When she was 16 years old, her foster parents moved and could no longer afford to keep her. In order to avoid having to go back to an orphanage, she married her first husband, 21 year old Jimmy Dougherty in June of ; apparently not entirely by choice, though this point has been disputed.
And so I got married. This worked out for her, though, in some respects, as she found herself working in a Radioplane plant where she was discovered by a photographer.
Before her husband returned from the war, she already had a successful career in modeling and would very soon launch her movie career. Shortly after he returned, they got a divorce partially due to the fact that he did not approve of her new career and how scantily clad she was in many of the photos. He treated me like something special. Joe is a very decent man, and he makes other people feel decent, too. I want to be a big star more than anything. She then spent time with him in Florida where he was working as a batting coach for the Yankees.
Concerned with her mental state and the people she had surrounded herself with, he tried to get her to marry him again so he could look out for her directly, but she refused.
DiMaggio was the one who a year later arranged her funeral. Marilyn Monroe was on the cover of the first ever Playboy magazine in After she became famous, it was discovered that the nude photo in the calendar was Monroe. Besides the initial amount she was paid when the photo was taken, she never saw a dime for it after, even though it made Hefner millions thanks to it instantly propelling his magazine into wide circulation, selling around 54, issues within week of that first issue being published.
Hugh Hefner purchased the burial vault next to Marilyn Monroe as his future place of final rest. And several celebrities have spread that view by calling her "fat" and a "size Marilyn Monroe at a charity show in New York in The actress is said to have worn a size 8 or 10, though sizes were different half a century ago. It was the same year she married baseball player Joe DiMaggio.
Marilyn Monroe sings to an audience of G. Apparently her low-cut, purple cocktail dress made a big impression. Another look at Marilyn Monroe in As for her dinner, that consisted of broiled steak or lamb chops with raw vegetables. The Seven Year Itch star was married three times. Monroe was only married to her second husband for nine months but, as PBS noted, the former New York Yankee great made a promise to put roses at her gravesite every week if she died before him.
He did so for more than 20 years after her death but stopped after the flowers kept getting stolen by fans. An inch is the distance between the tip of your thumb and the knuckle. I have studied photographs of Marilyn. Her heels were four inches high, Jane Russell towered above Monroe and Russell is said to have been 5 feet, 7 inches tall.
If Marilyn was three inches shorter, that would have made her 5 feet, 4 inches tall. By the way, Jane Russell's heels were not as high as Monroe's. She never wore heels shorter than four inches high and models always include heels, when they talk about their height. Marilyn was a model before she was an actress, so she included her heels when she talked about her height. Russell towered above Marilyn.
I would have called Jane Russell a tall woman, not Marilyn. It's doubtful Marilyn was 5 feet, 6 inches tall plus 4 inch heels. That would have made Marilyn 5 feet, 10 inches tall altogether. She stood next to a height chart and it showed she was 66" tall.
I would say 5ft 3. I believe today's average woman is all of 5ft5! That's quite a leap! So Marilyn, with her 5ft, was fairly tall, there's no getting away from it! The average must have been closer to 5'3. Don't know why some here are thinking Marilyn was some tiny girl, when she wasn't.
She wa an above average woman. Most of them are unhealthily underweight nowadays, the hourglass classic shapely look is much sexier.
Marilyn was really sweet, loveable, but doesn't do it for me in the way that Vivien Leigh and Ava Gardner did in terms of sexiness. She WAS Marilyn Monroe after all, and if every woman could claim such curves, there wouldn't have been such a to-do about her figure. She also had a rather angelic face so she really was made for the movies! I do think though that it does help to keep the waist measurement as petite as possible if you work at it!
Also, I believe she was lbs at her best. She might have eaten her way up to lbs at times of intense depression, poor girl, but when you see her dinky little form on the screen, lbs is surely the more likely! Didn't women from that era have gorgeous figures?
It's a shame that all of today's labour saving devices to cut physical exertion is ruining our womanly waistlines, unless we go out of our way to find alternative methods of trimming down what we all regard as an important focus of our figures! She was crying a lot. So was I. Weak 5' 6" is the height. Good catch, jtm.
As Judge Judy often says, "Truth-tellers don't need to have good memories. I mean she looked absolutely gorgeous but her bra size for example has never been a 36D as stated everywhere. Her bust was allegedly 37 inch measured at its peak so it makes her only a 36B. She only wore dresses that enhanced her breasts.
Her breasts look very small in each of her nude shoots. She also looks much shorter next to Marlon Brando for example. Since Brando wasn't a tall man just average and Marilyn was surely wearing heels she still looks inches shorter than him. Also worth noting that she looks significantly shorter than Jane Russell who was only 5'7 herself while they are wearing the same high heels.
I doubt that Marilyn was 5'5. I think she added an extra inch or two to her real height. I am cm definitely and this was one of the few wax models that does not seem to match their height description.
