Marilyn Monroe working out of her West Hollywood home in Los Angeles, California. Photo, May 1953, by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Marilyn Monroe’s library contained over 400 books and her love of reading is well documented (she was also married to the playwright Arthur Miller). Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and On the Road by Jack Kerouac were two of her most beloved novels. (x)

WHICH DARK FEMININE ARCHETYPE ARE YOU?

Marilyn Monroe + Borzoi’s <3 and more 🐕

so according to this biography of marilyn monroe I'm reading joe dimaggio initially asked her out "after he saw a news photo of her posing sexily in a short-skirted baseball outfit, aiming to hit a ball" and then on their first date he was like "so. baseball! most important thing in the universe amirite" and she was like "I don't actually know what 'baseball' is. I just often pose sexily with various props. like as publicity for my career as a sexy and alluring movie star" and he was like "I'm a Catholic and I think women acting sexy and alluring in public is a mortal sin" and then they decided to get married

like I just picture them at the wedding ceremony clasping hands and gazing into each other's eyes and saying in perfect unison "I can fix you"

Marilyn M. and her personal library.... and my fellow bibliophiles will have fun zooming in on those book titles!black

‘Blonde’ is NOT a biopic.

‘Blonde’ is NOT a biopic.

‘Blonde’ is NOT a biopic.

‘Blonde’ is NOT a biopic.

Please PLEASE - If you want to learn about Marilyn Monroe, the real human being whose story deserves to be heard truthfully and accurately, check out this list of reliable books and documentaries HERE by @perfectlymarilynmonroe .

Marilyn would only thank you for trying to know the real her.

Crossfire 12 Cover by Dave Stevens

1391- Intento encontrarme cómo persona. No es fácil; millones viven toda su vida sin encontrarse.

(Marilyn Monroe)

Marilyn Monroe 1955, by Eve Arnold.

Marilyn Monroe reads a copy of Irving Shulman's novel The Big Brokers at a bookstore on Sunset Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California, 1953

You know the F/O brain rot is STRONG when they have you researching topics you never once cared about.

Proship DNI

Just some thoughts on turning twenty.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (the fact twenty-one is the cut off, the time when women must become self-conscious of their age. It’s a different time, sure, but it’s still strange to be on this precipice...), Mitski, ‘Class of 2013′, extract of a poem I wrote (tormented by how birthdays sometimes seem an endurance test, it is a miracle to still be alive, to have outlived others, the privilege of growing up and growing old, and yet it is all so exhausting to know you still have decades of life to get through, joy and pain, etc.), Unknown seventeenth-century painter from the Veneto, Portrait of Angela Adorni Sbardellini, Prioress of the Zitelle (I like the contrast between her and her costume, the complicated creases and folds vs her still young face, she seems a girl peeking out of an adult body), Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals, Florence + the Machine, ‘Free’, picture of Marilyn Monroe at twenty, Luke Hemmings, ‘Diamonds’ 

Hollywood Moments

By Murray Garrett

With an introductory note by Debbie Reynolds

Abrams, New York 2002, 178 pages, 24x30,5cm, 145 duotone photographa, ISBN 978-0810932425

euro 80,00

A follow-up to Hollywood Candid showcases 145 images of stars taken during intimate or irreverent moments, in a volume containing many never-before-seen photos and complemented by personal reminiscences.

he pathos of Old Hollywood emerges in this dazzling collection of black-and-white photos from the 40s, 50s and 60s. Celebrity photojournalist Garrett captured his subjects at nightclubs, industry soirées and parties-an in-between world where stars tried to enjoy their private lives while still very much on public display. Garrett maintained a studied reserve toward the celebrities (he made a point of never addressing them by their first names) and his photos have a appealing mixture of intimacy and detachment as the celebrities drink, laugh and carouse while tricked out in formal wear and immaculate hair-dos. He is especially fascinated with Hollywood divas like Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Leslie Caron and Ava Gardner; his photos show the warmth of these vibrant personalities while hinting at the strain they suffered in maintaining their glamorous facades. The photos are accompanied by piquant reminiscences: of the wise-cracking Zsa-zsa Gabor shoving her way into every picture frame, the lovable Jimmy Durante shoving his way into oncoming traffic, and the thuggish Milton Berle shoving hapless underlings out of his dressing room. In one tense picture worth a thousand words, a vampy Lauren Bacall embraces Van Heflin while her husband, Humphrey Bogart, looks on ("I heard Bogey say, in a chilled tone, 'Van, that's close enough'"). In these lively, unlacquered but sympathetic portraits, celebrities emerge as flawed, human and never entirely free of self-consciousness.

17/10/23

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