Might 4, 2025 · 5:00 pm
I like exhibiting this to vacationers since which have NO IDEA that it’s right here in downtown Key West.
The well-known image of Marilyn Monroe laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent was shot on September fifteenth, 1954 filming The Seven Yr Itch. The scene infuriated her husband, Yankee legend Joe DiMaggio, who felt it was exhibitionist and divorced her shortly after.
She was born Norma Jean Mortensen (Baker), she had a tragic childhood together with her mom institutionalized at age 5 sending her to a collection of foster properties the place she was uncared for and abused. She stop college at 16 and received married as Norma Jean Dougherty.
In 1944 she labored as a paint sprayer in a protection plant the place she was noticed by a photographer changing into a well-liked pin-up lady. Newly divorced and dealing as a mannequin she signed with twentieth Century Fox in 1945 however dropped her after one movie, Columbia signed her additionally dropping her after one movie. Unemployed, she posed nude for a calendar for $50 that cemented her rise to fame. Fox re-signed her in 1950 giving her characteristic roles like Gents Desire Blondes in 1953, Bus Cease in 1955, Some Like It Sizzling in 1959, & The Misfits in 1961. She tried yet one more movie, One thing’s Bought to Give, however was fired for frequent absences from the set which many believed to be associated to drug dependancy.
On August fifth 1962, on the younger age of 36 she died from an overdose of sleeping tablets dominated a potential suicide. Her ex-husband Joe DiMaggio continued to ship flowers to her grave daily for the remainder of his life. Since her dying, her recognition and mystique have endured spawning films & songs paying homage to this blonde attractive bombshell together with a 2011 movie My Week With Marilyn and Elton John’s 1973 Candle In The Wind.
You could find this Marilyn Monroe life-like statue in entrance of the Tropic Cinema at 416 Eaton Avenue simply 1-block west of Duval Avenue.
