Showing posts with label 40's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 40's. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 June 2026

Young Norma Jeane

Paper doll base with casual outifs Norma Jeane
Norma Jeane's early years are a treasure trove of small moments captured by family, friends, and neighbors—spontaneous photographs that reveal a radiant young woman, still far from the Marilyn Monroe persona. It's this phase that I'm transforming into a series of outfits for my paper doll. In these early records, we see Norma Jeane posing shyly in front of a car, with her family, lying on the grass, or strolling with friends. There's a sweet naturalness to these images: light dresses, flared skirts, sweaters, 1940s-style hairstyles. 

Among these casual looks, there's a moment that marks a turning point in Norma Jeane's life: her wedding to Jim Dougherty on June 19, 1942. The photo from that day, taken by Axel Togg, shows a 16-year-old girl with a shy glow, enveloped in a dress lovingly made by Ana Lower. The dress is a delicate and characteristic piece of the era: "a wide, rounded collar creates an elegant neckline, designed to accommodate a large white pearl necklace. Long sleeves in sheer veil, which give lightness and softness to the ensemble. The bodice and skirt are lined with lace, providing texture and romanticism. A sheer veil is worn over the head." - The dress description is based on information gathered from the Divine Marilyn Monroe  (CanalBlog). I thank the author for her research work.

 

Paper dolls inspired by Norma Jeane Marilyn Monroe pin‑up aesthetics and a tribute to the 100th birthday 

A simple tribute that seeks to honor the memory she left us. After all, it all started with a simple, universal, profoundly human desire:

I wanna be loved by you

 

Bibliography compiled based on print and digital sources:

Franse, A., & Morgan, M. (2015). Before Marilyn: The Blue Book Modeling Years.
Vogel, M. (2014). Marilyn Monroe: Her Films, Her Life. McFarland & Company.
Casting Norma Jeane: A Starlet is Transformed Into Marilyn Monroe. (ano não indicado).
Lo, D. (2012). Marilyn Monroe: A Life in Pictures.
Julien’s Auctions. (s.d.). Déjà Vu (catálogo de leilão)

 Divine Marilyn Monroe. (s.d.). CanalBlog. https://divinemarilyn.canalblog.com  

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Os primeiros anos de Norma Jeane são um tesouro de pequenos momentos captados por familiares, amigos e vizinhos — fotografias espontâneas que revelam uma jovem cheia de luz, ainda longe da persona Marilyn Monroe. É essa fase que estou a transformar numa série de outfits para a minha paper doll. Nestes primeiros registos, vemos Norma Jeane a posar timidamente com vestidos leves, saias rodadas, sweaters, penteados ao estilo 40's. 

O vestido de noiva de 1942

Entre estes looks casuais, há um momento que marca uma viragem na vida de Norma Jeane: o seu casamento com Jim Dougherty, a 19 de junho de 1942. A fotografia desse dia, tirada por Axel Togg, mostra uma jovem de 16 anos com um brilho tímido, envolta num vestido feito com enorme carinho pela “tia” Ana Lower. O vestido é uma peça delicada e muito característica da época: gola larga e arredondada, criando um decote elegante, pensado para acomodar um grande colar de pérolas brancas; mangas compridas em véu transparente, que dão leveza e suavidade ao conjunto; corpo e saia forrados a renda, conferindo textura e romantismo e véu transparente sobre a cabeça. 
Uma singela homenagem que procura honrar a memória que ela nos deixou. Afinal, tudo começou com um desejo simples, universal, profundamente humano: I wanna be loved by you!

Monday, 1 June 2026

Under the horoscope of Marilyn Monroe

As you can see from the blog's logo change, this year we'll be under the horoscope of Marilyn Monroe. 😍 

 It is with enormous enthusiasm that I present to you a very special series, designed by me, to celebrate the centenary of the woman behind the myth:

  Norma Jeane – The Pin-Up Years Paper Doll

Base doll with casual outfit
Norma Jeane paper doll with casual outfit

norma jeane marilyn monroe Earl moran  As I told you before the first time I saw Marilyn Monroe was in a magazine. I must have been about seven or eight years old. The article said something like, “Hollywood killed Norma Jeane to make way for Marilyn Monroe.” My early literacy didn't allow me to understand the metaphor. What caught my attention was a photo of Norma Jeane posing for Earl Moran. I ran to my brother and said, “Look what they did, they killed this girl to put this one in her place…” Then he explained that they were the same person. From that moment on, her images were etched in my memory.  

Marilyn: the most photographed, reinterpreted, and reinvented woman. 

Marilyn Monroe is perhaps one of the most written about, studied, and photographed figures in film history. So, instead of revisiting her most iconic looks—the white dress, the pink dress, the gold dress—I decided to take a different path. I want to return to the beginning. To Norma Jeane's first steps as a pin-up, model, and starlet, long before Hollywood transformed her into a universal symbol. 

