The A to Z of Marilyn Monroe
Here's a little project I've been working on for a while, and I've finally completed it. I'm really pleased with this picspam because I didn't have trouble with any of the letters. And really, Marilyn is so beautiful, it's impossible to find a picture where she looks bad in it.
Note:
Most images are courtesy of MarilynFan.org.
I've done work on the images like colouring and such and I would really appreciate it if the images posted here are not reposted anywhere else or used as bases for icons, banners etc. Thank you and enjoy! :)
A is for Arthur Miller.
"Her beauty and humanity shine through. She is the kind of artist one does not come on every day in the week. After all, she was created by something extraordinary."
-- Arthur Miller
B is for Bus Stop
"I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me."
-- Cherie
C is for Cecil Beaton
"Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of wondrous 'Ohs' and 'Ahs.' She is as spectular as the silvery shower of a Vesuvius fountain; she had rocketed from obscurity to become our post-war sex symbol - the Pinup girl of an age. And whatever press agentry or manufactured illusion may have lit the fuse, it is her own weird genius that has sustained her flight."
-- Cecil Beaton
D is for Don't Bother to Knock
Nell Forbes: You look so different in those clothes.
Eddie Forbes: I'm different all the time
E is for The Essentials [ DOWNLOAD full album]
1. Diamond's Are A Girl's Best Friend
2. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
3. I'm Thru With Love
4. When Love Goes Wrong, Nothing Goes Right - (with Jane Russell)
5. Bye Bye Baby
6. Fine Romance, A
7. She Acts Like A Woman Should
8. Kiss
9. Do It Again
10. After You Get What You Want (You Don't Want It)
11. You'd Be Surprised
12. River Of No Return
13. Happy Birthday, Mr. President
F is for Fox
Marilyn's first studio contract was with Fox. She started using the name Marilyn Monroe, which would become legendary.
G is for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
"Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?"
-- Lorelai Lee
H is for How to Marry a Millionaire
Pola Debevoise: I want to marry Rockfeller.
Schatze Page: Which one?
Pola Debevoise: I don't care.
I is for Innocence
"She has an innocence which is so extraordinary, whatever she plays, however brazen a hussy, it always comes out as an innocent girl. I remember Sir Laurence saying one day during filming: 'Look at that face - she could be five years old.'"
--Dame Sybil Thorndike about Marilyn Monroe
J is for Joe DiMaggio
After Monroe's death, DiMaggio claimed her body and arranged her funeral. For 20 years, he had a half-dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week. Unlike her other two husbands or those who claimed to have been her lovers, he never talked about her publicly or otherwise exploited their relationship.
K is for Korea
In February 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were newlyweds, on a trip in Japan, when the bride took a detour to Korea to entertain the troops. She performed ten shows in four days, in front of audiences that totaled more than 100,000 soldiers and marines. Later Monroe recalled that the trip "was the best thing that ever happened to me. I never felt like a star before in my heart. It was so wonderful to look down and see a fellow smiling at me."
L is for Let's Make Love
"I know people who say 'Hollywood broke her heart,' and all that, but I don't believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you know the book Twelve Against the Gods? Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn."
-- George Cukor, director
M is for The Misfits
Roslyn: If I'm going to be alone, I want to be by myself.
N is for Niagara
"I did Niagara with her. I found her marvelous to work with and terrifically ambitious to do better. And bright. She may not have had an education, but she was just naturally bright."
-- Henry Hathaway, director of the 1952 film
O is for O. Henry's Full House
P is for The Prince and the Showgirl
Northbrook: Aren't you confusing this embassy with a private room at Romano's?
Elsie Marina: Why not? Except up there it's a longer run from the sofa to the door.
Q is for Queen of the Silver Screen
R is for River of No Return
Kay Weston: One thing about this, the longer you last the less you care.
S is for Something's Got to Give
"Please believe me, it was not my doing ... I so looked forward to working with you."
-- Marilyn Monroe to the cast and crew of Something's Got to Give
T is for There's No Business Like Show Business
U is for Unique
"She had flesh which photographed like flesh. You feel you can reach out and touch it. Unique is an overworked word, but in her case it applies. There will never be another one like her, and Lord knows there have been plenty of imitations."
-- Billy Wilder
V is for Vulnerable
"She listens, wants, cares. I catch her laughing across a room and I bust up. Every pore of that lovely translucent skin is alive, open every moment-even though this world could make her vulnerable to being hurt. I would rather work with her than any other actress. I adore her."
-- Montgomery Clift, Marilyn's co-star in The Misfits
W is for Willy Rizzo
She had done her own make-up and made a bit of a hash of it, Rizzo recalls, and there was an underlying sadness about her - but despite all that, it was as if "all the most beautiful women in the world" were there, rolled into one.
X is for X-Rated
Y is for Youthful
Z is for George Zimbel
"It was around midnight when Marilyn arrived on the set, dressed in the now famous white dress. You could feel the crowd surge. There were a few calls of "Hey Marilyn", but mostly people just looked, always shifting for a better view. They couldn't see much with the phalanx of police and photographers in front of them, but Marilyn knew how to play to a crowd. She turned and waved several times and they went wild, "fifties wild". This was a time when crowds didn't get out of control. Even the photographers were civil to each other."