Official documents routinely list innacurate heights. I'd bet half the US driver's licences as well as passports have inflated heights listed. That said, I believe Marilyn was at least 5'4" and could have been 5'5". S female. Certain body proprtions can make you look tall or short but they don't actually tell you the exact height. Somebody might look tall or short but doesn't always mean they are. She really does look very beautiful and lovely in that film.
Most of the 50s though she looked too tacky and platinum blonde for my taste. She had beautiful innocent looking eyes though and a cute smile. He was 2 or 3 inches taller and she was in heels! Doubtful she was even 5'5''. She looked taller onscreen or in stills because she was very photogenic, but next to Russell Look at her with 5'7'' Jane Russell.
He always reckoned Monroe was the same height as his MOther which was around 5ft 4. Spot on I'd say at 5'5. Search it for yourself. I believe she was short, and not skinny Attractive yes, but not a natural beauty. I don't think she looks sooo small at all, in fact I think the could look tallish at times, average at others, not short like somebody like Teresa Wright or Debbie Reynolds.
For some reason I've got the feeling that she smelled of greasy chips and bacon. Something made me think that she'd smell of fat, lord knows why!! In her pics with Cary Grant from Monkey Business, she makes him look shorter than I've seen him look any place else.
He looks often approximately 5 inches taller than her, not around 8 inches. I stood next to her representation in the same pose, wearing the same height of heels and we looked almost exactly the same height - I am 5'3 possibly and a half. Ask your doctor, ladies. Please do not put impossible or unhealthy expectations on your own body according to someone's opinion. I am 5'5" and a normal build. I went to my doctor because I felt my weight was out of control and he told me I was only 20 lbs.
I thought I was over 60 lb. It's just the way we are supposed to be. All of us can't be 90 lbs. That's unhealthy and unattractive People. Llke- Marilyn and Anna were beautiful. Unforgettable and memorable. Other world nations are catching up to us quickly so don't marginalize Americans. I have read most books about her and it is a fact printed in most. I saw a picture of her with her and some black guy hand-to-hand, and Marilyn's elbow was an inch lower than the man's.
Her underwear was sold at an auction a few years back and some of her bra's were a 38c which meant she would have had a 40 inch bus measurement, being as she was prone to being a pear shape her hips would have matched that to. Personally I think she looked better with more weight but even at her heaviest she would'nt have been classes as 'overweight' just up towards the top end of her BMI. I am nearly having a similar figure to Marilyn.
I am not considered fat at all infact my bmi is underweight. Marilyn was not fat. Look at her waist,arms and legs. Very slim. And she wasn't any voluptous She was ;very perfect and her bmi must be like 18 or 19 tops. Her official site may round this to 5 foot 5. Shorter than most thought and closer to Taylor she often wore heels that added height.
She had a very small ribcage. I think that this is as accurate as it gets. Perhaps 5'6" tops. Marilyn Monroe was luscious when she was made up but, take off the makeup and the face was so different. Almost unrecognizable. Lovely in a different way.
Elizabeth Taylor without makeup was absolutely breathtaking. Her skin and coloring were incredible. You couldn't take your eyes off her. Yes, her eyes are lavender. And, yes, she was short, about 5ft 3. Marilyn was a bit taller. I was also surprised how short Raquel Welch is.
She looks so statuesque in films. To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. I am from Australia and too poorly know English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: "Looking for a cheap hotels or airline tickets to europe we have the.
Curves and that kind of height are great and to those who are comparing their mesurements to hers you dont have her genetics so your not the same. It doesn't matter what height or weight your are or what others think as long as you are happy its alright.
Remember Ms. Monroe for the bright genuine and talented lady she was not what she looked like or how much she weighted. But yes she was the sexiest woman ever and extremely talented. Very sexy very curvy. Monroe was probably just under 5"6, let's not forget that she was also a model as well as an actress therefore she was probably at least a little bit taller, not that of matters she is sexy sexy unique gorgeous lovable no matter what.
Marilyn Monroe autopsy is written 5. Case closed. In any of her movies, and so many photos where she is standing next to other stars , etc. Not to tall and can securely carry pounds and have a small waistline. Considering Angelina Jolie is somewhat of a new age Marylin Monroe. Marylin is way more gorgeous, well proportioned physically and taller.
As for her weight in "Some Like it Hot"-I read somewhere that she was actually pregnant during the filming of this-hence why her weight was obviously heavier than in other films. Anyway, no matter what her weight, she had the most gorgeous figure in Hollywood-in my opinion! The official measurements keeps changing. Her autopsy report listed her height at cm long. While others list it at cm. Most people who met her recall that they were startled at how tiny she was.
I don't think that we'll ever get to the bottom of this controversy. Most women with her height and dress size are going to be significantly lighter because they lack the considerable amount of muscle and fat monroe had in her legs. This is not a factor in dress measurement, although if tight pants were as popular in monroes day as they era now, she might have had trouble selecting some that her legs would fit into.