When she met Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, she described the young Norma Jeane like this: “She had a beautiful body, but her clothes didn't flatter it. Her hair didn't either—it was shapeless, a tightly curled tangle that didn't enhance her features. She didn't wear makeup, but she had beautiful skin, eyes, and teeth. The following year, I spent a lot of time thinking about and transforming Norma Jeane Dougherty, or Marilyn Monroe, as she is known today.”
For an entire year, Snively worked with her: he taught her how to pose, how to dress, how to style her hair, how to look at the camera. She prepared her for her first screen test—the true starting point of the metamorphosis that, little by little, would give rise to the dazzling star the world knows today. 

My tribute 

Paper doll base with casual outifs Norma Jeane

This series is a work of fan art that will illustrate her evolution from her days as a young factory worker in an aircraft components factory, still called Norma Jeane Dougherty, to the moment she begins to emerge as a model and then a young actress. A simple tribute that seeks to honor the memory she left us. After all, it all started with a simple, universal, profoundly human desire:

I wanna be loved by you, just you 

And nobody else but you 💋

 

Bibliography compiled based on print and digital sources:

Franse, A., & Morgan, M. (2015). Before Marilyn: The Blue Book Modeling Years.
Vogel, M. (2014). Marilyn Monroe: Her Films, Her Life. McFarland & Company.
Casting Norma Jeane: A Starlet is Transformed Into Marilyn Monroe. (ano não indicado).
Lo, D. (2012). Marilyn Monroe: A Life in Pictures.
Julien’s Auctions. (s.d.). Déjà Vu (catálogo de leilão)

 Divine Marilyn Monroe. (s.d.). CanalBlog. https://divinemarilyn.canalblog.com  

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Como podem ver pela mudança do logo do blogue este ano estaremos sob o signo de Marilyn Monroe. É com enorme entusiasmo que vos apresento uma série muito especial, desenhada por mim, para celebrar o centenário da mulher por detrás do mito: “Norma Jeane – The Pin‑Up Years Paper Doll”.

A primeira vez que vi Marilyn Monroe foi numa revista. Eu teria uns sete ou oito anos. O artigo dizia algo como “Hollywood matou Norma Jeane para dar lugar a Marilyn Monroe”. A minha literacia infantil não me permitiu compreender a metáfora. O que me prendeu a atenção foi uma fotografia de Norma Jeane a posar para Earl Moran. Corri para o meu irmão e disse-lhe: “Olha o que fizeram, mataram esta moça para pôr esta no seu lugar…” Então ele explicou-me que eram a mesma pessoa. A partir desse momento, as imagens dela ficaram gravadas na minha memória.

 Marilyn: a mulher mais fotografada, reinterpretada e reinventada.  

Marilyn Monroe é, talvez, uma das figuras sobre quem mais se escreveu, das mais estudadas e fotografadas da história do cinema. Por isso, em vez de revisitar os seus looks mais icónicos — o vestido branco, o rosa, o dourado — decidi seguir outro caminho. Quero regressar ao início. Aos primeiros passos de Norma Jeane como pin‑up, modelo e starlet, muito antes de Hollywood a transformar num símbolo universal.

Quando conheceu Emmeline Snively, diretora da Blue Book Modeling Agency, esta descreveu assim a jovem Norma Jeane:

“Tinha um corpo bonito, mas as roupas não lhe favoreciam. O cabelo também não — era disforme, um emaranhado muito encaracolado, que não lhe realçava os traços. Não usava maquilhagem, mas tinha uma pele, olhos e dentes bonitos. No ano seguinte, passei muito tempo a pensar e a transformar a Norma Jeane Dougherty, ou Marilyn Monroe, como lhe chamam hoje.”

Durante um ano inteiro, Snively trabalhou com ela: ensinou-a a posar, a vestir-se, a arranjar o cabelo, a olhar para a câmara. Preparou-a para o primeiro teste de ecrã — o verdadeiro ponto de partida da metamorfose que, pouco a pouco, daria origem à estrela deslumbrante que o mundo conhece.

O meu tributo 

Esta série é um trabalho de fanart que ilustrará a sua evolução desde os dias de jovem operária numa fábrica de componentes para aviões, ainda chamada Norma Jeane Dougherty, até ao momento em que começa a despontar como modelo e depois jovem atriz.

Uma singela homenagem que procura honrar a memória que ela nos deixou. Afinal, tudo começou com um desejo simples, universal, profundamente humano: I wanna be loved by you!  

