vulnerablemarilyn:

Marilyn Monroe’s 36th and final birthday was a bittersweet affair. Her director, George Cukor, demanded that they finish a whole working day before they celebrated and got angry at the staff when the cake was brought out earlier. The cast and crew chipped in to be able to buy Marilyn a small birthday cake and the studio, 20th Century Fox, sent over coffee, which, after Marilyn’s death was charged to her estate. Marilyn’s little party ended in about half an hour and Cukor didn’t sign her birthday card like the cast and crew did; Marilyn and her closest friends retired to Dean Martin’s dressing room to continue the small fiesta there. Earlier that year in another 20th Century Fox project, on the set of Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor was given a huge $6000 birthday party. 
This year, June 1 2012, on what could have been Marilyn’s 86th birthday, she is still as much admired as she was at the peak of her career and remembered with more respect. Let us, as true Marilynettes, remember her fondly, each with our own memories of how we first found out about her and how we grew to love her. 

vulnerablemarilyn:

Marilyn Monroe’s 36th and final birthday was a bittersweet affair. Her director, George Cukor, demanded that they finish a whole working day before they celebrated and got angry at the staff when the cake was brought out earlier. The cast and crew chipped in to be able to buy Marilyn a small birthday cake and the studio, 20th Century Fox, sent over coffee, which, after Marilyn’s death was charged to her estate. Marilyn’s little party ended in about half an hour and Cukor didn’t sign her birthday card like the cast and crew did; Marilyn and her closest friends retired to Dean Martin’s dressing room to continue the small fiesta there. Earlier that year in another 20th Century Fox project, on the set of Cleopatra, Elizabeth Taylor was given a huge $6000 birthday party. 

This year, June 1 2012, on what could have been Marilyn’s 86th birthday, she is still as much admired as she was at the peak of her career and remembered with more respect. Let us, as true Marilynettes, remember her fondly, each with our own memories of how we first found out about her and how we grew to love her. 

“This time, we didn’t make any wishes for the future. We said goodbye to our past. None of us have any idea where life’s gonna take us, cause what we have is now. And right now, we have each other.”

(Source: mylittlefaith)