#person: Marilyn Monroe

[thevirgodoll]

from my new blog post featuring Marilyn Monroe 🩷

#marilyn monroe #lover personality type #lover personality #romance #doll archetypes #personality types #archetypes #tropes

[dkettchen]

niche ass crossover fanart noone asked for and my main criticism of barbie movie in a nutshell

#barbie movie #gentlemen prefer blondes #ken #ken barbie movie #marilyn monroe #jane russell #I watched gentlemen prefer blondes with my friend the other day and my brain decided this was a necessary consequence #the fashion is glorious in this movie if you like women and/or fabulousness you absolutely need to watch it #I've decided to cast blonde ken as lorelei and simu's ken as dorothy #seeing as they match the hair colours and general personality types well enough x'D #also shout out to barbie fashion for basically already being stuck in the 50s which made these redesigns hecking easy #I'm finally watching live action one piece? what better time to make FULLY UNRELATED FANART #about one movie that is just out long enough to no longer be relevant and one that is literally 70 years old

[voguefashion]

Marilyn Monroe wearing the iconic Jean Louis skin-tight nude mesh dress, which has more than 6,000 hand-sewn crystals, was specifically made for Monroe to wear to a Democratic fundraiser and 45th birthday celebration for President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden on May 19th 1962, where she sang “Happy Birthday Mr. President” to the delighted President. 

The body hugging flesh coloured dress was inspired by a sketch by a 21-year-old Bob Mackie. Monroe asked famed Hollywood costume designer Jean Louis to create a dress “that only Marilyn Monroe could wear.” The nude chiffon gown, perfectly matching Monroe’s skin tone, is embellished with hand-sewn round crystals, carefully placed since the dress was created with no underlining layer. Monroe wore no undergarments under the dress. The back of the dress has a scoop neck and open back with clear zipper, covered by hook and eye tab closure and a small train at the back hem. Despite the zipper and closures, the gown was so form fitting that Louis later disclosed that Monroe had to be sewn into the back closure. His hand stitching is still evident beneath the lower back hook and eye tabs. The dress sold at Julien’s Auction on November 17, 2016 for $4.8 million, making it the most expensive dress ever sold. Today the value of the dress is even higher.

#don't get me started on kim k wearing it #she just ruined the value of it #now monroe is not the last person to wear it #the historic value of the dress is tainted #disappointing that ripleys agreed to it #i understand the anger #marilyn monroe #jean louis #1962 #fashion #style #1960s

[pinkmetalbimbo22]

I love mornings so much!! I hope y’all have a great morning when y’all wake up 💖💋💋💋

#bimbo core #bimbo fashion #bimboification #summer bimbo #bimbo feminism #good morning #morning person #pink pilates girl #pink pilates princess #pink moodboard #hello kitty #hello kitty aesthetic #sanrio #love #pinterest girly #the girls next door #the house bunny #holly madison #blondies #babydoll #nymphcore #doelet #nympette #poetry #sylvia plath #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #marilyn monroe #anna nicole smith #elvis presley #y2k icons

[ragazzoarcano]

“Sto cercando di ritrovarmi come persona, a volte non è per niente facile. Milioni di persone vivono la loro intera vita senza mai trovarsi...

Una carriera nasce in pubblico, il talento nella privacy.”

— Marilyn Monroe

#cercare #ritrovarsi #persona #a volte #non è facile #persone #vivere #trovarsi #talento #privacy #frasi e citazioni #frasi tumblr #frasi #frasi vere #frasi profonde #frasi ad effetto #marilyn monroe

[angelstills]

Some Like It Hot (1959)

#Some Like It Hot #1950s #1959 #Film #Marilyn Monroe #Billy Wilder #personal fave

[mimiatmidnight]

It's so true like they really just don't compare, but I can't really explain to myself why? Like the dress just looks so uninteresting on kim, but it was so different in the original on MM

Besides all the complex intertwining external factors we've been discussing, purely on an aesthetic level, I think the difference you're feeling is the effect of shapewear. Part of the Kardashians' whole brand is pushing the limits reality to achieve their definition of (or really, the illusion of their definition of) perfection. I think of Khloe's infamous breakdown a little while ago when a candid photo leaked of her looking human in a bathing suit. She was thrown into an actual panic. It was honestly devastating to watch. And here, with Kim's look, she has her body so smoothed and corseted and shapewear-ed into an image of some alien figure that just looks . . . like nothing. I look at her and I feel absolutely nothing.