Bibliografia elaborada com base em fontes impressas e digitais:

Franse, A., & Morgan, M. (2015). Before Marilyn: The Blue Book Modeling Years.
Vogel, M. (2014). Marilyn Monroe: Her Films, Her Life. McFarland & Company.
Casting Norma Jeane: A Starlet is Transformed Into Marilyn Monroe. (ano não indicado).
Lo, D. (2012). Marilyn Monroe: A Life in Pictures.
Julien’s Auctions. (s.d.). Déjà Vu (catálogo de leilão)

 Divine Marilyn Monroe. (s.d.). CanalBlog. https://divinemarilyn.canalblog.com 

Tuesday, 26 May 2026

A sneak peek at what's to come in the next few months

Today I'm lifting the veil slightly on what's going to happen here on the blog in the coming months. I'm preparing a paper doll series dedicated to the centenary of Marilyn Monroe.  


Instead of focusing on the iconic dresses already so often depicted and seen in paper dolls, I decided to go back to the beginning and draw inspiration from Norma Jeane's looks—before fame, before platinum hair, before Hollywood. I'm looking for the base paper doll for the series.  

I started with a suggestion of a tutorial I found years ago on the web.

 

tutorial marilyn monroe paper doll

So, I looked for references that I liked and those that gave me tips for creating an interesting pose.

  

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I will try to combine a pose of young, sweet Norma Jeane, full of that simplicity that marked her early days as a model, with a pose of Marilyn Monroe that will allow me to continue the project, contemplating her years as a starlet and perhaps as an already established star. In the coming months, I will share outfits inspired by her pin-up years, her photo shoots as a professional model, her early films (which are numerous), and the looks that defined her rise as the movie star she is remembered as today. I hope you enjoy this adventure as much as I'm enjoying preparing it. I'm sharing with you a work-in-progress paper doll base. 

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 Tell me: which paper doll base do you prefer(from left to right)? 😜

I look forward to seeing you on June 1st!  

Until then. 

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Hoje levanto a ponta do véu para o que se vai passar aqui no blogue nos próximos meses.

Estou a preparar uma série dedicada ao centenário de Marilyn Monroe. Em vez de incidir nos vestidos icónicos já tão desenhados e vistos em paper dolls, decidi voltar ao início e inspirar-me nos looks de Norma Jeane — antes da fama, antes do cabelo platinado, antes de Hollywood.

Estou à procura da paper doll base para a serie. Tentarei combinar uma pose de Norma Jeane jovem, doce e cheia daquela simplicidade que marcou os seus primeiros tempos como modelo com uma pose de Marilyn Monroe que me permitirá dar continuidade ao projecto contemplando os seus anos de starlet e quem sabe de estrela já consagrada.

Nos próximos meses, vou partilhar outfits inspirados nos seus anos de pin up, nas suas sessões fotográficas como modelo profissional, dos seus primeiros filmes( que são imensos) e nos looks que definiram a sua ascensão como a estrela de cinema que hoje é lembrada .

Espero que gostem desta aventura tanto quanto eu estou a gostar de a preparar. Partilho convosco um working in progress da paper doll base. 

 Digam-me: qual a paper doll base que preferem?

Conto com a vossa visita no dia 1 de junho! Até lá.  

Saturday, 4 March 2023

Frankly, my dear...

Exploring Hollywood's legendary male icons in paper doll form I found this Clark Gable paper doll. 

He was known as "The King of Hollywood's Golden Age". His style has become as iconic as his films. He was known for his sophisticated appearance, often wearing clothes that accentuated his broad shoulders and narrow waist. The brilliantine hair and mustache added charm to his look. Gable showed up in tailored suits, white shirts and smartly tailored trousers. 

Gable's fashion choices were unmistakable and iconic, showing that the "King of Hollywood" had plenty of style and talent. 





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Paper doll from the star archives movie star paper doll


Other Clark Gable paper dolls...

 






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Paper doll by Donald Hendricks

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Paper doll and outfits by Peck Aubry




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Paper dolls by Charlotte Whattley 
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See you my dear! 😁

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Clark Gable era conhecido como o "
O Rei da Era de Ouro de Hollywood". O seu estilo tornou-se tão icónico quanto os seus filmes. Ele era conhecido pela sua aparência sofisticada, muitas vezes usando roupas que acentuavam seus ombros largos e cintura estreita. O cabelo penteado com brilhantina e o bigode adicionaram charme ao seu visual. Gable apresentava-se com ternos sob medida, camisas brancas e calças de corte elegante. As escolhas de moda de Gable eram inconfundíveis e icónicas, mostrando que o "Rei de Hollywood" tinha muito estilo e talento.
Até à próxima!

Tuesday, 28 December 2021

I'm not a blue engel

For today I chose to pay a simple tribute to one of my favourite actresses bringing together here some paper dolls illustrated by various and talented artists. The 27th of December would be her birthday.
 
One of the most iconic figures from Hollywood's golden age in the 30's and 40's, the one who became eternal in cinema as a femme-fatale.
 
