Comments on: This is not photoshopped: Marilyn Monroe the bodybuilder

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By: formwiz

formwiz — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 17:31:31 +0000

By the end of the 50s, Marilyn was doing weights fairly regularly, as another spread in Life attested.

This isn’t as big a deal as it otherwise might be.

By: Musings from Brian J. Noggle » Blog Archive » Marilyn Monroe Was Stronger Than I Was As A Freshman

Fri, 04 Apr 2014 10:56:27 +0000

[…] has a lost picture of Marilyn Monroe lifting weights, and I feel like less of a […]

By: effinayright

effinayright — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:25:45 +0000

First time I ever “did it” with the young lady who wound up as my wife the last thirty years, I kept noticing her ..arms, which were beautifully developed—not from lifting weights, but from being a dancer.

(I also knew a woman who got her beautiful arms from using a pole to snag salmon out of rivers in Alaska–a different story altogether.)

By: Gringo

Gringo — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:56:21 +0000

An aunt of mine, who was about the same age as Marilyn, got married in 1948, which is why I am familiar with how she looked then, even though I wasn’t born yet: wedding photos. Years later, I saw a photo of Marilyn taken in 1948- before she was a blonde. The resemblance to my aunt in the same year was uncanny.

Like Marilyn, my aunt died an early, tragic death.

I vaguely remember being about 3 years old and going to a drive in movie with my parents to see a Marilyn Monroe movie. I fell asleep early on.

I have seen some Marilyn Monroe movies in my adulthood. She wasn’t just a dumb blonde. She definitely had some talent as a comic actress.

From RB Cramer’s The Dimaggio Nobody Knew:

Joe never said how he thought she died. But he made it apparent whom he blamed: the Kennedy boys (yeah, he knew about that), Sinatra (his former friend!), that snake Peter Lawford and all the rest of the rat-pack scum. He wouldn’t let them near her funeral–none of them. Producers, directors, flacks and stars–all equally unwelcome. The studio brass tried to reason with Joe: These are very big people! What can we tell them? “Tell them,” said DiMaggio, “if it wasn’t for them, she’d still be here.”

Argentina has Carlos Gardel. We have Buddy Holly and Marilyn Monroe. In Argentina, it is said that every day Carlos Gardel sings better. And every day Marilyn Monroe looks better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5JQ1m3mxKw Carlos Gardel- Volver

By: Conrad

Conrad — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 02:00:45 +0000

BTW, to anyone who is interested in such things, if you take a close look at the facts concerning MM’s death, it’s very clear that she was murdered — or at least that someone killed her, perhaps accidently.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 01:57:46 +0000

Here's that "why do they always look like unhappy rabbits" scene in All About Eve.

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 01:52:01 +0000

Neo, there was also her appearance in All About Eve in 1950, about which Roger Ebert said:

Glittering in the center of "All About Eve" is a brief supporting appearance by Marilyn Monroe. This film, and John Huston's "The Asphalt Jungle" earlier the same year, put her on the map; she was already "Marilyn Monroe," in every detail. She appears at Margo's party as DeWitt's date, and he steers her toward the ugly but powerful producer Max Fabian (Gregory Ratoff), advising her, "Now go and do yourself some good." Monroe sighs, "Why do they always look like unhappy rabbits?" It has been observed that no matter how a scene was lighted, Monroe had the quality of drawing all the light to herself. In her brief scenes here, surrounded by actors much more experienced, she is all we can look at. Do we see her through the prism of her legend? Perhaps not; those who saw the movie in 1950, when she was unknown, also singled her out.

By: southpaw

southpaw — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:55:41 +0000

Well the picture was taken before I was born, but I want to thank you Neo for the post. A beautiful woman wearing a bikini top is always a welcome sight.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 00:43:31 +0000

Oldflyer:

The article was in 1952, when she would have been 26. She had not yet become a star, but in 1953 “Niagara” came out and her fame began to rise.