Milla Jovovich Channels Marilyn Monroe For Madame Figaro

Photo Credit: Ellen von Unwerth for Madame Figaro

Ciccone Rules Out.

EAT IT!

Marilyn Monroe Dead

June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962

Marilyn Monroe Dress Fetches $4.6 Million

While it’s true that the economy is still a bit shaky, that didn’t seem to matter at a weekend auction of Hollywood memorabilia.

The iconic dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in “The Seven Year Itch” was sold to a collector who paid a hefty sum of $4.6 million.Monroe’s dress was originally collected by Debbie Reynolds who intended to house her array of Hollywood goodies in a museum.

Other notable items auctioned off were Audrey Hepburn’s costume from “My Fair Lady,” and a headdress worn by Elizabeth Taylor in “Cleopatra.”

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Happy 85th Birthday Marilyn Monroe!

Oh Marilyn, Happy Birthday! Our Madonna has referenced and paid homage to Marilyn many times in her career and rightfully so. When asked by Regis Philbin in 1991 during her promotion for Truth or Dare why the references to Monroe, Madonna said something along the lines that she identified with how everyone always focused on and obsessed over each others sexuality.

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For me, Madonna always gave Marilyn a much needed shot of adrenaline. Twisting that vulnerability and drug addiction into strength. I think public opinion is different today on Monroe than it was 25 years ago. We look at her more as a strong figure rather than weak.

I always loved this SNL sketch of Madonna as Marilyn Monroe from 1985 when she hosted the show. We have one of my favorites, the fantastic Joan Cusack as the maid and Randy Quaid as Jack Kennedy. A young Robert Downey, Jr. plays Elvis Presley. Madonna would work later with Quaid in Bloodhounds of Broadway (1989) and John Lovitz in A League of Their Own (1992). And Robert Downey, Jr., of course, went on to star in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009).

Miss Monroe, Miss Monroe, I can't figure out your new vacuum cleaner....

Marilyn Monroe Beach Photoshoot

Monroe, born Norma Jean Baker, led a remarkable but short life. Although the circumstances of her death are open to debate, she committed “probable suicide” on August 5, 1962, ending a 36-year roller coaster ride.

Monroe was married briefly to Joe DiMaggio, a baseball Hall of Famer that played for the New York Yankees. She was also chosen to appear on the December 1953 inaugural issue of Playboy magazine and was the publication’s first Playmate of the Month.

Rumors have existed since the 1960s that Monroe had affairs with Robert Kennedy or John F. Kennedy, or both.

While allegations of an affair with President Kennedy did not make it into the mainstream press until the 1970s, a pamphlet in 1964, published after Monroe’s death entitled The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe, by investigator Frank Cappell, alleged a relationship between Monroe and Bobby Kennedy.

JFK’s reputed mistress Judith Exner, in her 1977 autobiography, also wrote about an affair that she says the president and Monroe had.

Fabulous! Gorgeous! Brilliant! MADONNA! The Making of "Give it 2 Me"

This is an experiment.

I've always said that Madonna at 50 reminded me of Marilyn Monroe at 36 except more beautiful. Everyone dismissed it but once again...

and it's not the hat.

EAT IT!!!!

Bill O'Reilly: Whoopie and Joy walk off The View

Forget Whoopie and Joy walking off over the muslim shyt...They should have bytch slapped Bill O'Reilly when he tried to let Madonna have it while promoting his new book, Pinheads and Patriots. After Joy and Whoopie returned, Bill goes on about his book and touches on Madonna, her Detroit roots and the tired, over used public opinion on her British accent and labels her a Pinhead because of it. On and on and on the sheep go. Then he blubbers on about Marilyn Monroe being a Patriot.

Love Barbara Walters sliding in her dry, "that's your description of a patriot? Haha! Nothing against our gorgeous Marilyn, of course.

Let us not forget Bill O'Nothing's constant admiration for Madonna while anchoring Inside Edition in the early 90's. Oh, uh huh, right.

Best photos of the most famous blonde ever, Marilyn Monroe

Happy Birthday Marilyn Monroe!

84. xo

Madonna, Clara Bow, Elinor Glyn, Gloria Swanson, Marilyn Monroe, and 'It'.

Being obsessed with the 1920's, 50's and the 80's with the spillover into each new decade...usually the first 2 to 3 years, as a teenager, I thoroughly investigated the first two decades of the aforementioned. Around 1986, I discovered Clara Bow and 'It' - I've been enamored ever since. As I was writing this post, I was listening to my 1920's Radio Network. Coincidentally, Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians Memory Lane (1924) played.

Novelist and scriptwriter Elinor Glyn, who was born and died while the sun was in Libra, wrote a novel called "It" in 1927.  She coined the term It and gave many confusing and sometimes contradictory explanations for what "It" meant, but she always said that "It" did not mean "sex appeal" and anyone who said it did was vulgarizing her concept. Nonetheless, it was as a euphemism for "sex appeal" that "It" entered the language in the 1920s.  From this we get the concept of Clara Bow's film It.

Screen Cap from the film It:

In David Stenn's Clara Bow biography Running Wild (1988), he spoke of Madonna's continuing interest in playing silent film star Clara Bow on the big screen. Unfortunately, this never happened.

Smoldering Clara circa 1928:

Madonna by Steven Meisel in Bow-esque pose in 1991:

Monroe as Clara Bow photographed by Richard Avedon in 1958:

 

Here is a clip of Clara in Mantrap (1926) - the film that inspired both Monroe and Madonna.





Elinor also wrote Beyond the Rocks, which starred that other glamour silent film queen, Gloria Swanson.  Beyond the Rocks had been long lost, then found and restored in the Netherlands in 2005. Here we have a dapper Rudolph Valentino and a Swanson looking most vampish, groovy and cool.  It is one of my favorite silents starring Gloria.  Elinor is also credited with personally revamping Gloria from a giggly starlet into an elegant movie queen.





Prince's Around The World in a Day record cover featuring Clara:

   

Andy Warhol: It Should Look the Way Madonna Looks in Her "Papa Don't Preach" Video...Those Strong Colors. Blond Hair and Orange Lipstick on Black"

Andy Warhol in his diaries on November 9, 1986 - describing what the look of his MTV show, Andy Warhol Fifteen Minutes should look like. Madonna never accepted to appear on the show but, per usual, was The Muse to even the greatest...A Star Above All the Stars and Artists. Madonna's constant influence on art and culture.

Miss Monroe, Miss Monroe, I can't figure out your new vacuum cleaner....