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Celebrating the life of Marilyn Monroe. 🌸🕊💕Preserving her legacy with love, respect, and accuracy. ♡︎ PerfectlyMarilynMonroe on IG.

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June 26th, 1953: Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell are inaugurated at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. ✨ “It’s for all time, isn’t it?” Marilyn had asked her. Indeed it is, for all time, just like her. 🤍

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Marilyn Monroe on her thirty-sixth birthday, June 1st, 1962. This was her last birthday 🥺 and her last day on set for Something’s Got to Give. A small birthday party was planned for her, but direcotr George Cukor made sure the day’s work was completed before any celebration.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt at home, 1953. 🤍

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Norma Jeane, later known as Marilyn Monroe, photographed by Richard C. Miller, 1946. 🤍🌸

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Marilyn Monroe on the set of Clash by Night (1952). She was among the first Hollywood women to be regularly wear blue jeans. She told Mike Connolly, “My favorite clothes are something out-and-out slinky or else just plain blue jeans, but the blue jeans have to be body-hugging.”

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Marilyn Monroe on the set of Bus Stop (1956). Her co-star, Eileen Heckart said, “What a sad, lonely young lady. She was adored by millions, but never believed she was loved.”

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andre de Dienes on Long Island, NY, June, 1949.

According to him, she phoned and said, “Let’s make history!” He shopped for two bathing suites, one white and one pink; two parasols, one white, the other read with white polka dots, and silk scarves.

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Norma Jeane Baker on her wedding day to James Dougherty, June 19th, 1942.

In 1961 reflecting back on her marriage, she said, “The whole marriage was a mistake. It wasn’t Jim’s fault at all. I married him because I wanted to get away from the world I’d known.”

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Norma Jeane by Richard C. Miller, 1946. This was one of the shoots before signing a contract with Twentieth Century Fox and changing her name to Marilyn Monroe. She continued to model for work as it took several years for her to breakdown into the film industry.

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Marilyn Monroe during her Monkey Business press tour, August, 1952. The film premiered in Atlantic City on August 31st, but she made a quick stop in New York for a couple of days. She told the press it was to see a “friend,” though many speculated it was Joe DiMaggio.

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On May 19th, 1962, sixty years ago today, Marilyn Monroe performed “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” and “Thanks for the Memories,” at President John F. Kennedy’s birthday gala.

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Marilyn Monroe on the set of “Sitting Pretty” with Clifton Webb and Laurette Luez, January, 1948. Photos by Loomis Dean for Life Magazine. These were never published in Life and, because neither Marilyn nor Laurette were in the film, it is unclear what the purpose of these were.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton H. Greene, 1954. 🤍

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Marilyn Monroe preparing for the Cat on a Hot Tin Roof premiere on March 24th, 1955, at the Ambassador Hotel in New York City. Photos by Ed Feingersh.

“[I sleep in Chanel No. 5 because] it makes sleeping dreamy.” — Movieland magazine, October, 1952.

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into darkness, and the small, dim stars could be seen floating in the sky again.” —Earl Wilson, from the show business nobody knows.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton H. Greene, 1953.
“[She] was the meteor show business. There were many small, dim stars floating in the sky when the meteor streaked across the heavens. Its flash and fire blooded them into oblivion. Then suddenly the meteor was spent, plunged

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Jean Howard, 1954.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Frank Powolny, 1952. His photographs of her during the uprise of her career in 1952 and 1953 are some of the most recognized and reproduced ones.

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Marilyn Monroe at the premiere for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). Photo by Ed Feingersh.
“She wanted to be someone to herself, first.” —Milton Berle on Marilyn.

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Despite her mental state, Marilyn wanted to appear at the gala to support the Studio and Lee Strasberg, whom she had felt aided her craft as an actor.

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Marilyn Monroe at the Roseland Dance Hall in New York City for a benefit gala for The Actors Studio, 1961. This was shortly after she was released from a psychiatric facility; she was severely depressed and confessed suicidal thoughts to her psychiatrist, Dr. Marianne Kris.