“To have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was. Instead, she was a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes.” - Arthur Miller

“Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.”

“River of no return”, hair test

The Black Sitting by Milton Greene, 1956

BB, 1957

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Sam Shaw, 1957.

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Gene Kornman, 1953

Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, 1953

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Ted Baron, 1954

Marilyn photographed by Andre de Dienes

Brigitte Bardot photographed by Sam Levin, 1967

Happy Birthday Ann-Margret!