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Marilyn Monroe Rare Photos: The Blonde Bombshell in Pigtails and Polka-Dots

by Katie Hintz-Zambrano (Subscribe to Katie Hintz-Zambrano's posts)
Posted Aug 17th 2010 at 6:45PM  
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Marilyn Monroe summer dress puppy pigtails white button-up The Misfits

Marilyn Monroe is sweet and innocent in a summer dress and pigtails. Photos: Eve Arnold / Magnum Photos

Just when you think you've seen every picture taken of Marilyn Monroe, more rare photographs of the iconic bombshell emerge.

A new batch of sixteen images by American photographer Eve Arnold -- five taken in 1955, the rest in 1960 -- have popped up at Castle Galleries in the U.K., where a limited number of the prints will be for sale, with prices starting at $545.

In the oldest set of intimate images, Monroe is photographed on a trip to small-town Bennet, Ill., where she was the guest of honor at the inauguration of a museum dedicated to her idol, Abraham Lincoln.

The black-and-white images include one of her from behind, fixing her famed locks at the Chicago airport's public restroom, and two others of her lounging around her hotel room in a pretty white eyelet dress with a boatneck collar.

The pair of color pictures from 1955 include a pensive Monroe on a plane to Illinois and a vampy image taken in Long Island, NY, where the then 29-year-old Monroe crawls on her belly through high grass while wearing a sexy strapless leopard-print dress.

The pictures Arnold took five years later (and two years before Monroe infamously sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President") mostly focused on candids of Monroe working on the Nevada set of "The Misfits," where she dons high-waisted denim, jean jackets, button-down tops, wide-brimmed hats, and plaid pants along with a more feminine polka-dot dress.

Marilyn Monroe jean jacket The Misfits

Monroe while shooting "The Misfits." Photos: Eve Arnold / Magnum Photos

Within those pictures we also get an in-color look at Monroe's storied signature makeup -- heavy lashes with plenty of mascara, black eyeliner, darkly penciled brows, and a coral-hued lipstick that we're hoping makes a comeback, stat.

The most provocative of the bunch is arguably a 1960 image of Monroe rolling around in bed and covering up her naked chest with a sheet.

Check out other amazing photos of Monroe.

In the meantime, see why Lindsay Lohan told StyleList she feels a kinship with Monroe's ultimately tragic tale.
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lovingyorkies, 8-17-2010, 10:58PM

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lovingyorkies

The photos are fabulous! I love Marilyn, always have and always will. She is a TRUE icon of beauty and glamor. We need to go back to the days when people appreciated a gorgeous & voluptuous woman.

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Jr, 8-18-2010, 11:34AM

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The pic to the top (pig tails) right is Photo Shopped. She has hair on what is supposed to be her right arm.

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Cappy, 8-18-2010, 11:41AM

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Cappy

Jr, it isn't hair. It's dirt. Maybe she was gardening?

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Tom, 8-18-2010, 11:45AM

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Tom

There will only ever be one Marilyn Monroe. She was sexy, beautiful, and what a real woman should look like, curves and all. Theses bean poles today look like 12 year old boys with Boobs. I'll take a full figure lady any day of the week.

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quantumdriven, 8-18-2010, 12:01PM

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quantumdriven

OMG, did you see her knockout hinnie in that one!?!

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beetlejuice, 8-18-2010, 1:55PM

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beetlejuice

This girl was only a "star" because she was nothing but a bimbo slut. Wasn't even really pretty, let alone "all that & a bag of chip's".

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fred, 8-18-2010, 2:14PM

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Yeah it looks like a mans hand and arm. She really looks bad in that photo the art team really needs to get their act together and probobly just put up the photos instead of trying to make them look, and I use this word loosely,..........better?

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dennisphnx4, 8-18-2010, 2:53PM

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That is a picture taken from the film "the Misfits" and at times she was rolling or was dragged through the dirt, such as when trying to break a horse. I think that was her last movie.

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Carolyn, 8-18-2010, 3:02PM

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Jr: It is called a ''shadow''.

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Sally, 8-18-2010, 4:04PM

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Sally

Are you looking for a job? Please think outside the box when it comes to finding employment. What are you doing right now? You are on the internet. Where do you shop? Where do you book trips? I make $30K working 4 hrs a day as an employee for a large corporation on the internet. The internet has opened up so many REAL jobs that can be worked from home. BestTopJobs has a FREE list of hundreds of real work at home jobs offered by well known companies. These jobs do NOT cost you money. These are employment positions. This is not a scam only help for those looking for work. You will have to add the ending to the link because I can't post full links. Hope this helps!

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bluzcandy2, 8-18-2010, 5:15PM

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that's sand! it's not a mans arm. if you ever saw the movie you'd know she worked really hard with those horses and got dirty. The background is showing sand flats.

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Betsy, 8-18-2010, 5:21PM

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Betsy

If you want to see wonderful pics..including the ones shown here..buy the book
"Marilyn Monroe" by Eve Arnold. It's a big wonderful book and the photo in the pig tails is on Pg 70-The Misfits-1960..the polka dot dress w dog on pg 125 That fab shot with the plaid pants pg 135 Those are Jax Pants Marilyn loved to walk around the dressing room with them unzipped. Her publicist would appear and pull the zipper tab UP This is a big book with big photos and one I will never give away Check ebay alibris or half.com

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lilangel4evr711, 8-18-2010, 6:11PM

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i agree with him... look at her neck line... where her neck is, its lighter, thn u can see a clear line where it goes sort of grey...

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kerry, 8-18-2010, 11:06AM

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the ccolored photo is fake......why does she have a mans arm and hand..lies all lies

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Carol Stout, 8-18-2010, 11:50AM

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Carol Stout

I don't know about everything being lies but that definitely is a man's arm in the photo of her with pigtails. Whoever photo shopped that did a real bad job. To bad they had to ruin a picture of a beautiful & glamorous woman by doing something like that.

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Joseph, 8-18-2010, 8:53PM

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Photoshop?!? That makes no sense... the fact that the photo has flaws in it can be taken as testament to it's authenticity. Photoshop is for making pictures look better, not worse. If they were Photoshopping don't you think they would've REMOVED shadows/dirt/discoloration from the arm?? What would be the point of taking a photo of her and making it look like she has a man's arm or pasting her head on someone else's body?
I think it is a great picture, flaws and all.

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tammie, 8-18-2010, 12:02PM

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first thing i noticed too! wtf

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Jane, 8-18-2010, 12:11PM

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Oh, my God, yes. What's up with that? How creepy!

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CW_313, 8-18-2010, 2:04PM

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You can even see the difference in coloring in the chest area, from the shoulder blades and up, LOOK! Is that a hairy chest we are seeing too?

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Denise, 8-18-2010, 4:47PM

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I agree that its a mans arm...if she was rolling in dirt or what ever for a pic how come her shirt is still snow white???

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