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Most Bootylicious Marilyn Monroe Pic Ever?

Posted by Bryan Christian

We know nothing about this image other than we found it here. It sort of almost doesn't make any sense, right? Like, it's almost too modern looking. You think it's a fake? Any of y'all photo fans got a provenance on it?

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Posted May 22 2008, 01:51 PM

Filed under: marilyn monroe, booty

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Baron Von Monkeychow said:

Well... If it's a fake, it's a very good one.

But you all know she's looking right at me, right?

May 22, 2008 3:38 PM

liquidmorpheme said:

I don't have provenance, but I've seen another photo which I assume is from the same shoot (she's wearing the same clothes, the grain and contrast of the film look the same) which is definitely her lying on a weight bench with two small freeweights. I saw it in a collection of postcards of movie stars. - aha, <a href="images.google.com/imgres it is</a>

May 22, 2008 5:33 PM

KK said:

It's not fake. It's from the same Phillipe Halsman shoot where she's lifting dumbells. Same jeans, same bikini top. I know of a better bootylicious shot of MM, though. It's a De Dienes where she smiling, legs over her head.

May 22, 2008 6:43 PM

Maxwell Hammer said:

Yeah, it's gotta be a fake. No one crawled around in halter tops and jeans until after trailer parks were invented....which was 1971 in Winter Haven Florida.

May 22, 2008 8:59 PM

About Bryan Christian

Bryan Christian has worked as a writer for Epicurious, GenArt and ID magazine; a web producer for WWD and Condé Nast; and a cameraman for his friends. He's married and lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

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