{"id":1733,"date":"2009-06-02T16:41:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T16:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2009-06-02T16:41:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T16:41:33","slug":"unseen_marilyn_photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/02\/unseen_marilyn_photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Unseen Marilyn Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- LIFE IMAGE 88010906 --><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/embed\/index\/js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">LIFEembedDrawImage(88010906);<\/script><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not especially a fan of Marilyn Monroe &#8212; with the exception of the sublime <i>Some Like It Hot<\/i>, all of her movies that I&#8217;ve seen blur together in my memory, and I&#8217;m not even certain which ones I <i>have<\/i> seen &#8212; but she was undeniably pretty, and I like photos of pretty girls. I&#8217;m also <i>fascinated<\/i> by those occasional stories of long-lost artifacts being rediscovered in somebody&#8217;s attic, so naturally my ears pricked up when I heard on <i>The Today Show<\/i> this morning that a cache of unpublished photos of Marilyn had turned up in the archives of <i>Life<\/i> magazine. You can see a nice selection of them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/first\/in-gallery\/27412\">here<\/a>. These shots were taken in August of 1950, when Marilyn was 24 years old and still a few years from attaining full-fledged stardom. To my eye, she looks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/88010946\/in-gallery\/27412\/marilyn-neverpublished-photos\">happier<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/image\/88010878\/in-gallery\/27412\/marilyn-neverpublished-photos\">sexier<\/a> in these than in most of the better-known images of her that were taken later on. But then I&#8217;ve long suspected she was much happier as Norma Jean than she ever was as Marilyn.<br \/>\nFYI, yesterday was her birthday. She would&#8217;ve been 83 years old, something that&#8217;s nearly impossible to imagine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not especially a fan of Marilyn Monroe &#8212; with the exception of the sublime Some Like It Hot, all of her movies that I&#8217;ve seen blur together in my memory, and I&#8217;m not even certain which ones I have seen &#8212; but she was undeniably pretty, and I like photos of pretty girls. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}