MARILYN MONROE WEARS FASHION SHOW BATHING SUIT (1953) Photo

[Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox, 1953]. Vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Photo curls. Minor crease at top right corner. Near fine.

Full-length costume portrait of Marilyn wearing the bathing suit that she models in the fashion show sequence from How to Marry a Millionaire. As a myopic character, Monroe played both physical and psychological comedy as she tripped her way around the runway stage attempting to see the wealthy and handsome patron asking her and pals Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall to model the latest fashions.

Photo is coded F999/S/431.