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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy

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This captivating collection showcases Marilyn Monroe's unparalleled impact on fashion, featuring a range of her most iconic looks. From the unforgettable white halter dress in "The Seven Year Itch" to the glamorous gowns she wore, each image tells a story of Hollywood's golden era. The Bettmann Archives present Monroe not just as a star, but as a fashion muse whose style continues to inspire.

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe
Head shot of Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Talking with Reporters from Inside Limousine

Marilyn Monroe Talking with Reporters from Inside Limousine
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Visiting Serviceman

Marilyn Monroe Visiting Serviceman
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Toning her Leg Muscles

Marilyn Monroe Toning her Leg Muscles
(Original Caption) Just to change the scenery Marilyn shows off her shapely limbs while toning up her muscles

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Visiting Serviceman

Marilyn Monroe Visiting Serviceman
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Attending Award Ceremony

Marilyn Monroe Attending Award Ceremony
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: William R. RD of Hollywood Reporters Presents Trophy

William R. RD of Hollywood Reporters Presents Trophy
(Original Caption) William R. Wilkerson of Hollywood Reporters presents trophy

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Sitting in Dressing Room

Marilyn Monroe Sitting in Dressing Room
(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Actress Marilyn Monroe

Actress Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe in New York

Marilyn Monroe in New York
Portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald, novelist. Photograph dated 1926

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe as a Toddler

Marilyn Monroe as a Toddler
(Original Caption) Little Norman Jean Baker is hardly camera shy as she sits on a Model A Ford being photographed. Norma Jean, in later life Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Sitting and Holding Baby During Job

Marilyn Monroe Sitting and Holding Baby During Job
(Original Caption) A lovely newcomer to the screen is 18-year-old Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn is a former baby sitter who is now sitting pretty with a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Rehearsing Script with Coach Helena Sorell

Marilyn Monroe Rehearsing Script with Coach Helena Sorell

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Young Marilyn Monroe Posing in a Two-Piece Bathing Suit

Young Marilyn Monroe Posing in a Two-Piece Bathing Suit

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Actress Marilyn Monroe

Actress Marilyn Monroe
Young Marilyn Monroe, about 21, in a bikini at a swimming pool

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe as she appeared in 1947 at the start of her movie career

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe at 21, reading a magazine and wearing a demure dress. Her hair is still long and undyed

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Posing for Earl Moran

Marilyn Monroe Posing for Earl Moran
A young Marilyn Monroe poses for painter Earl Moran, for a picture in a calender

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Adjusting Baby's Diapers

Marilyn Monroe Adjusting Baby's Diapers
(Original Caption) As contented a pair of babies as one would hope to see. And why not with cute 18-year-old Marilyn Monroe, as their baby sitter

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Reading to Young Girl

Marilyn Monroe Reading to Young Girl
(Original Caption) Lovely Marilyn Monroe, former baby sitter now turned actress, proves that she hasn't lost any of her appeal for children

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Sitting on Couch with Babies

Marilyn Monroe Sitting on Couch with Babies
(Original Caption) Shown "brushing up on her home work" is cute 18-year-old Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn is a former "baby sitter" who got the break of her life through that profession

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Giving Bottle to Baby with His Brother in Basket

Marilyn Monroe Giving Bottle to Baby with His Brother in Basket
(Original Caption) Eric isn't too keen about taking his bottle, but he is slowly succumbing to the blandishments of his charming sitter, Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Standing over Babies in Crib

Marilyn Monroe Standing over Babies in Crib
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe is the babysitter in this photo. Females have been making males do things they didn't want to do since the beginning of time, and so, babies Eric and Dick

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Reading as Babies Keep Quiet

Marilyn Monroe Reading as Babies Keep Quiet
(Original Caption) The babysitter in this photo is Marilyn Monroe. Females have been making males do things they didn't want to do since the beginning of time, and so

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe; First Screen Test 1947

Marilyn Monroe; First Screen Test 1947
Marilyn Monroe undergoing a screen test in a puffy skirt, early in her career, when she was making Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Standing in Front of Camera with Director

Marilyn Monroe Standing in Front of Camera with Director
(Original Caption) Lovely Marilyn Monroe, former baby sitter who is now sitting pretty with a long-term contract at 20th Century Fox

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe at the Actors Studio

Marilyn Monroe at the Actors Studio
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe, who yearns to do dramatic roles in Hollywood, stares open-mouthed at the sign outside the Actors Studio here December 4th

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Groucho Marx and Marilyn Monroe

Groucho Marx and Marilyn Monroe
(Original Caption) Groucho Marx and Actress Marilyn Monroe in a scene from movie Love Happy 1949

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Doll

Marilyn Monroe Doll
(Original Caption) As if she's ever been out of it, the late Marilyn Monroe is back in the spotlight as '50s fever grips those who keep up with the latest trends