Jean Cocteau said: “her name starts as a caress and ends as a lash”. I'm talking about:
 
 Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992)
 
Marlene Dietrich by ALberto Vargas
Combining the right dose of talent and beauty with a strong personality, she created the vamp image in dozens of films that filled the imagination of thousands of people around the world, surrendered to her charms for decades in cinema, fashion and politics.
 
 Her presence was as strong on screen as in real life. Provocative for the time, going against conventional standards, loving men and women equally and challenging powers and institutions, she affirmed the female role and her condition as a woman. 
 
 During World War II she faced the power of Nazi Germany, refusing her invitation to support the Reich. She supported the resistance, created a fund with Billy Wilder to help Jews and dissidents to leave Germany, being recognized for her commitment and service to the cause receiving decorations from several countries.
 
 After abandoning the glamour of cinema, she still filled the stages with her presence, performing songs that she immortalized: Falling in Love Again(Can’t Help It), Lili Marlene or La vie em rose. In these shows, her image was still that of a diva, combining glamorous dresses, wigs and stage lighting in whose technique she was expert.
 
 Afterwards, she withdrew from public life for good, living almost in seclusion, in poor health, in her room in Paris from where she kept in touch with the outside world only by telephone.
 
“It's the friends you can call up at 4 am that matters,” she said. 
 
 She also accepted to participate in a biographical documentary entitled simply “Marlene” (1984), by Maximilian Schell, where only her voice is heard, refusing to always be filmed. 
 
Marlene D. died at the age of 90 and was honoured as a soldier at her funeral. At the ceremony the priest said: "Everyone knew her life as a film and music artist, and everyone knew her difficult moments... She lived like a soldier and would like to be buried like a soldier." 
 
The rest is history. 😊
 

 
   

From Movie star vamps and scamps by Tom Tierney
 

 

 
Marlene  with different outfits in Great costumes from classic movies by Tom Tierney

Marlene Dietrich by Tom Tierney

Other interpretation by Tom Tierney

Marlene Dietrich with outfits by Ralph Hodgdon

Marlene Dietrich with outfits from her tournee by Ralph Hodgdon
 
 
 
Art work by Barb Rausch

 
Marlene Dietrich  with outfit from Seven Sinners by Greg Nystrom
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 







Marlene Dietrich by David Wolfe          

 

 

A creation by Joan Pitman




Marlene paper doll by Guillem Medina

Artwork by Bente Fredso

Artwork by Christine de Scarlett
 


 
 Art work by Alex Gonzales
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Para hoje escolhi fazer uma singela homenagem, reunindo aqui algumas paper dolls ilustradas por vários artistas, a uma das minhas atrizes preferidas. Aquela que se eternizou no cinema como femme -fatale, uma das mais icónicas figuras da época de ouro de Hollywood nos anos 30 e 40. Jean Cocteau disse “o seu nome começa como uma carícia e termina como uma chicotada”, estou a falar de Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992). Combinando a dose certa de talento e beleza com uma personalidade forte, criou a imagem da vamp em dezenas de filmes que preenchiam o imaginário de milhares de pessoas ao redor do mundo, rendidos aos seus encantos durante décadas no cinema , na moda e na política. A sua presença era tão forte na tela como na vida real. Provocadora para a época, contrariando os padrões convencionais, amando igualmente homens e mulheres e desafiadora dos poderes e instituições afirmou o papel feminino e a sua condição de mulher. Durante a segunda guerra mundial fez frente ao poder da Alemanha nazi, recusando o seu convite para apoiar o reich. Deu apoio à resistência, criou um fundo com Billy Wilder para auxiliar judeus e dissidentes a sair da Alemanha, sendo reconhecida pela sua entrega e prestação à causa recebendo condecorações de vários países. Depois de abandonar o glamour do cinema ainda preencheu os palcos com a sua presença interpretando canções que imortalizara:Falling in Love Again (Can’t Help It), Lili Marlene ou La vie em rose. Nestes espetáculos a sua imagem era ainda a de uma diva, combinando vestidos glamourosos, perucas e uma iluminação de palco em cuja técnica ela era perita. Depois retirou-se definitivamente da vida pública vivendo quase reclusa, com uma saúde débil, no seu quarto em Paris de onde mantinha contacto com o mundo exterior apenas pelo telefone. “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter” disse ela. Aceitou ainda participar num documentário biográfico intitulado simplesmente “Marlene” (1984),  de Maximilian Schell, onde apenas se ouve a sua voz recusando sempre ser filmada. Marlene D. faleceu com 90 anos e teve honras de soldado no seu funeral. Na cerimónia o padre disse: "Todo o mundo conhecia a sua vida como uma artista do cinema e da música, e todo mundo sabia de seus momentos difíceis... Ela viveu como um soldado e gostaria de ser enterrada como um soldado." The rest is history.