It's all about the dress: how the legendary waving dress Marilyn Monroe divorced her with her husband
In the early days of August, the world traditionally recalls one of the most beautiful women in history - Marilyn Monroe. She died on August 5, 1962. She was only 36 years old. Norma Jean Baker's body was discovered in her own home. An official cause of death was an overdose of barbiturates.
When you hear the name Monroe, for some reason a smiling blonde involuntarily arises in my memory, which stands on the grill of the ventilation shaft. She carefully holds the hem of the dress, and the wind from below tries to raise it above her head. It was this legendary dress that played an important role in the life of the actress.
Marilyn played brilliant and not very roles in three dozen films, but for some reason everyone remembered this image, which the actress created in the film "Itching of the Seventh Year." It was he who later was called the iconic image of the past century.
Monroe's dress was called one of the most famous in history. And it was in this image in the same white dress that the beauty of Marilyn was immortalized by sculptors, creating a monument, which now stands in Palm Springs.
Few people know that a white dress with a treacherously soaring hem played a huge role in the actress's life. According to the picture, in this scene, Monroe played a blonde charm, a model whom a book publisher met when his wife and children went on vacation outside the city.
The dress, according to the director, was supposed to come up after the heroine heard the knock of a subway train under the pavement grille during an evening walk with a new boyfriend. And at first they really tried to shoot honestly on the street, but Monroe in a fluttering dress attracted so many onlookers who emotionally whistled and clapped at the actress’s white panties that they decided to postpone the shooting at night.
However, well after midnight, the scene gathered a bunch of spectators, and therefore re-shot the episode in the 20th Century Fox studio pavilion.
The author of the white dress was a designer William Travilla. It is a mistake to think that the dress was white; it was actually ivory. For some time it was believed that the designer decided to save time and money and did not draw a dress for the actress, but simply bought a ready-made one, but Travilla categorically denied these conjectures.
The scene with a flying dress enthralled everyone - from the crew to the audience, but the actress’s husband is a basketball player Joe DiMaggio was incredibly confused, he accused his wife of shamelessly flaunting her body. The scandal that the basketball player made to the beautiful wife became decisive, and after him the couple broke up.
After the tragic death of the beautiful Marilyn, the 20th Century Fox film studio held an auction in 1971, at which many of the actress's things went under the hammer. Among the lots was an ivory dress. It was bought by Debbie Reynolds, later the outfit was in the Hollywood Museum of Cinema.
The legendary and tragic dress hit the next auction in 2011. Experts tentatively estimated it at 1-2 million dollars. In reality, an unknown buyer purchased Monroe's outfit for 4.6 million dollars and paid for it in excess of this amount another million commissions.
