![]() ![]() “I talked to her once on the phone, but I never met her. But the reality is that I never met her,” Hugh Hefner once said. “She was actually in my brother’s acting class in New York. Though Monroe appeared on the very first edition of Playboy, in 1953, the magazine’s silk robe–wearing founder never met the starlet. President” gown to the 2022 Met Gala-even if the piece was actually on loan from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum. The shoes were a little big for Moore, but the actress was committed to wearing them: “I’d make them work-stuff the toes or something.” Then, of course, there was Kim Kardashian wearing Monroe’s infamous “Happy Birthday, Mr. “Demi me to buy the boots so she can wear them,” Hilfiger said. The designer also bought a pair of square-toe cowgirl boots for $75,000 that Monroe wore in The Misfits and gifted them to Demi Moore. “They had a great fit, a great patina, a great fabric, a great hand feel-and she wore them while filming a great movie,” Hilfiger said. “It’s a shame-I wish somebody had the money to buy it all and put it in a museum.” Tommy Hilfiger purchased the blue jeans Monroe wore in 1954’s River of No Return for $37,000. “I wish her things didn’t have to be auctioned off,” Carey said. Mariah Carey bought the actress’s white baby grand piano, which originally belonged to Monroe’s mother, for $662,500 in 1999. Speaking of auctions, a number of celebrities have purchased Monroe mementos. and finally, she comes out with this unbelievably breathy, ‘Happy biiiiirthday to youuuu,’ and everybody just went into a swoon.” Monroe’s dress sold at auction in 1999 for $1.26 million, setting a record price for a single item of clothing. It was sewn on, covered with brilliant crystals,” Life photographer Bill Ray said in 2014. “It was skin-colored, and it was skintight. Kennedy in 1962 was so tight, she had to be sewn into the dress. “Another thing you may not know: Marilyn didn’t take the part in part because Paula Strasberg, her advisor and acting coach, said she should not be playing a lady of the evening.” Capote, author of the 1958 novella, was reportedly very disappointed that the studio went with Hepburn, saying, “ Paramount double-crossed me in every way and cast Audrey.” The nude, crystal-covered gown Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to John F. “She was Truman Capote’s first choice,” Sam Wasson, author of Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman, has said. Monroe was supposed to play Holly Golightly in 1961’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. While Monroe was filming her final movie, Something’s Got to Give, her stutter returned, making it very difficult for the actress to deliver her lines. Monroe’s signature breathy speaking voice was actually a tactic the actress used to overcome a childhood stutter.Ī speech therapist reportedly trained her to adopt the throaty style, and it ended up becoming one of her standout traits as an actress and singer. ![]() In honor of what would have been the legend’s 96th birthday, here, find five things you likely didn’t know about Marilyn Monroe. The band’s front lady Kate Ceberano is very famous in Australia, not in the least for her strong performance as Maria Magdalena in the Aussie version of the Jesus Christ Superstar rock opera.We’d be hard-pressed to find someone who didn’t know that Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but there was much more to the screen siren than her well-known stage name-and the radical reinvention she underwent to become one of Hollywood’s most iconic stars. So I’m guessing both songs have hit the Australian charts in 1985, one shortly after the other. On this version the B-side track Love Don’t Live Here Anymore is featured as main title on the front cover. Ī few weeks ago I received a message from Davide Manti, an Italian artist and Warhol cover collector from Bologna, that he has bought the exact same single, but the cover has the colours reversed (green lips, title in red). The lips are printed in red, as is the band’s name. One horizontal row of lips is missing, to make room for band name and title. ![]() It’s not an exact copy, but an abstraction of the left panel of the diptych. Its cover was borrowed from Andy Warhol’s 1962 diptych Marilyn Monroe’s Lips. The single has three tracks: Lead The Way on side A, Disko and Love Don’t Live Here Anymore – a Rose Royce cover – on the B-side. Kinney, a Warhol enthousiast from Milwaukee, Wisconsin – who prefers ‘old school’ crate digging at record fairs and in second hand shops way over searching the internet (respect!) – wrote me an email that on one of his hunts he had found an Australian maxi-single with a Warhol lips-cover, by a band called I’m Talking. With a little help from our friends, we will eventually manage to track down every Warhol cover or pastiche ever produced, worldwide. ![]()
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