed overly enhanced color. I'm attaching the one I found that seemed natural. Maybe we need to rent out a theater and have an all-night screening to get to the bottom of things. My TV at home doesn't do her justice!
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I belive her eyes were definitely blue,Bus Stop anyone?!
Luxurys Lap thanks so much for that link,i love those Pucci dresses!
I was reading Truman Capotes Music for Chameleons and there was a short story about his day with Marilyn and it was so beautifuly written,specially the end;it got me into tears.Anyone else read it?
Luxurys Lap thanks so much for that link,i love those Pucci dresses!
I was reading Truman Capotes Music for Chameleons and there was a short story about his day with Marilyn and it was so beautifuly written,specially the end;it got me into tears.Anyone else read it?
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I found a site that has 38 pages with Marilyn pics. Many of them I haven't seen before. Here is a link: http://usemycomputer.com/indeximages/women/Marilyn.Monroe/
The movies in colour with Marilyn that I can think of are: Niagara,Gentlemen
prefer blondes,How to marry a millionaire,The seven year itch,There's no business like show business,The river of no return,Bus Stop,Let's make love and The prince and the showgirl. And her eyes look blue in all of them I think. I have seen colour pictures of her before she was blonde and famous and her eyes look blue there to. In Donald Spoto's book from 1993 her eyes are described as blue.
The movies in colour with Marilyn that I can think of are: Niagara,Gentlemen
prefer blondes,How to marry a millionaire,The seven year itch,There's no business like show business,The river of no return,Bus Stop,Let's make love and The prince and the showgirl. And her eyes look blue in all of them I think. I have seen colour pictures of her before she was blonde and famous and her eyes look blue there to. In Donald Spoto's book from 1993 her eyes are described as blue.
i love MM and I loved pucci. I only found out recently, much to my delight of course, that MM wore lots of pucci! so I wrote a little something on it
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