The magic of Marilyn's look was that she was not trying to hide ANYTHING. You could practically see her entire body beneath the dress. She was showing off every single dip and sag and roll and dimple. You look at her and for a split second you think she's standing in front of you completely naked, until you look again and you notice she's actually covered in crystals. Like . . . that is so iconic I can't even fully verbalize it. She is unapologetically imperfect and you cannot take your eyes off of her. Like I talked about before, everything Marilyn wore was about how she looked in it, never how it looked on her. And that is something you simply cannot replicate.

#kim kardashian #met gala #marilyn monroe #fashun #it's also the utterly bland hair and makeup that everyone is talking about #but this was the most significant failure to me so i wanted to explore it here #and also ofc it's the difference of the women themselves #not to say kim's a bad person or anything but i cant think of a single group of people more representative of the color beige than that lot #and marilyn was so full of wit and charm and talent and passion and introspection #and all some people think of her is ''oh sexy? i can be sexy too'' #like please kimberly do not embarrass yourself #and also stop promoting eds because that actually does make you a bad person

[greypetrel]

Tagged by @n7viper and @idolsgf to make myself in this picrew - thank you very much! It was fun. :3 (Not doing the whole gang right now but if I tag you and you want to do/add characters, by all mean go!)

I was unhappy with the hair choices and so I kinda frankensteined two versions on Photoshop, oops. Also painted my eyeglasses green since I was already there.

I should go and trim my undercut back to this picture state, right now it's long-ish and the hair there likes to try and reach for the sky, some days it looks like I have horns, oops.)

tagging: @demandthedoodles (show off your new-gingerness!) @buridanshorse (tagging you on main, go with the sideblog if you're doing characters) @scribbledquillz @transprincecaspian @salsedine @deerna and you if you want to and I forgot!

#picrew #tagged #personal crap #I may wear them less with facemasks but I'm very proud of my green cat-eye glasses u_u #I looked for that shape for years before finding one that I liked and I looked good in! #I had a flash looking at Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefers Blonde and finally I have my own cat-eye glasses. u_u

[moontrinemars]

It's been so hard choosing which 10th Lord in Jupiter Nakshatra natives to choose for the post portraits... I only have 12 spots and it's so annoying because there's so many iconic and beautiful people... Like I had this struggle a little bit with the others and it's probably my bias but it's so much harder this time... Although I've been glancing at the Saturn natives and it seems like that'll also be this hard, so maybe I'm just biased toward the outer planets in general...

#wdym marilyn monroe kendrick lamar sidney poitier vincent price grace kelly kurt cobain and maya angelou are all purva bhadrapada 10th lords #wdym amelia earhart anne hathaway winston churchill ashanti spielberg scorsese dodi al fayad and billy idol are all vishakha 10th lords #wdym audrey hepburn william shakespeare stephen king courtney love david beckham aretha franklin and sharon tate are all punarvasu 10th lor #these aren't even all of them ofc but my goddddddddddd what the hell #now saturn nak 10th lords includes aaliyah. enough said there #mine #personal

[choppedupnotkilled]

Orin has somehow never heard of Elvis Presley.

