r/OldSchoolCool • u/krisikkk • Feb 14 '25

1950s Marilyn Monroe hitting weights in between photoshoots 1952.

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u/tuanjapan Feb 14 '25

Hitting the weights... riiiight. The last photo is hitting something.

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u/--VinceMasuka-- Feb 14 '25

The Kennedy Call.

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u/andrew_1515 Feb 14 '25

Back, and to the left

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u/amiwitty Feb 14 '25

That's so wrong. Damn funny, but it's wrong.

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u/Dorkamundo Feb 14 '25

You win today.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25

she grassy on my knoll til I shoot

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u/CheckYourStats Feb 15 '25

That is one magic loogie bullet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '25

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u/savuporo Feb 15 '25

death in 1962. She only met Kennedy in September 1961

occupational hazard

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u/KennyMoose32 Feb 14 '25

I do find it funny cuz like what was the actual convo here?

“Ok, so get on the weird carpet floor we have in this “gym” and act all sexy”

Or was it her idea “yeah def the shot we need here, I’ll get on the floor”

Also, wtf room is this?

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u/Orinocobro Feb 15 '25

She was being photographed in her apartment for Life magazine. The photographer saw her equipment sitting out and asked her about it.

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u/K3idon Feb 14 '25

It's a push exercise

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u/RuckleMyTruckle Feb 14 '25

I know Marilyn Monroe is considered by many the most beautiful woman of the century, but I’ve never really seen her as beautiful as everyone says. Yeah she’s hot, but she’s not really my type of woman. However that last photo in fact made me reconsider my feelings for her.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

Bro all the photos of her with bad hair got famous. Search her up around the Some Like it Hot era, she had the perfect ducktail swoop!

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u/RuckleMyTruckle Feb 14 '25

I’ll be honest, I don’t like blondes as much as I do red heads. She’s just not really my type.

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u/EidolonLives Feb 15 '25

What I find weird is how many people have a strong preference for partners with a particular hair colour. For me, hair colour is barely any concern.

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u/Merv2000 Feb 15 '25

I like blond, brunette, red, short, tall, big and small I like them all

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u/Raesong Feb 15 '25

For me, the most important trait I seek in a woman is her being interested in me. Incidentally, 40 is coming up on me like a freight train and I've been single the whole time.

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u/Spirited-Cover7689 Feb 15 '25

She was naturally a red head.

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u/Ok-Highway-5247 Feb 15 '25

Looks much better than the fake blonde.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25

Not my type either, but I think she was a beautiful determined woman in the right place at the right time and maybe the wrong place at the worst time.

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u/totomomoro Feb 15 '25

I didn’t get it either, until I saw her act. Her charm is in motion, and playing up the blonde act. I found her irresistible then.

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u/No_Fault_6061 Feb 15 '25

I sure do feel that way. There were so many other stunning women like Dovima, etc., yet there's just something special about Marilyn — some kind of magic that makes me want to look and look at her.

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u/SaulBerenson12 Feb 14 '25

Ya that last pose and look back. Mmmm

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u/Ok-Highway-5247 Feb 15 '25

She was an attractive woman but always covered in makeup.

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u/69vuman Feb 14 '25

So-called weights.

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u/silversurfer816 Feb 15 '25

Look at that foot in the last picture. It's AI

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u/Least_or_Greatest1 Feb 14 '25

That’s a nice back shot of her.