#and Marilyn Monroe

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe posing for a Polio vaccination campaign, January 28, 1958. Photo by Milton Greene.

[wh0-is-lily]

Margaret Qualley photographed for the Golden Globes

[audreys-hepburn]

SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959 — dir. Billy Wilder

[lindadarnell]

Marilyn Monroe in NIAGARA 1953 | Henry Hathaway

[ultraviolets333]

"Um, do you think you'll buy me lots of diamonds?"

[whiskeylover75]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Greene, 1953. ❤️🥰🌹

[classicfilmsource]

Marilyn Monroe as Roslyn Taber in The Misfits 1961 | dir. John Huston

[aristoteliancomplacency]

Beans.

My partner and I have a running joke with a friend. Every time he goes on holiday we increase the quantity of beans in his flat.

The first time we bought ~30 cans of kidney beans and hid them around the house like some Easter egg hunt thing but with beans.

The Second time we bought ~6kg dried white beans and hid those in various places. Nearly every receptacle that could safely hold beans became the home of beans. My personal favourite was emptying an oat milk carton, very carefully washing and drying it, filling it with beans and then just putting it back among several other cartons.

He went on holiday again a couple of weeks ago. Obviously there is an expectation of bean-based shenanigans. And obviously we have to beat our previous efforts.

Our friend has (had) a mosaic on his wall of the famous Marilyn Monroe Pop-Art by Andy Warhol. He made the mosaic himself. Over the last couple of weeks we have spent hours and hours assembling a frame, drawing up a pattern and gridding out a 70 x 70 frame and gluing an untold amount of beans to it. I have spent over 21 hours gluing beans to a frames.

For the last couple of days I ended up going to bed at 5:00 am because I lost track of time whilst experimenting with which types of glue works best with different beans (I now have *opinions* on this, y’all). The day of our friend’s return we spent the morning and afternoon grouting the piece and wiping it down and wiping it down again and wiping it down again because grout is just like that. In the evening we went to install the mosaic, just a few hours before his return. Here’s a comparison between the original and our clearly superior replication, and the new piece installed in its rightful place.

[hailruth]

a siddur belonging to marilyn monroe, complete with her annotations in pencil. many remember her as a sex symbol who lived a difficult life, but few know of her conversion & devotion to judaism. "everybody's always out to get them, no matter what they do," said monroe. "like me."

[orlaite]

Marilyn Monroe as Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959)

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe practicing ballet, 1949. Photos by J.R. Eyerman.

[wh0-is-lily]

Shelley Duvall, 1970s

[summertimenoir]

Marilyn Monroe in Bus Stop (1956)

[lindadarnell]

Marilyn Monroe in NIAGARA 1953 | Henry Hathaway

[zoirohs]

Marilyn Monroe in SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) dir. Billy Wilder