Marilyn Monroe loved animals. During her lifetime, she had the following pets: 1. Tippy: Jippy was a black-and-white dog given to Norma Jeane by her foster father, Albert Wayne Bolender. Every day, Tippy accompanied Norma Jeane to school. He even used to wait ~or her to play with ...
―Marilyn Monroe “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.” ―Marilyn Monroe “This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up...
Monroe had three husbands in her lifetime: James Dougherty (1942-1946); Joe DiMaggio (1954) and Arthur Miller (1956-1961). She is also remembered for her romantic relationships with Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Yves Montand and director Elia Kazan. On June 19, 1942, 16-year-old Monroe...
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‘Fine,’ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‘What a horror!’ The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle...
which is why they can’t speak of him. Marilyn Monroe’s father’s absence colors her entire life experience, which often leads her to find father figures in other men, going so far as to call two of her husbands —ex-athlete Joe DiMaggioand playwright Arthur Miller —“Daddy” instead...
Her face, Morgan says, makes it very clear that it's Monroe, with her iconic mole and features. Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, now known to have been an arch-rival of the Kennedy family, thought the man in the tape might be John or Robert Kennedy -- and tried hard to prove...
Adjectives don’t stick easily to Marilyn Monroe, to any of the hundreds of Marilyn Monroes that exist. The gap between the audience and her object is part of the reason for this critical difficulty, as we constantly feel as though we’re lobbing conceptual modifiers at her from inconvenient...
In commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth on June 1, the Packard Campus Theater in Culpeper, Virginia, kicks off the month with three films she made before she became a superstar. The first is the Marx Brothers "Love Happy," in which she has a seductive walk-...
There is no explanation for how the young Marilyn Monroe, living hand to mouth and still years away from being a star, was able to afford the surgery required to "correct" this condition. There is no record of Marilyn's having had an operation at that point in her life, and no contemp...
Behind her signature breathy voice and wide-eyed aspirations of marrying a millionaire, is a woman who just wants to be loved. Actors: Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, George Raft, Pat O'Brien Released: 1959 Directed by: Billy Wilder Also ranks #3 on 17 Major Movies You Didn'...