Femmes Fatales | Feb 13 2019 |
Who needs make-up when you have a face like hers?
This candid style shot purports to show Marilyn Monroe without make-up, but we suspect she at least has on a little something. In any case, lacking her usual mascara, eyeliner, and lipstick, she does have a nice fresh look. The photo was made while she was filming Ladies of the Chorus in 1948.
Vintage Pulp | Aug 13 2012 |
Sometimes success comes from out of the blue.
Marilyn Monroe was still largely unknown when her image, along with the descriptive “Cloudless,” was selected for the cover of this Picture Post, an immensely popular British photo magazine published from 1938 to 1957. Monroe had scored only one credited film role so far—in Ladies of the Chorus—and went the entire next year without appearing on a movie screen. It was during this time, having gone back to full-time modeling, that she posed for her famous nude set. The next year she landed a part in the hit drama The Asphalt Jungle and she was on her way. This issue of Picture Post appeared today in 1949.