Even if we have plenty of gorgeous modern divas, we're still looking up to Marilyn Monroe, the one and only 50s and 60s sex symbol. It's because of her if halter dresses are all the rage among pinups, and if beauty spots became a must in their makeup daily routine. We have recently talked a lot about Dita Von Teese, and it's safe to say that she is a modern Marilyn: she is also a natural blonde, whereas Marilyn was a natural brunette (photographic evidence is in the first image of the gallery below) Marilyn Monroe's real name was Norma Jeane Mortenson, a regular girl from Los Angeles: she began her career as a model, and started being casted for small roles in 1946. She got her first leading actress role in 1952 and her fame never stopped growing since. She started her career in magazines aimed at men likethese magazines didn't feature nudes, but only girls in bathing suits, negligees, towels and such "innocent to the modern eye" attires. She worked with a lot of photographers, the most important for her career being André de Dienes. Her most famous movies are "The Prince and the Showgirl", "Some like it Hot", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and "Bus Stop", which got her a Golden Globe nomination. Marilyn became the icon she is today also due to her troubled life, which led to an early end. She had always suffered from depression, and in her latest years she dreaded filming and made working on set with her a challenge. The last set that saw Marilyn Monroe was Something's Got to Give movie set: she was dismissed after 35 days of filming (of which she only actually worked 12 days) and replaced by Lee Remick.
On August 4 1962 she was found dead in her bed. The autopsy revealed an excess of barbiturates in her body, so she probably committed suicide; but we will never know for sure. What we know for sure is that she is the sex symbol and she'll always will be, and that she "imposed" a new way to look at the female body: she wasn't ashamed of showing it, she wasn't tall or very slim either, and she just looked like she was comfortable in her skin with her awesome smile. (even though she was very self-conscious, but the legacy she left got the better out of her troubled personality.) We are aware of the fact that she had the ideal 1950s and 1960s body, but we still look at her as a sex symbol and her body shape is a positive body image for today standards.
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
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