Marilyn Monroe – Page 2 – We Heart Vintage blog: retro fashion, cinema and photography

Marilyn Monroe’s costume test for her unseen last movie (video)

Marilyn Monroe‘s costume test for the unfinished 1962 movie Something’s Got to Give. She’s absolutely hypnotic, even just trying out

Marilyn Monroe‘s Coca Cola commercial from 1953. Apparently this was a scene from the movie Love Nest which was later re-edited

Discovering that the big Hollywood stars of the 30s and 40s all had cocktails named after them has opened up

Marilyn Monroe‘s promotional photos from the 1957 movie The Prince and the Showgirl. You can see she was on-screen dynamite can’t

I say ‘10 things you didn’t know about Marilyn Monroe‘ but obviously I have no idea how much of a

Marilyn Monroe’s measurements There’s a lot of discussion about whether Marilyn Monroe really was a size 16, and whether that

Norma Jean Dougherty (who later became Marilyn Monroe) photographed for US Army magazine YANK on June 26 1945. There’s no

Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell both in white halterneck dresses. I think this photo was from 1953 when they put

It’s hard to define an iconic dress – it has to be instantly recognizable: Where was it worn and by

It struck me as strange that in all the vintage lookbooks I’ve done – I’ve never done one for Marilyn

Chanel have recently managed to buy a rare recording of Marilyn talking about her famous Chanel No.5 quote. You know

Above: Marilyn Monroe receives an escort while in Korea for her USO tour. In February 1954 shortly after marrying Joe

There’s been a bit of a Marilyn Monroe theme to my blog this week – which wasn’t planned, it just

I’ve moved this photo into a Pinterest gallery showing Marilyn Monroe’s impressive scar here. As you can see it’s quite