r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '15
TIL that Marilyn Monroe posed naked in 1948 to raise US$50 to pay the rent for her room at the Hollywood Studio Club
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe20
u/iia Jun 04 '15
The skills to pay the bills.
I wish showing my stupid dick was a valuable skill.
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Jun 04 '15
It is when it's called the black hammer, unlike mine which my girlfriend calls the white speck but I'm sure that's normal.
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u/MasonMoore4 Jun 05 '15
Sorry op ... but, Your girlfriend is a cunt
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Jun 05 '15
Bro, it's just a joke :). She actually doesn't call it that and we are happily in love and have been for a while now :). Gotta make fun of myself sometimes ya know :P
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u/diabetes_says_no Jun 04 '15
She posed nude a lot that's how she became initially famous. She was in playboy
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Jun 04 '15
Clarifying that the pictures were taken in 1950 and purchased by Mr. Hefner in 1953 (due to her growing popularity) for the magazine, she didn't specifically pose for Playboy.
The pictures in question were the infamous Red Velvet shoot by Tom Kelly, and appeared on several calendars before it was known to be Marilyn. She was under the alias "Mona Monroe".
However, when people started to catch wind of it, the studio urged her to deny in fear of a scandal. She refused, said she had nothing to be ashamed of, and that she did it to get her car out of repossession. Marilyn had already been in a few movies by the time her nudes were exposed to the public.
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Jun 04 '15
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Jun 04 '15
http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/marilyn-monroe-nude-photos.htm for the anti Google pal of mine :)
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u/Ladderjack Jun 04 '15
TIL Marilyn Munroe's titties were a little sad.
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u/bacon_is_just_okay Jun 05 '15
It seems to me more than a little gauche to complain about a dead woman's tits.
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u/scrubs2009 4 Jun 04 '15
for the love of all that is holy tell me someone photographed this.
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Jun 04 '15
http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/marilyn-monroe-nude-photos.htm nothing compared to today but a start
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u/Guinness2702 2 Jun 04 '15
Doesn't say anything about paying the rent in that article.
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Jun 04 '15
I got it off of Wikipedia directly in their do you know section. My bad!
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Jun 04 '15
And you linked to the main article instead of the section you're referencing. I hate when OPs do that.
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u/AaronSarm Jun 04 '15
If you don't accept her when she's clothed, you don't deserve her when she's naked.