Posted on 06/02/2009 6:21:24 AM PDT by JoeProBono
They were taken before Marilyn Monroe became branded as the voluptuous blonde who oozed sex appeal in dozens of Hollywood films. A 24-year-old Marilyn Monroe poses for Life magazine in August 1950. They were taken before rumors of an affair with President John F. Kennedy swirled and her mental breakdowns became public. They were taken before the beautiful actress's mysterious overdose that resulted in her death at the age of 36.
In a collection discovered by Life.com last month, unpublished photographs of Monroe reveal a softer, more innocent 24-year-old budding starlet in a more peaceful time, before her fame peaked. Her flawless face bears a natural look with minimal makeup, unusual for the star, who was often glamorized in photo shoots with lipstick, designer dresses and expensive jewelry. Monday would have been Monroe's 83rd birthday. In one photo, the young Monroe lies in bliss, reading on a park bench, which editors at Life.com believe was shot at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. In another, her face is serene as she is perched over a bridge barefoot. The shoot, which dates to 1950, was conducted by Life photographer Ed Clark. It's a side of Monroe that the American public has rarely seen.
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And today, she’d be considered fat!!
I’m a woman, but there was something about her that even other women could find appealing. An sense of innocence missing from today’s skanks.
When I think of a really beautiful woman, I think of Marilyn Monroe.
Pssst. Time-Lies.
Time-Lies-Warner-Turner is the parent corporation of CNN.
Time-Lies sells “collectable” prints from the Life Magazine archives. They keep dredging up unused photos (that typically do not compensate the photographer or the subject) to sell more large prints for persons at home at museum collections.
This is nothing but advertising from Time-Lies-Warner.
Boycott and defund the Left.
I agree, even as a woman, I find her beautiful and probably pretty fun to be friends with. She was “real” and childlike, but also smart (she only played dumb).
“And today, she’d be considered fat!!”
I was thinking the same thing.
Her thighs are FAT.
Grace Kelly - now that is classic beauty as well as a woman that maintained her dignity. In other words, she didn’t have to take her clothes off and lose herself in drugs to get attention.
Good thing there's no web cam connection on FR cause if you think her thighs are fat, you'd better not see mine!!! :-)
Maybe in public she did. But in private she slutted around with quite a few married men.
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