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Doll

Marilyn Monroe Doll
(Original Caption) As if she's ever been out of it, the late Marilyn Monroe is back in the spotlight as '50s fever grips those who keep up with the latest trends

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Wearing Fur Coat

Marilyn Monroe Wearing Fur Coat
(Original Caption) Actress Marilyn Monroe snuggles into her fur coat to escape the icy winds at La Guardia airport here March 18th

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe in Two-Piece Ermine Outfit

Marilyn Monroe in Two-Piece Ermine Outfit
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe wears this Ermine number in the Marx Brothers' Love Happy

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Young Marilyn Monroe

Young Marilyn Monroe
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), American film star and sex image, poses demurely in a strapless evening gown, early in her career

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe posing as "Miss Morale of the Marine Corps"

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Practicing Etiquette

Marilyn Monroe Practicing Etiquette
A young Marilyn Monroe takes an etiquette, here learning the art of sitting

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe
(Original Caption) Movie blonde Marilyn Monroe (left) was named America's "Worst Tressed" actress April 8th because she looks like a "shaggy dog." Miss Monroe gained the title in a poll of beauty

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Posing with Women of The Armed Forces

Marilyn Monroe Posing with Women of The Armed Forces
Marilyn Monroe stands with women from (l to r) the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Entertaining Troops

Marilyn Monroe Entertaining Troops
American movie actress Marilyn Monroe entertains a group of soldiers in Korea

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe in Makeshift Dressing Room

Marilyn Monroe in Makeshift Dressing Room
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe in her makeshift dressing room at the K-47 airbase in Chunchon, Korea

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe with Airmen

Marilyn Monroe with Airmen
Marilyn Monroe stands with several Army Airmen and a helicopter, while entertaining the troops in Korea

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Entertaining the Troops

Entertaining the Troops
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe entertaining the troops. Large crowd, stage off in the distance

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe
(Original Caption) Miss Morale...That's what the First Marine Division calls Marilyn Monroe. The boys are on their way to Korea

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Scene From All About Eve

Scene From All About Eve
(Original Caption) Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, and George Sanders in a scene from a movie: All About Eve

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe
(Original Caption) Television will run an hour long biography 11/30 on Marilyn Monroe and Hollywood wwill view the show with mixed emotions

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Posing with a Turkey

Marilyn Monroe Posing with a Turkey
(Original Caption) 11/10/1950-Hollywood, California- Wearing a costume that is half-Puritan, half-chorine, pretty Marilyn Monroe seems to have little desire to hunt turkey after finding this gobbler

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe in Off-the-Shoulder Dress

Marilyn Monroe in Off-the-Shoulder Dress
(Original Caption) The editors of the The Stars and Stripes U.S. occupation forces newspaper, announced their unanimous choice of "Miss Cheesecake of 1950"

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Doing Stretch Excercise

Marilyn Monroe Doing Stretch Excercise
(Original Caption) 1951-MUSCLE TONING... "You have to put enough into this routine, " Marilyn says, so that you excercise most of the muscles of the body

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Lying On The Grass

Marilyn Monroe Lying On The Grass
(Original Caption) 1951-Miss Cheesecake-Invigorating: Shedding shoes and walking barefoot on the grass or even lolling as Marilyn Monroe is doing here is the most invigorating pursuit I know

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe on Tip Toes

Marilyn Monroe on Tip Toes
(Original Caption) 1951: Marilyn Monroe shows what she means here when she says "you have to walk so that it makes you tingle"

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Posing in Bathing Suit

Marilyn Monroe Posing in Bathing Suit

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe In Twisting Pose On Feet

Marilyn Monroe In Twisting Pose On Feet
(Original Caption) 1951-MORE BOUNCE- You have to stop plodding like a horse and bounce, jiggle, wave and come to life when you walk. Like this--- Marilyn Monroe in strange twisting pose

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe as Valentine Cowgirl

Marilyn Monroe as Valentine Cowgirl
(Original Caption) 2/13/1951- Picture shows screen legend Marilyn Monroe posing in a sexy two-piece cowgirl costume and pointing her gun strait into a heart

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Exercising on Grass

Marilyn Monroe Exercising on Grass
(Original Caption) Reaching for the sky on tiptoe, the barefoot advocate shows how to keep those curves. Walking is the only exercise Marilyn takes to keep her figure at its present proportions

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Blowing On a Dandelion

Marilyn Monroe Blowing On a Dandelion
(Original Caption) "Miss Cheesecake" is but one of a series of titles given to Marilyn Monroe ever since she attended Los Angeles Emerson Junior High School where she was the class "Oomph Girl" a

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Sitting in Bathing Suit

Marilyn Monroe Sitting in Bathing Suit
(Original Caption) Relaxing on the set of Love Nest is actress Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe in Strapless Swimsuit

