Fifty years ago today, Hollywood's greatest sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe, died from "acute barbiturate poisoning" at the age of 36. It's impossible to talk about her once-in-a-lifetime beauty without sounding like a creep, but she really was everything people said about her: that hair, that smile, that beauty mark, those lips, those CURVES. Yowza. She was also a very gifted singer AND actress, in both dramas and comedies. It's fun to imagine what her career would be like if she had risen to fame in the 2010s. Would she have been cast in so many "ditzy blonde" roles? What's the modern-day equivalent of the famous subway grate scene from The Seven-Year Itch? Which New York Met would she be dating? One thing's for sure, though: she'd be as popular as Michelle Jenneke, if Michelle Jenneke were a blonde bomb-shell. With that in mind, here are 10 1950s sex symbols, including dearest Marilyn, who would have blown up the Internet had they been discovered today.
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And one for the ladies:
It's not fair.
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oof. thanks for that last gif
i feel like tom hardy (inception hardy, not bane hardy) is reminiscent of a young brando. he was so lovely but he was a jerk in that movie that gif is from.
1) Needs more Sophia Loren
2) Google “Betty Brosmer”. You’re welcome.
Hello there.
Sorry, but I was already there.
How would you like to escort 500 Big Macs to Marlon Brando’s island?
…no, that’s a terrier. They’re dogs.
Ha! I knew it was impossible to get three consecutive images of Liz Tailor where she doesn’t look like a bitch..
No Audry Hepburn?
Little late in the decade, but Claudia Cardinale.
This is like reading Frank Sinatra’s “Little Black Book”
should do one for the 60s 70s 80s and 90s
Oh God Anita Ekberg… If only La Dolce Vita was 174 minutes of you…
True story. My mother is named after Dorthy Dandridges daughter Harolyn. I guess the geek was in my grandmother too.
I’m pretty sure the Blonde hair was fake. And her acting was not good. But like Megan Fox she got by on her looks.
Yeah, sadly most of them would probably be as shallow as a lot of the sex bombs are today.
Except for Grace Kelly, don’t you dare talk bad about Grace Kelly, she’s a real life princess after all.
Hedy Lamarr. Gorgeous and helped invent a new form of wireless communication.
That’s HEDLEY.
This is a glorious post. The Liz Taylor pics reinforce how laughable it was to cast cokehound Lohan into that bio-pic.
I second the vote for Betty Brosmer to be right up there with Marilyn. She had a great body
Better than Marilyn’s,but I love you post anyway.