Women's tricks Marilyn Monroe. In memory of the blonde number 1

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

In February 1955, she executed her will. After signing the document, the lawyer jokingly asked if she would like to add a wish about the epitaph. "Marilyn Monroe, blonde" - defended the star with sweet spontaneity. Fifty years have passed since her death. But until now, Marilyn remains the # 1 blonde, whose unique image no one has been able to properly copy.

Of course, in Hollywood, she was not the first charm with blonde hair. But she always tried to please everyone. Well, or almost everyone. There are many legends about Marilyn's numerous novels. Her psychoanalysts have repeatedly noted that the star with some kind of insane despair was given to men. But with even greater passion she surrendered herself to the public, for which she zealously created her image of a frivolous sex symbol.

In 1946, Norma Jeane was invited as a statistician to the 20th Century Fox film studio, where Marilyn Monroe was born.

Norma Jean Baker's career began in 1945. Then she tried herself as a model, and photographers were amazed how much she adores the camera and how seriously she prepares for a photo shoot. She created her own image. In 1946, Norma Jeane was invited as a statistician to the 20th Century Fox film studio, where Marilyn Monroe was born.

It took the actress relatively little time to become famous throughout the country. In October 1948, the film Chorus Girls, produced by Columbia Pictures, was released. This was the first film in which Marilyn spoke and sang. Then she meets at one of the parties with 20th Century Fox producer Joseph Schenk. Lover of beauties Schenk became interested in a pretty girl and agreed to protect her. A few days after the fateful acquaintance, Marilyn signs a contract with Columbia, but the director of the film studio sets a condition: she must become a spectacular blonde, like Jean Harlow, and have a permanent perm. This is how a beauty with platinum hair appears. And Marilyn begins to work on her image with even greater enthusiasm.

She tries to comb her curls only on the right side. And she pays special attention to hair color. For each film, the actress tried to choose a new shade: platinum, honey, amber, topaz …

- I need to dye my hair, I didn't have time, - once complained when she met Marilyn to her friend Truman Capote.

- I thought you were a real blonde …

- And I am a real blonde. But you don't just become a blonde by nature. Although I do not care about your opinion.

At first, the former actress, teacher of dramatic arts Natasha Lytess is engaged in the image of a potential star. Later, she will assure that she completely created the "legendary Marilyn", starting with the manner of clearly pronouncing "d" and "t" and ending with the trademark gait - her manner of putting the heel right in front of the toe of the other leg, swaying her hips. There is also a version that Monroe invented this trick herself and even ordered shoes with heels of different heights (one quarter of an inch lower than the other) for shoe makers. This assumption is supported by one of the phrases of the star, which became winged: "Give the girl a pair of good shoes, and she can conquer the world."

Marilyn was generally a great inventor. “Two things should be beautiful in a girl - the look and the lips,” said the diva. “She can make her fall in love with her eyes, but with her lips she can prove that she loves.” And therefore, she rarely appeared at social events without false eyelashes and invariably carried out a spectacular "arrow" on the upper eyelid. She herself created shades of lipstick (sometimes mixing several dozen lipsticks of different colors) to make her lips look plump.

There is even a version that Marilyn shaved her face. Something in between epilation and exfoliation. According to rumors, later, Elizabeth Taylor took note of such an original trick.

In short, she was a real genius when it came to looks. Just what her underwear was worth: Monroe was one of the first to figure out how to make a push-up bra. Officially, the first push-up developer and distributor is the Canadian Lady, which launched the Dream Lift Model 1300 (with underwire and cups) in the early 1960s.

But Monroe had a push-up prototype back in the mid-50s (if not earlier). It was a rather complex design: a kind of "double" cups, into which a rigid wire was sewn from below, which served as modern "bones". In the front, the bra was equipped with additional V-shaped straps that were attached in the center and connected to the main ones at the shoulders. This piece of underwear added an extra 2.5 centimeters of volume to the 36D star shapes.

Her luxurious hollow has been an object of admiration and has become almost as famous as her hair color.

Today, fifty years after the mysterious death of the diva, some fashion critics wonder why Marilyn's influence on fashion is still underestimated. After all, she influenced the formation of the style of modern women no less than the same Audrey Hepburn (by the way, Capote wrote the heroine of his novel "Breakfast at Tiffany's" specially for Monroe).

One has only to remember: a pink silk dress ("Girls' best friends are diamonds"), a white pleated dress ("The Seven Year Itch") or a translucent sequin-trimmed toilet in which Monroe sang Happy Birthday Mr President.

Long before these fashion brands became known all over the world, the actress wore Ferragamo shoes, Gucci handbags, Oleg Cassini and Emilio Pucci's outfits.

According to the biographers of the actress, she often worked with fashion designers in order to create an image suitable specifically for her project called "Marilyn Monroe".

“She feels small and insignificant,” her psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson once remarked. - At the same time, he is very proud of his appearance. She considers herself very beautiful, even the most beautiful in the world. When Marilyn is due to appear in public, she does everything to look seductive and make a good impression. But at home, when no one sees her, she doesn't care what she is wearing. Decorating her body is for her the main way to gain some stability, to give meaning to life. When I told her that really beautiful women are not always beautiful and there are moments and angles when they look just awful, she did not understand me."

Very often, her outfits were of great strategic importance. At the first meeting with Robert Kennedy (October 1961), she chose a long black dress that set off the marble pallor of the skin and favorably emphasized the bust. Dr. Greenson was categorically against such a toilet. In his opinion, this was a demonstration of self-destructive behavior, with which he had not been very successful in fighting for several years.

“You know, a few years ago I made a will and an epitaph,” Monroe told the psychoanalyst a few weeks after meeting Kennedy. - "Marilyn Monroe, blonde: 94-53-89". I'll probably leave it that way. Unless the measurements will need to be updated. " The measurements did not have to be updated.