{"id":2348,"date":"2010-08-05T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midastouch.goldgenie.com\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2010-08-05T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T08:00:55","slug":"the-ultimate-screen-goddess-marilyn-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/the-ultimate-screen-goddess-marilyn-monroe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Screen Goddess: Marilyn Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marilyn-monroe.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2349\" title=\"marilyn monroe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marilyn-monroe.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">I love red carpet glamour and as the 5<sup>th<\/sup> of August is the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe\u2019s death, this fabulous gold dress definitely deserves a mention. &#8216;The Gold Dress&#8217; designed by<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marilynmonroe.ca\/camera\/galleries\/costumes\/travilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> William Travilla<\/a> was worn in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by my favourite icon Marilyn Monroe. \u00a0The hand pleated halter neck dress was one of Marilyn\u2019s favourite designs and is one of mine too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marilyn_monroe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2350\" title=\"marilyn_monroe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/marilyn_monroe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">Famous for her exquisite facial features and her curvaceous figure \u2013 the American, singer, actress and model was the ultimate triple threat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2351\" title=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">I loved what she represented; beauty, talent, glamour, femininity, determination, sexuality, scandal and could anyone have delivered the \u201cDiamonds Are A Girls\u2019 Best Friend\u201d message better than Ms Monroe?\u00a0 I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/114.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2352\" title=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">Her super star status still rakes in money! The pink gown she wore in Gentlemen Prefer blondes sold at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/celebritynews\/7825228\/Marilyn-Monroe-gown-fetches-213000-at-auction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auction<\/a> for \u00a3213,000 in June this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/8254AAAAD6A5908EA1E76C92D6018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2354\" title=\"8254AAAAD6A5908EA1E76C92D6018\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/8254AAAAD6A5908EA1E76C92D6018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 1.4em;\">What was not to love about Marilyn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love red carpet glamour and as the 5th of August is the anniversary of Marilyn Monroe\u2019s death, this fabulous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,17,18,44],"tags":[133,237,1119,1608],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-thingz-nice","category-cool-stuff","category-fashion","category-film","category-style","tag-all-thingz-nice","tag-bloggess","tag-marilyn-monroe","tag-ultimate-screen-goddess"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}