She was quite tall, remember Liz Taylor was much shorter, barely 1,61 m. Barbra Streisand is 1,64 m shorther than Marilyn. Madonna is 1,61 m much shorter.
Gina Lollobrigida was 1,63 m she was short. She was at least 5 ft 5. I see her today in a movie with Cary Grant who was a tall man and she was really not small next to him, she was reaching him at the level of his eyebrows!
I was a lot surpised of it because I was always thinking she was not more than 5 ft 5. I'm about that height and weight, but I've got 28 waist, 41 hips. I am so tired of people calling her volumptous and curvy when she was just clearly showing off more flesh then other actors from the 50's! So according to him she didn't even look short. If her autospy report said 5'5. I've been looking at pictures of her, she was nicely shaped - I'd always thought she was bigger, because these days curvy is synomomous with "fat" lol.
I don't think her shape would have made her look a lot shorter. Many of her recent fans seem to like her because of her curvy figure which they seem to imagine to be bigger than it was.
Well, I'm sorry to say, she had a nice figure, NOT dumpy, and she was tall. I think she needs to be upgraded to or 5'6". She was stunnigly beautiful and knew what she wanted for herself.
And that's all that matters. None of that nasty 5'11'' 90lbs model look they pretend is pretty today. It can be seen Marilyn and Cyd Charisse together. Both are using high heels in the scene and Marilyn's height is almost the same of Cyd Charisse, only 1 inche or less shorter.
However, she was by no means fat. Not incredibly thin, but that's what made her appealing. She wasn't a stick, but curvy. And she was quite tall for her era. More like 5'1"-2". Sorry but I don't agree. A woman whose height is 5'5. I'm exactly like that, now, and I'm NOT fat. So waht has happened that average today for woman is a tad above 5'4". Maybe 5'6" was average at your school which would still be strange I expect the refers to her weight towards the end.
Click Here Editor Rob. It did say lbs for years, before they made up a lower weight range after I saw it. Here's proof, from the archive Here. I reached that height in 8th grade and was taller than most of the boys my age. By the time I graduated most of the boys had caught up. Also, pounds is the weight I should weigh at my age for my height.
A woman of 36, which what Marily was when she died, would have been at her average weight and height and by today's dress sizes in a Back in the day, all the actresses had their vital statistics listed below any photo taken of them.
It is unheard of now to list that. Curves were in fashion and there was nothing wrong with them. Curves were in until Twiggy came into fashion around the late sixties and early 70's. These girls today are "twiggy" and ugly.
I would prefer to look like Marilyn if I had my wish. So 5'5" and lbs. Whatever, she had it and no one since her has kept our imagination for as long except maybe Lady DI. Please if you love Marilyn do not do this to yourself, as you will not be able to get the picture out of your head infact you would not be able to even recgonise her.
I ready the autopsy report and it clearly stated she was at death 5ft 5. It is strange because she always looked quite short in some of her films but she was very very curvaceous, infact she looked like how I feel a woman should look, and this could make a woman appear shorter.
So I agree she was definately 5ft 5. Judging from pictures standing next to Marilyn I would put him at 6'1. She said that Marilyn's height was 5' If so, what is your opinion of her? Was she as beautiful as they say? What did people really think of her acting? I recently watched "There is no business like show business" and I do believe she was shorter than 5 ft5. Donald Tim looked really short and Marilyn standing face to face with him and wearing heels was the same height.
She had a double chin in that film.. Around the time of her death, she did look much thinner, having gone on a crash diet after The Misfits, and the pound number seems credible. Most of her acting career she was heavier than that. I personally do not feel 5'5 is short at all, I'm only 5'10 and I feel that is about average. Yeah man. Smart comment. Come on go on You talk nonsense!!! Today this height may be short even though it's not!!
Man comments like these tick me off! She was also pregnant. In , she weighed lbs. Look at nude photos of her taken by Tom Kelly in She has small but beautiful breasts and a flat washboard tummy. In , Bert Stern took nude photos of her.
She was very thin. Thinner than she was in Months after the photos were taken, she was dead. You can't argue with the autopsy report of her weight and height.
It is fact. Bill Travilla, who designed her pink Diamonds dress, her white Seven Year Itch dress, and numerous others said in that she was actually very short, approx.
He also said her breasts were padded a bit and she often wore falsies to give the impression she went braless. And finally, Christie's Auction house in their auction of Marilyn's personal items said all of her gowns that were not on hangers or tables were modeled on size 4 mannequins and forms, which surprised them because they believed she was larger than that.
Maybe she was 5'4", maybe 5'5". Not much difference there at all. We're not talking the difference between 5'1" and 5'9" here. I'm 5'7" and lbs, which has been "officially" measured many times, and people estimate my height between 5'6" and 5'9" and my weight always under , and those are all people who know me personally and could claim to be authorities. But they would be wrong! A website like this is fun, to be sure, but it's all speculation unless you have the celebrity on hand, along with an accurate measuring system!
Not what I expected. I was told she was 5'2" Haha, I was really off I guess.
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