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Can anyone ID this image of a face? Marilyn Monroe?
Category: Arts and Entertainment Asked by: gren-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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26 Jun 2004 13:36 PDT
Expires: 26 Jul 2004 13:36 PDT Question ID: 366704 |
Can anyone identify this image of a barely decipherable face, impressed on the inside back wall of an old bus shelter? Could it be Marilyn Monroe? An old poster? Take a quick peek at <http://peninsulators.org/Marilyn/> |
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Re: Can anyone ID this image of a face? Marilyn Monroe?
From: pinkfreud-ga on 26 Jun 2004 16:58 PDT |
It looks to me like Marilyn Monroe as she appeared in "Bus Stop." Here is a poster with a similar wide-eyed, open-mouthed pose: http://rbenda.bei.t-online.de/pj/pj_090.jpg |
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Re: Can anyone ID this image of a face? Marilyn Monroe?
From: denco-ga on 26 Jun 2004 18:58 PDT |
It is most certainly Marilyn. Possible a "flop" (a right to left reversal of an image) of one of Andy Warhol's silkscreen images of her. See: http://www.moma.org/collection/depts/paint_sculpt/images/large/316_62_warhol_marilyn.jpg Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher |
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Re: Can anyone ID this image of a face? Marilyn Monroe?
From: pafalafa-ga on 26 Jun 2004 19:02 PDT |
C'mon, Pink. Why would anyone paint a picture of Marilyn Monroe from Bus Stop in a bus stop on Marilyn Monroe Blvd? |
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Re: Can anyone ID this image of a face? Marilyn Monroe?
From: gren-ga on 26 Jun 2004 20:40 PDT |
The bus stop was salvaged, bought from the county by my mom. She was a M.M. fan and added the Blvd sign. The image was noticed later, so if it *is* M.M., it's a coincidence. Neither of those two Marilyn's seems like an exact match, but that beauty spot sure looks to be in the right place. |
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Re: Can anyone ID this image of a face? Marilyn Monroe?
From: melvynp-ga on 29 Jun 2004 04:37 PDT |
Yes, it's definitely MM, but from a photo taken more towards the end of her life. This image was once used on the cover of a book I used to have. Can't remember the title at the moment to be able to search for it. |
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Re: Can anyone ID this image of a face? Marilyn Monroe?
From: jenesaispas-ga on 29 Jun 2004 18:08 PDT |
Looks like a slightly distorted version of this cover: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3823854674/qid=1088557589/sr=5-1/ref=cm_lm_asin/104-1175791-4538337?v=glance&s=books |
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From: jenesaispas-ga on 29 Jun 2004 18:09 PDT |
...reversed. |
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Re: Can anyone ID this image of a face? Marilyn Monroe?
From: gren-ga on 30 Jun 2004 11:18 PDT |
I've been looking through image searches and book covers, but all the M.M. images I see, she's usually got the half-open bedroom eyes, sleepy/sultry looking. In the image from the bus shelter, the eyes are surprised/wide-open, quite a difference. If the image *was* from a book cover, it must have also been used on a poster or advertising of some sort? Presumably the image was transferred from a poster to the back wall (this is Washington; it's pretty damp up there). |
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