#proship #proshipper safe #lsoh #little shop of horrors #orin lsoh #lsoh headcanon #elvis presley #personal post #the equivalent headcanon for Audrey would be that she's never heard of Marilyn Monroe... so lets add that one for fun lmao #even though she seems to be pretty aware of pop culture #that makes it funnier actually

[kanyniablue]

california, you’re a hole in my heart

#my art i guess #hetalia #hws america #historical hetalia #america x marilyn monroe #actually i think he's usually the one talking a hundred miles an hour & she's the type to make men say 'you're such a good listener' #but sure have a moment of her being the one talking for once. there's not a thought going through his head #do i think he was in love with her in the human sense of the word? no i dont think the Nations are capable of that #in the 'america's sweetheart' sense yes. the 'celebrity crush' sense sure. #and in the sense of a beautiful and fascinating person i think he wanted to be close to her as often as possible #and both on a personal level and a curiosity level he never got closure #anyway i have a lot of feelings about the 1960s. most of them are bad #cigarette #you can always tell when im going thru it bc i go back to my oldest steadiest fandom #hey at least im not in h*rry p*tter

[themarychain]

barry keoghan being on like 5 magazine covers lately is how I win

#newest issue of W magazine and he said that he has a type and that that type is marilyn monroe. #how he only dates blondes. this is how i win MORE #(devising a devious plan to become a famous actress so that he’ll know i exist and therefore date me) #(recreating my whole personality amy dunne style so that i can trap him into falling in love with me)

[realitysaconstruct]

Everyone’s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don’t know if I’m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself — or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another’s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other — yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept — as much as one can bear.

—Marilyn Monroe

#marilyn monroe #childhood #childhood issues #trauma #mental health #mental illness #hollywood #depression #quote #old hollywood #vintage #depressed #borderline personality disorder #manic pixie dream girl #inner child #childhood trauma #acting class #sex icon #Norma Jean #candle in the wind #norma jeane mortenson #everyone’s childhood plays itself out #self work #growing up #taking responsibility #learning about myself #subconscious mind #triggers #behavioral patterns #therapy

[septembersghost]

i like ana as a cuban myself and im glad she's making it, but she's been doing the most with the promotion of that film. oates was obsessed with sexual abuse and would romanticize it to hell and back and this is all so disrespectful. marilyn will never be left alone and she's dead. it's disgusting how she was never a person but a product and continues to be

ana's comments have been annoyingly tone deaf, but my issues are far more with the director, whose comments i find abhorrent, and the producers (amongst them br*d p*tt), and, netflix itself at this point (there was a report that netflix was "absolutely horrified" by the final cut - okay? you're the distributors, you can make the decision here), and the fact that for every woman online discussing this with deep concerns, or talking about being horribly triggered by it, or trying to defend and uphold marilyn's true memory, there are men replying, at best, "it's ~art~, you just don't get it," or at WORST (and i have seen this over and over again, i deleted my post about it the other night, but it's disgusting and deeply telling), openly excited at seeing the graphic r*pe scenes and the degradation threaded throughout the film, down to comments where they're replying with their whole chests that they can't wait to get off to it, down to the dude i saw who, when in response to a woman asking what is wrong with him that he wants to see marilyn fictionally assaulted, he said, "it's not about seeing marilyn being r*ped, it's about seeing ana de armas as marilyn being r*ped." they have no shame and no compunction about saying this aloud. and no doubt a lot of it is about titillation over marilyn herself, but marilyn has now been gone for so long and is so mythologized and commodified that she's no longer a real person, she's only a poster of a white skirt blowing in the subway breeze, she's only a body. it's been sixty years, and you'd think somehow she'd be treated more carefully and respectfully at some point.

it negates her humanity, her talent, and the reality of her abuse (why are we adding heinous fictional abuse onto the life of a woman who WAS subjected to abuse and hurt and objectification across her short life?). i have no idea if the film even touches on the medical trauma she endured, for example, both physical (particularly in regards to her endometriosis) and mental (and what she was subjected to during her forced hospital stay), but i know there's a depiction of a talking fetus, so that tells me enough. oates is someone i have countless issues with anyway, and blonde is neither the first nor the last time she fictionalized real life events in the most traumatic way possible with no respect for the victims. you're right, she seems to have a fixation on this topic.

