missnormajeanes: perfectlymarilynmonroe: Norma Jeane (Marilyn Monroe) photographed by H.Maier studio
missnormajeanes: perfectlymarilynmonroe: Norma Jeane (Marilyn Monroe) photographed by H.Maier studios, 1945. “For fifteen years I’ve been running the Blue Book Models School in Hollywood. I’ve watched our girls make the big jump to stardom after working with us, but the graduate I’m proud of is Marilyn Monroe. Not only because she is today one of the most successful and well-known of all my students, but because she started with the least. When Marilyn came to me back in August, 1945, she had no money, no background, one sharkskin dress, a man-tailored, teal-blue suit and a bathing suit. Her name was Norma Jean [sic] Dougherty and she was married to a merchant seaman. She was cute-looking, but she knew nothing about carriage, posture, walking, sitting or posing…I asked Marilyn about her background and she confessed (again shyly), ‘I sing a little. That’s all.’ She had no ambition at the time to become an actress, unless, of course, it was a secret desire. She did have a pleasant personality, what we call an All-American girl kind of personality – cute, wholesome and respectable. There was no sultry sexiness about her except that her clothes were a little too tight across the chest. That sex buildup was to come much later, although I did realize immediately that Marilyn would never do as a fashion model.” —Emmeline Snively from “The Secrets of Marilyn’s Life as a Model” for Modern Screen Magazine in 1954. Norma Jeane before Marilyn came along ❤ -- source link