Monroe/Russell

Posted on August 3, 2006 by sheila

The beauty is in the caught-by-the-camera candid feel of it.

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10 Responses to Monroe/Russell

  1. GNug says:
    August 3, 2006 at 5:03 pm

    WOW!!!
    Absolutely beautiful!
    Spellbinding!

  2. LOOK_CLOSER says:
    August 3, 2006 at 6:28 pm

    Honestly. I never thought MM was beautiful. But this picture is really breathtaking. And she IS beautiful..

  3. Ceci says:
    August 4, 2006 at 9:33 am

    She’s breathtaking… It’s impossible for me not to keep looking at Marilyn’s eyes, they are so expressive, and so lovely. That face!

    I was rather hoping there would be a MM reference, today of all days, and there it is! Happy place, indeed…

    Thank you, Sheila!!!!

  4. Marisa says:
    August 4, 2006 at 9:46 am

    I think the best pictures of her are the ones where she looks as though she isn’t really paying attention or is taken off-guard. She was always so prepared – she wouldn’t even leave her house on any given day unless her hairdresser and make-up artist got everthing just right! So seeing her in an uncomposed moment is so beautiful to me.

  5. red says:
    August 4, 2006 at 10:04 am

    Ceci – I love her kind of tousled hair in this photo.

  6. Ceci says:
    August 4, 2006 at 10:40 am

    Yes, Sheila, I was going to comment on the hair, and then just forgot, hahaha!! I was going to point out exactly that: the tousled look of it, it’s beautiful.

    But then, I love the way she did her hair through that year (1953).

    And yes, I can tell the year of any MM photo by the way she wore her hair. I’m crazy. :)

  7. red says:
    August 4, 2006 at 10:42 am

    Ceci –

    I LOVE THAT.

  8. Ceci says:
    August 4, 2006 at 10:45 am

    I knew you’d understand! ;)

  9. gene says:
    August 5, 2006 at 10:38 am

    Hi Sheila, just stumbled upon your Variations a couple of days ago and have been absolutely hooked.
    Thank you for some wonderful observations and your willingness to share. Hope you like this poem by Sharon Olds.

    “The Death of Marilyn Monroe”

    The ambulance men touched her cold
    body, lifted it, heavy as iron,
    onto the stretcher, tried to close the
    mouth, closed the eyes, tied the
    arms to the sides, moved a caught
    strand of hair, as if it mattered,
    saw the shape of her breasts, flattened by
    gravity, under the sheet
    carried her, as if it were she,
    down the steps.

    These men were never the same. They went out
    afterwards, as they always did,
    for a drink or two, but they could not meet
    each other’s eyes.

    Their lives took
    a turn–one had nightmares, strange
    pains, impotence, depression. One did not
    like his work, his wife looked
    different, his kids. Even death
    seemed different to him–a place where she
    would be waiting,

    and one found himself standing at night
    in the doorway to a room of sleep, listening to a
    woman breathing, just an ordinary
    woman
    breathing.

  10. dick says:
    August 7, 2006 at 9:36 pm

    I think they are both beautiful. I have always loved Marilyn Monroe’s looks but I also like Jane Russell’s as well. What I like about the two of them is that neither is artifically beautiful like so many of the Botoxed and plasticized women of today. They both have flaws but the flaws are really a part of the beauty if that makes any sense. Perfection in looks to me looks too artificial to be true beauty. It takes a little something not perfect to make a woman beautiful, as though the non-perfection makes her real. Perfection looks to me like a Barbie Doll and that is not something I would want.

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