her dress!!!
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MissSugarKane — 16 years ago(July 21, 2009 12:06 PM)
The dress she wore at the end of the movie was very similar in that respect it left little to the imagination! Look at this picture:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2nlbgbc.jpg
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jttrbglv — 16 years ago(July 24, 2009 10:33 PM)
Yes, Orry-Kelly won an Oscar for his Marilyn dress designs in SLIH! Deservedly so.
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sunwolf71 — 16 years ago(August 23, 2009 11:22 PM)
In black and white, you couldnt really see when the dress ended and the skin began. Incredibly risky for those days, I believe that dress still can be worn today without looking dated. But it would need an incredible good figure to fill it out.
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chester-copperpot-1 — 16 years ago(November 04, 2009 01:53 PM)
Look at the lighting of her and her dress when she's singing "I Wanna be Loved by You". They have a spotlight on her that ends just above her bust, her titties are in a shadowy light all the time. Nevertheless, those tits is everything you look at all the time anyway, in that scene, they are totally hypnotic. She was a sex-kitten none of this world, I can't imagine anybody before or since that embodies pure, naked and raw sexuality like that.
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Buckleigh — 16 years ago(March 23, 2010 04:34 PM)
Sunwolf, no one 'working' today could fill out that dress like MM. All the skinny bitches 'working' today have no figure.
In a way that's a good thing; we have the original, no need for a copycat.
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Stirchley — 15 years ago(March 07, 2011 11:44 AM)
I believe that dress still can be worn today without looking dated. But it would need an incredible good figure to fill it out.
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xenolambrose@yahoo.com — 12 years ago(December 07, 2013 06:56 PM)
I wouldn't think there'd be room for the both of them in
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williwaw — 13 years ago(May 11, 2012 05:00 AM)
In Cameron Crowe's Great Book 'Conversations With Wilder' Mr. Wilder said that MM unlike other stars paid little attention to costume, that Orry Kelly came up with the clothes for the Picture and MM wore them sans complaint. The dress in question is very very daring and when the picture was shown in a theatre during its initial release you could hear gasps, whistles and from some of the Men, sort of orgasmic groans. When MM gets into the boat with Tony Curtis with Lemmon and Joe E Brown in the front, she bends over and I saw the top of her crack.
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denis-38 — 13 years ago(May 20, 2012 07:59 AM)
Must have been one of Billy's "let's just make up a story about Marilyn" days. Of course she cared about her costumes! I can't say that after she stopped working with Billy Travilla (and gained weight) that her choices were always the best, but she sure cared. Photos of exist of Orry-Kelly fitting her, and MM in a dress that never appeared in the film. You don't think she demanded that her clothes for "Hot" fit her like a second skin, which was totally inconsistent with the period1929? If only she'd been so careful during "Let's Make Love," wearing that silver number for "Specialization" (a dress from her personal wardrobe) or that bulky blue sweater that made her appear plumper than she was.
I saw "Hot" in its second run (as they used to call it back then) in 1960. My mother, who loved Marilyn, took me. I was only a kid, but yes, I remember the entire theater erupting when the camera came in on Monroe singing "I Wanna Be Loved By You."
