Happy Birthday Tim Rice-Oxley! | June 2, 1976

“I love the idea that music can lift us out of ourselves, make us forget our everyday troubles, make us feel young. I also think the line “You’ve got to bring some good into this world” pretty much sums up my view of being a human being - I kind of feel that bringing some good into the world is about the best thing you can hope to do in life. I’d say it’s the reason we make music.”

9 favorite Marilyn films

“She has a certain indefinable magic that comes across, which no other actress in the business has.” - Billy Wilder

“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

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARILYN MONROE! | June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anyone or anything else.”

Marilyn Monroe as Roslyn in “The misfits”, 1961

Nice girls don’t feel the way I do.

…Go home, go

In the “Heatwave” number, Marilyn Monroe actually accidentally pokes her finger in a dancer’s eye, something you can see on the DVD on slow motion. Right after Marilyn pokes the dancer in the eye she performs a twirl, pokes her head between the branches of the fake tree and gives the dancer a kiss as an apology (it’s quick but definitely a peck on the cheek to make up for the eye poke).

Marilyn Monroe in “There’s no business like show business”

Every parting from you is like a little eternity.

Brigitte Bardot and Henri Vidal in “La parisienne” (1957) and “Voulez-vous danser avec moi?” (1959). dir. Michel Boisrond

Marilyn Monroe interview at Idlewild Airport

Betty Grable in “Pin Up Girl”, 1944