New Additions to Marilyn Monroes Section

Oh, I have ben busy rounding up some more lovely photos. I hope you enjoy them Carpe dear, even the ones on the side will enlarge if you click on them so have fun, click and save, add them to your page if you like, print em out go hog wild.

Enjoy!

Love Granny Diva

Starlets Of The Golden Era

Ahh the golden age of cinema I am a lover of those old movies from the 30s n 40s. and an avid fan of the films from the 50s n 60s. Talkies they called them when first they reared their heads in the 20s.

I used to watch them in awe of the beauty of the starlets and the handsomeness of the leading men. Musicals were my favorite the clothes were a close second.

Marred only by the stereotyping of people of color [since that was in the days of maids and minstrels the step and fetch it's and the simpletons, lazy, shiftless, image.

These things did not become relevent to me until I was older. So for a time I simply got lost in the worlds of Fred Astaire n Ginger Rogers Gene kelly and Cyd Charisse to name but a couple. in the 50s n 60s musicals slowly began to fade away after the beach movies lsot their lustre, until notable films like Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell  and then, John Travolta and disco fever came along and reinvented the musical all over again......but I digress.

This page is about those early years  and the Starlets who mesmerized me. I may toss in a few of those leading men, a dance couple or two and of course for Carpe, a special section devoted to Marilyn Monroe... who knows let's see how the gallery grows shall we.

Diva 

Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe,^[1][2] (1 June 1926 - 5 August 1962), born Norma Jeane Mortenson but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer, and model.

After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early roles were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) were well received. She was praised for her comedic ability in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, and The Seven Year Itch,and became one of Hollywood's most popular and glamorous performers.

The typecasting of Monroe's "dumb blonde" persona limited her career prospects, so she broadened her range. She studied at the Actors Studio and formed Marilyn Monroe Productions. Her dramatic performance in William Inge's Bus Stop was hailed by critics, and she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like it Hot.

The final years of Monroe's life were marked by illness, personal problems, and a reputation for being unreliable and difficult to work with. The circumstances of her death, from an overdose ofbarbiturates, have been the subject of conjecture. Though officially classified as a "probable suicide," the possibility of an accidental overdose has not been ruled out, while conspiracy theorists argue that she was murdered.