-- George Zimbel, photographer
Note:
Most images are courtesy of MarilynFan.org.
I've done work on the images like colouring and such and I would really appreciate it if the images posted here are not reposted anywhere else or used as bases for icons, banners etc. Thank you and enjoy! :)
A is for Arthur Miller.
"Her beauty and humanity shine through. She is the kind of artist one does not come on every day in the week. After all, she was created by something extraordinary."
-- Arthur Miller
B is for Bus Stop
"I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me."
-- Cherie
C is for Cecil Beaton
"Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of wondrous 'Ohs' and 'Ahs.' She is as spectular as the silvery shower of a Vesuvius fountain; she had rocketed from obscurity to become our post-war sex symbol - the Pinup girl of an age. And whatever press agentry or manufactured illusion may have lit the fuse, it is her own weird genius that has sustained her flight."
-- Cecil Beaton
D is for Don't Bother to Knock
Nell Forbes: You look so different in those clothes.
Eddie Forbes: I'm different all the time
E is for The Essentials [ DOWNLOAD full album]
1. Diamond's Are A Girl's Best Friend
2. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
3. I'm Thru With Love
4. When Love Goes Wrong, Nothing Goes Right - (with Jane Russell)
5. Bye Bye Baby
6. Fine Romance, A
7. She Acts Like A Woman Should
8. Kiss
9. Do It Again
10. After You Get What You Want (You Don't Want It)
11. You'd Be Surprised
12. River Of No Return
13. Happy Birthday, Mr. President
F is for Fox
Marilyn's first studio contract was with Fox. She started using the name Marilyn Monroe, which would become legendary.
G is for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
"Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?"
-- Lorelai Lee
H is for How to Marry a Millionaire
Pola Debevoise: I want to marry Rockfeller.
Schatze Page: Which one?
Pola Debevoise: I don't care.
I is for Innocence
"She has an innocence which is so extraordinary, whatever she plays, however brazen a hussy, it always comes out as an innocent girl. I remember Sir Laurence saying one day during filming: 'Look at that face - she could be five years old.'"
--Dame Sybil Thorndike about Marilyn Monroe
J is for Joe DiMaggio
After Monroe's death, DiMaggio claimed her body and arranged her funeral. For 20 years, he had a half-dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week. Unlike her other two husbands or those who claimed to have been her lovers, he never talked about her publicly or otherwise exploited their relationship.
K is for Korea
In February 1954, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were newlyweds, on a trip in Japan, when the bride took a detour to Korea to entertain the troops. She performed ten shows in four days, in front of audiences that totaled more than 100,000 soldiers and marines. Later Monroe recalled that the trip "was the best thing that ever happened to me. I never felt like a star before in my heart. It was so wonderful to look down and see a fellow smiling at me."
L is for Let's Make Love
"I know people who say 'Hollywood broke her heart,' and all that, but I don't believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you know the book Twelve Against the Gods? Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn."
-- George Cukor, director
M is for The Misfits
Roslyn: If I'm going to be alone, I want to be by myself.
N is for Niagara
"I did Niagara with her. I found her marvelous to work with and terrifically ambitious to do better. And bright. She may not have had an education, but she was just naturally bright."
-- Henry Hathaway, director of the 1952 film
O is for O. Henry's Full House
P is for The Prince and the Showgirl
Northbrook: Aren't you confusing this embassy with a private room at Romano's?
Elsie Marina: Why not? Except up there it's a longer run from the sofa to the door.
Q is for Queen of the Silver Screen
R is for River of No Return
Kay Weston: One thing about this, the longer you last the less you care.
S is for Something's Got to Give
"Please believe me, it was not my doing ... I so looked forward to working with you."
-- Marilyn Monroe to the cast and crew of Something's Got to Give
T is for There's No Business Like Show Business
U is for Unique
"She had flesh which photographed like flesh. You feel you can reach out and touch it. Unique is an overworked word, but in her case it applies. There will never be another one like her, and Lord knows there have been plenty of imitations."
-- Billy Wilder
V is for Vulnerable
"She listens, wants, cares. I catch her laughing across a room and I bust up. Every pore of that lovely translucent skin is alive, open every moment-even though this world could make her vulnerable to being hurt. I would rather work with her than any other actress. I adore her."
-- Montgomery Clift, Marilyn's co-star in The Misfits
W is for Willy Rizzo
She had done her own make-up and made a bit of a hash of it, Rizzo recalls, and there was an underlying sadness about her - but despite all that, it was as if "all the most beautiful women in the world" were there, rolled into one.
X is for X-Rated
Y is for Youthful
Z is for George Zimbel
"It was around midnight when Marilyn arrived on the set, dressed in the now famous white dress. You could feel the crowd surge. There were a few calls of "Hey Marilyn", but mostly people just looked, always shifting for a better view. They couldn't see much with the phalanx of police and photographers in front of them, but Marilyn knew how to play to a crowd. She turned and waved several times and they went wild, "fifties wild". This was a time when crowds didn't get out of control. Even the photographers were civil to each other."
-- George Zimbel, photographer