Video: Happy birthday, Mr. President! ", Or The most scandalous speech of Marilyn Monroe
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
May 19, 1962 actress Marilyn Monroe sang the traditional "Happy birthday" for US President John F. Kennedy, at his 45th birthday concert in New York. Monroe sang a song familiar to everyone in such a provocative manner that the news spread throughout the newspapers and became a landmark moment of the twentieth century. And the dress she wore was auctioned off in 1999 for a shocking $ 1.26 million.
All those present in the hall understood that this was not a simple congratulation. First, the song sounded too intimate, much more intimate than etiquette and decency would allow. Secondly, the wife of President Jacqueline Kennedy, who suspected a possible provocation and did not want public humiliation, was not present in Madison Square Garden and thus attracted more press attention to the incident. Thirdly, this performance was carefully thought out by Marilyn - she had high hopes for it.
15 thousand people gathered in the hall, and everyone was waiting for this moment - the affair between Kennedy and Monroe has long been no secret to anyone. And the performance of the actress only confirmed these rumors. The host of the concert, Peter Lawford, announced her exit several times - and she seemed to be delayed. In fact, these hitchings were planned in advance - when Marilyn finally appeared on the stage, the audience, fueled by anticipation, burst into applause.
This performance by Marilyn Monroe was more than spectacular. She entered the stage in a tight-fitting dress, so tight that it was almost impossible to move in it. And when she threw off her white mink coat, the audience gasped. A translucent flesh-colored dress with a deep neckline was studded with rhinestones and sparkled in the spotlights. There was no linen under it. This dress became as popular as the performance itself. Monroe ordered it from the designer Jean Louis and called this outfit "leather and beads". Initially it cost $ 12,000, and after 37 years it was sold for 1.26 million.
The actress could not boast of outstanding vocal abilities, but no one expected this from her. She sang the song with such a breath that it added ambiguity to the very simple words: “Happy birthday, Mr. President. Thank you for everything you've done. " Journalists later described it this way: "It's like she is making love to the President in front of forty million Americans." Plus, Marilyn was noticeably tipsy. John F. Kennedy took the stage and tried to smooth over the embarrassing situation with a joke: "Now, after having sung Happy Birthday for me so sweetly and cleanly, I can quit politics."
John F. Kennedy was very unhappy with the actress's too frank behavior. According to rumors, shortly thereafter, he made the decision to break up with her. This famous performance turned out to be one of the last public appearances of Marilyn Monroe - less than three months later, she died, allegedly committing suicide. Kennedy will be assassinated 18 months later.
No one could have imagined that the actress would die so early, and when Vogue magazine invited her for another photo shoot, no one knew what it would be last photo shoot Marilyn Monroe
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