Marilyn Monroe in Strapless Swimsuit

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Cutting Cheesecake with Sword

Marilyn Monroe Cutting Cheesecake with Sword
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe, 20th Century starlet who was recently selected "Cheesecake Queen of 1952, " looks as delicious as any confection as she plunges a sword into a cheesecake

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe
(Original Caption) Screen Actress Marilyn Monroe, called by some "the hottest thing in town since Jean Harlow, claims she doesn't go out to many dates

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe in a Christmas Stocking

Marilyn Monroe in a Christmas Stocking
(Original Caption) 12/25/1951-Hollywood, CA- Hollywood's lucious Marilyn Monroe shows what a really well fitted Christmas stocking should look like

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Posing in Lingerie

Marilyn Monroe Posing in Lingerie
(Original Caption) Pert Marilyn Monroe, moviedom's newest blonde bombshell, now faces some pretty competition in the latest crop of beauties slated for eminence in films

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Henry Hathaway and Marilyn Monroe

Henry Hathaway and Marilyn Monroe
Director Henry Hathaway with Marilyn Monroe. Hathaway directed "The Cop and the Anthem" segment of O. Henry's Full House, an anthology of five different O. Henry tales from five directors

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Wearing USS Henley T-Shirt

Marilyn Monroe Wearing USS Henley T-Shirt
(Original Caption) The shirt off some sailor's back adorns the voluptuous figure of film star Marilyn Monroe, chosen as Miss torpedo by The Torpedo Gang of the destroyer U.S.S. Destroyer

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe in Nightgown

Marilyn Monroe in Nightgown

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Signing Autograph for Young Man

Marilyn Monroe Signing Autograph for Young Man. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe and Keith Andes

Marilyn Monroe and Keith Andes as Joe Doyle and Peggy, in Monterey for the filming of Clash by Night

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe with Cary Grant

Marilyn Monroe with Cary Grant

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe in Monkey Business

Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe in Monkey Business
Barnaby and Edwina Fulton (Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers) bicker in Monkey Business. Barnaby's secretary Lois Laurel (Marilyn Monroe) stands to the right

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe on the Beach

Marilyn Monroe on the Beach

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe poses with a sea-themed background

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe poses on a diving board above a swimming pool

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Checking Her Appearance

Marilyn Monroe Checking Her Appearance
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe looks in her pocket mirror and fixes her hair here. She is wearing a velvet dress and has a fur draped over her arm

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe
(Original Caption) Hollywood film star Marilyn Monroe relaxes on her terrace, looking beautifully content. Actor Hugh Marlowe told the voluptuous actress that she needn't worry becuase she's being

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe
(Original Caption) Hollywood film star Marilyn Monroe relaxes on her terrace, looking beautifully content. Actor Hugh Marlowe told the voluptuous actress that she needn't worry becuase she's being

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Joe DiMaggio Talks to Newsmen

Joe DiMaggio Talks to Newsmen
(Original Caption) 5/29/1952-New York, NY: Joe Dimaggio, retired Yankee slugger, taks to newsmen in the Press Room at Yankee Stadium in a pre-game discussion, May 29

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Joe DiMaggio and Dorothy Arnold Enjoying the Beach

Joe DiMaggio and Dorothy Arnold Enjoying the Beach
(Original Caption) Hollywood, California: DiMaggio's Ex Heading For Court. Joe DiMaggio's former wife, actress Dorothy Arnold

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Posing by Pool

Marilyn Monroe Posing by Pool
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe, considered for excellent and obvious reasons Hollywood's most exciting blonde since Jean Harlow

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Roller Skating

Marilyn Monroe Roller Skating
(Original Caption) Marilyn Monroe, bright new star of 20th Century Fox manages to look glamorous even in high-laced shoes and in teetering position as she comes to a halt in a roller skating lesson

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe In Bathing Suit

Marilyn Monroe In Bathing Suit
(Original Caption) 7/1/1952: Portrait of Marilyn Monroe in bathing suit. Unidentified man in background

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Climbing Lifeguard Tower

Marilyn Monroe Climbing Lifeguard Tower
(Original Caption) Portrait of Marilyn Monroe wearing a bathing suit posing by a lifeguard tower. Photo filed July 1, 1952

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Marilyn Monroe Sitting by Pool in Swimsuit

Marilyn Monroe Sitting by Pool in Swimsuit
7/1/1952-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Marilyn Monroe in swimsuit by pool side

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Marilyn Monroe: A Fashion Legacy: Head and Shoulders Portrait of Marilyn Monroe

Head and Shoulders Portrait of Marilyn Monroe
A HEAD AND SHOULDERS SHOT OF MARILYN MONROE. FILED JULY 1, 1952

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