what breaks my heart is i know this story reduces marilyn to a shell, a broken doll, the helpless dumb blonde beauty who was exploited and used by men for their pleasure, devoid of self-respect, desperate to be loved, dragging herself towards her tragic end, and that's not who she was. that's the boilerplate version that was sold of her. she was a sensitive, thoughtful, savvy woman; she was well-read, she was ambitious (do they even bother to mention her production company? her progressive politics? her wry humor? her extensive library? do they touch on, as the post i reblogged mentioned, her conversion to judaism and her studies?), she longed to be appreciated for her talent and not her physical form, she tried to improve and grow, and yes, she did yearn for love and belonging and a family and motherhood after an upbringing of neglect and abuse, but degrading and exploiting her further isn't the way to examine that or get it across. and idc how often they say this is a highly fictionalized account, plenty of people will watch it not knowing that, and take it as some semblance of fact (this happens with biopics all the time), and it's a disgrace to her legacy. i try not to be a proponent of saying certain art/stories within reason shouldn't exist, but there was no defensible argument for this to be made. marilyn is never allowed to be seen as a whole person. marilyn is never allowed to rest. exactly as you said, she's used as nothing but a product. this was her worst fear. she said, "i hope they don't do that to me after i'm gone." she deserves to be remembered as a person. she deserved better then, she unquestionably deserves better now.

not to give credit to arthur miller, but he said, "to have survived, she would have had to be either more cynical or even further from reality than she was. instead, she was a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes." they're still pulling at her clothes, at this point they're digging at her grave.

but let's ultimately look at marilyn's words, the real things she left us to consider, which matter most. she left us her films, her luminous image, but she also left us her poetry and written accounts of her life and interviews that are far more fascinating and relevant than any gratiuitous fiction could ever be.

marilyn said, in an interview given just before her death: "I never wanted to be Marilyn—it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane...I can always find Marilyn in the mirror."

"it's still about nudity. is that all I'm good for?"

"But when you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who is she, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature and it won't hurt your feelings. Like it's happening to your clothing. One time here I am looking for a home to buy and I stopped at this place. A man came out and was very pleasant and cheerful, and said, "Oh, just a moment, I want my wife to meet you." Well, she came out and said, "Will you please get off the premises?" You're always running into people's unconscious...Usually they don't say it to me, they say it to the newspapers because that's a bigger play. You know, if they're only insulting me to my face that doesn't make a big enough play because all I have to say is, "See you around, like never." But if it's in the newspapers, it's coast-to-coast and all around the world. I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other."

"It's nice to be included in people's fantasies, but you also like to be accepted for your own sake. I don't look at myself as a commodity, but I'm sure a lot of people have."

"It was the creative part that kept me going, trying to be an actress. I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife. Well, also, I had to eat. I was never kept, to be blunt about it; I always kept myself. I have always had a pride in the fact that I was my own."

"I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle. An actor is not a machine, no matter how much they want to say you are. Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer."

"There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you."

"I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child."

"Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden."

"I never quite understood it, this sex symbol. I always thought symbols were those things you clash together! That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing."

"I don't think people will turn against me, at least not by themselves. I like people. The "public" scares me, but people I trust. Maybe they can be impressed by the press or when a studio starts sending out all kinds of stories. But I think when people go to see a movie, they judge for themselves. We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves."

"It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you're always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, so long, I've had you fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live."

#anonymous #sorry this is long but it hurts and upsets me #as someone who has felt deeply about her as a person for a very long time #marilyn monroe #blonde #letterbox #blonde 2022

[outlawssweetheart]

My mother is a traumatized mentally ill Gemini with Mommy Issues, as am I, so it makes sense that Marilyn Monroe is the patron saint of our house. Marilyn Monroe merchandise and photos everywhere. There is even a giant MM puzzle collage in the hallway that my aunt made for my mom years ago.

#Literally insane. #marilyn monroe #gemini #mommy issues #personal #txt

[ragazzoarcano]

“Certe persone non ti odiano perché hai fatto qualcosa di male. Ma perché hai fatto qualcosa meglio di loro.”

— Marilyn Monroe

#persone #frasi persone #frasi odio #fare #meglio #frasi tumblr #frasi #frasi e citazioni #marilyn monroe