Monroe

I sat around in pjs (they were satin too) watching Marilyn Monroe movies today--I had never seen a single movie of hers before today, and the only thing I knew about her is that she killed herself and that people are all the time posting probably-fake inspirational quotes from her on facebook.  Oh, and assholes like Lindsay Lohan love to pretend they are like her, but that's not her fault.

Anyway today I learned the following today from watching The Seven Year Itch, Niagara, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes:

1.  This picture?  Arguably one of the most famous MM photos of all time?  NEVER HAPPENED.  It never happened in the actual movie! What the fuck??  During the scene itself, she stands over the subway grate, and they show little snippet shots of her legs from mid-thigh down with the skirt being blown up from her calves, but this actual shot NEVER HAPPENED.  To be frank, my mind was kind of blown.

 

2.  That guy in the photo?  He's supposed to be 38.  HAHAHA.  Either that guy is late forties at the very inside, or we have taught men to take better care of themselves nowadays.  One way or another, that's one of the most rode-hard examples of 38 I have ever seen. 

 

3.  This dress??  Yowza.  Women don't look like this anymore.  Or more specifically, they aren't supplied with clothing that makes them look like this any more.   

 

 

 

4.  She was funny.  Like actually funny, and the whole acting cute/like an idiot was a big part of it.  I was very surprised.  I'd like to think that she was in on the joke, that she knew how ridiculous she acted, and that she thought it was funny that men liked it.

 

5.  Women are always like "Marilyn Monroe was a size 14!" and shit like that.  We have GOT to stop lying to ourselves about that.  Maybe, MAYBE she was like, a 50's size 12 at her biggest, back when everyone was very thin anyway, but in today's sizes?  I would say a 6, possibly even a 4.  Let's stop lying to ourselves about something that we can see with our own two eyes--pretending that MM was a size 14 won't make our fat asses any smaller. 

 

Um, well that's it so far, maybe I'll come back with some more after I watch Some Like It Hot.