On KUOW's The Beat, Megan Sukys and Elizabeth Austen listen to Madeline DeFrees read “To Marilyn Monroe Whose Favorite Color Was White” and discuss the poem. Madeline's reading was recorded at the Seattle Central Library November 18, 2006, as part of a community celebration of her 87th birthday.
While she was often portrayed as a bit of a ditz, Monroe was very intelligent and a massive bookworm! Over her lifetime, the blonde bombshell had a library of over 400 books. She would often travel to bookstores, read a random book and if she liked it, it was hers. Monroe considered reading her favourite hobby.
Monroe loved wearing basic colors: beige, black, white and nude tones. The last time she wore red was at the 1958 “Gigi” movie premiere in Hollywood because the event called for wearing the color.
Lawford says that in "slurred" speech Monroe told him she was "tired and would not be coming" to dinner. Then, as her voice became less audible, she told him, "Say goodbye to Pat. Say goodbye to Jack [President Kennedy]. And say goodbye to yourself, because you're a nice guy."
For dinner, she never dined out. Instead of opting for the best restaurant in town, she'd stop at a market near her hotel for steak, liver, or lamb chops, which she'd broil herself using an electric oven. On the side, she'd eat raw carrots. And when she wanted to treat herself, it was all about an ice cream sundae.
But, she was also known for her love of dogs. Though she also once owned a cat and a parakeet, Monroe seemed to always have a pup at her side. Among her beloved pack of canines was a French poodle given to her by pal Frank Sinatra and dubbed Maf, which was reportedly short for Mafia.
As per the regime, Marilyn Monroe was not to eat any kind of nuts, chocolate, olives, oysters or clams or foods high in salt. New York City's Makeup Museum recently unearthed an artefact revealing Hollywood sensation Marilyn Monroe's diet and beauty regime.
Miss Monroe's physician had prescribed sleeping pills for her for three days. Ordinarily the bottle would have contained forty to fifty pills. The actress had also been under the care of a psychoanalyst for a year, and had called him to her home last night.
On the night of August 4, 1962, her friend Peter Lawford spoke to Monroe for what would be the last time.
No. Although Marilyn was married three times (first to James Dougherty, followed by baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller), she did not have any children before her death in 1962. However, she really wanted to have a family and did have multiple documented pregnancies.
She was a natural blonde
Monroe, who joined her first modeling agency as a curly haired brunette, was dedicated to doing whatever it took to get noticed. She started lightening her hair in the mid-1940s and was instantly hooked.
According to Vogue, the author Pamela Keogh noted that Monroe had her hair bleached every three weeks and swore by dry shampoo— baby powder on her roots.
Although her birth certificate gives her name as Norma Jeane Mortensen, she was later called Norma Jeane Baker. Many people do not know Monroe actually had naturally curly red hair. She realized early on the effect it had on men.
She fought not only for her own rights, but the rights of others too. She was not scared to be friends with minorities and people considered to be 'different. ' She was tolerant, she was brave and she was strong.
A carb-heavy lunch at 1pm, including a boiled egg, potato, spaghetti or noodles with bread or toast and cooked fruit or jello. And finally, a protein-based dinner at 6.30pm, with a choice of lean beef, chicken, lamb, sweetbread, chicken liver or fish and perhaps most surprisingly eggnog at 11pm.
1. Stewed Prunes. According to Laren Stover's 2001 book The Bombshell Manual of Style, Monroe would usually start her day at around 8 a.m. with orange juice or stewed prunes.
Marilyn Monroe (Actress)
He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: 'I don't need your Jesus'.
On August 5, 1962, Monroe was found dead from an overdose of barbiturates in her home in Brentwood, California. She was 36 years old.
Marilyn Monroe or James Dean are said to have been among the first to have veneers applied permanently and not just temporarily for filming. That's right, Marilyn Monroe and James Dean also (or already) had veneers.
Her dinners were impressively high-protein
Every night I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.”
Monroe's intelligence carried over to her beauty regimen. When it comes to wellness, Monroe was often ahead of her time. She favored dry shampoo—baby powder on her roots every two days—and often spoke of her disdain for excessive sun-bathing, citing skin damage.
Sinatra did indeed give Marilyn a Maltese terrier near the end of her life, a dog she rather wickedly named Mafia, or Maf for short (some claim the dog's full name was Mafia Honey).
Hugo was a Basset hound who lived with Marilyn and her third husband, Arthur Miller, at their East 57th street apartment in New York in the late '50's. Once, Marilyn and her friend Norman Rosten spoon-fed Hugo straight scotch to cheer him up. When Marilyn and Arthur split up, Arthur retained custody of Hugo.