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.”

“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.”

Marilyn Monroe as Roslyn in “The misfits”, 1961

“River of no return”, hair test

Nice girls don’t feel the way I do.

…Go home, go

The Black Sitting by Milton Greene, 1956

BB, 1957

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Sam Shaw, 1957.

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The Mother’s Hand. 1966 by Antanas Sutkus

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).