May 4th, 2009 -- by Bacchus
Marilyn Monroe In Bloomers
Lovely shot, but I don’t have any attribution for it except the marilyn-monroe.jpg filename:
If anybody knows what movie this is from (or is publicity in aid of) I’d be happy to have that info contributed in the comments.
Update: The sense of the house in the comments is that it’s not Marilyn but possibly might be Stella Stevens, Miss January 1960. See comments for details; no need to pile on with your additional “that’s not her” comments, though any firm link to the same photo with an attribution somewhere would be valued.
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Gosh I have no idea but what a great picture. The hair is throwing me off. She didn’t have hair that long in any of her films… at least not that I can recall.
Are yo sure? She looks like Stella Stevens in “The Ballad of Cable Hogue”. It’s a 1970 Sam Peckinpah film.
I”m not entirely sure that’s Marilyn Monroe but DAMN it’s cute.
To be honest I’m not sure — I took that info from the filename, and I thought it was plausible even though the face doesn’t look quite right to me. I’ve got a sort of broken face-matching algorithm in my head — what some people call face-blindness — so I tend to distrust my instincts and rely more heavily on metadata than I probably should.
After further Googling, I find Garry’s ID more compelling than my second-hand metadata. I Googled up Stella Stevens in her Miss January 1960 Playboy centerfold spread, and asked The Nymph (who is not faceblind) to compare — she said “same person” without hesitation.
Very cute, agreed, I wonder who’s just surprised her… or was she expecting them? ;-)
I’m quite relieved to have found that I’m not the only person who’s rubbish at distinguishing different faces.
I accepted your description without question, and it’s only after the correction has been posted that I find myself going, “Oh, I suppose it doesn’t look exactly like Marilyn after all.”
Faceblind – a word I will use more frequently in future!
I don’t care who it is, she is alright in my book.
Mitty
Face-blindness, or prosopagnosia, affects about 2% of the population, so you’re not alone. Just recently, someone mistook Cher for Howard Stern, and got an earful from the offended diva.
Is it Donna Douglas from the movie with Elvis? Frankie & Johnny?
It looks like Katherine Heigl in a posed vintage shot…
Check out The Prince and The Showgirl, Marilyn made in England with Laurence Olivier. A stage hand opens a door in a theatre where Mariyn is working, she is freshening up at a sink – this must a an (unused?) publiity shot.
If it really turns out to be Monroe, the
movie would have to be River of No Return
with Robert Mitchum 1954 directed by Otto
Preminger. There’s a scene that’s
reminiscent of the pose but I can’t find it
in the publicity stills on IMDB.
(I remembered the plot, the actors and
couldn’t for the live of me remember the
title.)
Bacchus and commenter #11 were right. It’s Marilyn from the movie The Prince and the Showgirl, according to this site which shows her in a similar pose in the same outfit:
https://www.pinterest.com/baker9144/the-prince-and-the-showgirl-1957/
Good work people! I’m happy to have the Marilyn attribution confirmed.