Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe: The Metamorphosis




In My Week with Marilyn, Michelle Williams captures Marilyn Monroe’s struggle to reconcile her two identities: Norma Jean, the apple-cheeked girl next door, and Marilyn Monroe, the droopy-eyed Aphrodite. Norma Jean didn’t stand a chance. Marilyn: Intimate Exposures, by Susan Bernard, is a stunning collection of images that track Norma Jean’s transformation into Marilyn. In early, rarely seen glamour photographs by Bruno Bernard, known as Bernard of Hollywood, you see a 20-year-old Norma Jean with an eager smile and wide eyes, doing pinup poses with a very un-pinup expression. It’s hard to believe it’s the same woman who seduced a nation just by whispering through a verse of “Happy Birthday.” Bernard’s photos were used as the covers of the pre-teen pulp series “Teen-age Diary Secrets” (in one, Marilyn wears a snug orange sweater, with the photo caption “I played Kiss and Run”) and Laff magazine (a mix between Mad and Playboy), as well as in print advertisements for pharmaceutical companies. Later he photographed her on movie sets, snapping the immortal subway-grate photo from The Seven Year Itch. In addition to hoping to show “the metamorphosis from Norma Jean in 1946 to the famous flying skirt, Marilyn Monroe the star,” book author and Bernard’s daughter Susan told Vanity Fair she wanted to “take the reader on a journey through the osmosis between photographer and his subject.”

The Marilyn Files

You can tell a lot about a woman from the things she left behind. These images of Marilyn Monroe’s records and personal effects, lovingly photographed by Mark Anderson, reveal the woman behind the tragic icon. Monroe kept all kinds of mementos and baubles—from her childhood, from her travels, from her friendships—that held special meaning for her.




Explore more than 500 never-before-seen images of Marilyn Monroe’s lost treasures.

Marilyn Monroeren erakusketa ikusgai, Bilbon

Marilyn Monroe aktore ezagunaren jantziak eta beste hainbat objektu batzen dituen 'Marilyn íntima/Intima Marilyn' izeneko erakusketa inauguratuko dute eguenean, urriak 25, Bilboko Zabalguneko eraikinean.

Maite Mínguez Ricart erakusten den bilduma.

Bilbao 700-III Millenium Fundazinoak jakinarazo dauenez, erakusketan, zinerako diseinautako jantziak, bizitza pribaduan pantailatik kanpo erabili zituan erropak eta mito zinematografikoaren beste objektu eta agiri batzuk izango dira ikusgai.

Danetara, ia ehun jantzi eta objektu batu dira erakusketan. Helburua bisitaria XX. mendeko ikono handienetako baten bizitzan murgiltzea da.

Erakusketea abenduaren 9ra arte egongo da zabalik, Zabalguneko eraikinean.

En Hollywood te pueden pagar mil dólares por un beso, pero sólo cincuenta centavos por tu alma.

Las nuevas imitadoras de Marilyn:

En mis fotos se ve el cuerpo de una manera diferente, como si también mostrara el alma. Siempre tendemos a separar el cuerpo del espíritu o el cuerpo de las emociones.

O las de la intuición. Nos vuelven locos. Que placer.

Posdata: Norman Mailer

"Esperé durante meses que Arthur Miller me invitara a cenar, pero nunca lo hizo y nunca le perdonaré. Quería conocer a Marilyn Monroe para podérsela robar. Robársela a su marido. Un criminal nunca te perdonaría por evitar que cometieras el crimen que realmente anida en su corazón".