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Thank you for loving Marilyn right alongside me.
Thank you for every kind word, every interaction, and for keeping her memory shining so brightly with me every day.✨

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I’ve been researching Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Marilyn Monroe for YEARS and somehow only just discovered one of the strangest lost mysteries connected to the film.
Most fans already know about the deleted “Down Boy” number, but while researching old production information and archive discussions, I came across references to another allegedly cut song titled ‘When the Wild Wild Women Go Swimmin’ Down in Bimini Bay’ something I had genuinely NEVER heard about before.
What makes this even more interesting is how little information seems to exist about it. Unlike “Down Boy” or the rumored “Four French Dances” sequence, almost nobody talks about “Bimini Bay,” and the surviving details are incredibly vague.
Some researchers have connected it to the long-rumored deleted sequence known as “Four French Dances,” but honestly, I’m not fully convinced they were the same thing. “Bimini Bay” sounds much more tropical and summery than French-themed, which makes me wonder if it may have actually been an entirely separate deleted musical number.
Descriptions of “Four French Dances” have also changed depending on the source. Some claim the sequence was entirely instrumental, while others say Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell may have performed a French-language version of “Two Little Girls from Little Rock,” alongside elaborate Paris-inspired staging, can-can dancers, crescent moon props, and French costumes. Meanwhile, “Bimini Bay” feels like something completely different tonally almost like a tropical stage performance that may have been removed early in production.

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Comedian Milton Berle lifting Marilyn Monroe at a charity event. The two were promoting the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus benefit for arthritis in March 1955. The photograph was taken at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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"She's plain and honest and warm and shy. Just like Joe. They were made for each other. I know it sounds corny, but it's true. They like the same things. They never go out to night clubs. They hang around here watching television, making idle talk. I knew she was a good girl the first time Joe brought her up.
Right away she was helping with the dishes. All she wants to do is to be with Joe. That's a good sign. And another thing, so much of the stuff that's been written about her is just bunk. It really gets me mad." —Marie DiMaggio (Joe's sister) to Modern Screen Magazine, 1954.

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt in 1953.

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Marilyn Monroe at the Cinemascope party celebrating their first anniversary on September 15, 1954.

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Marilyn Monroe wearing the 'Tiger' dress by William Travilla, on the set in The Seven Year Itch, 1954. Photo by Sam Shaw.

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"Please let me tell you why I formed my own company, seemingly so quickly. I am not angry with 20th Century-Fox. I believe The Seven Year Itch is the best picture of my career. But I have such a deep fear of not managing my business properly and of being alone —and broke-when I am older. I've known too much insecurity in my life not to want above all else, real security against the day when they don't want me anymore." —Marilyn Monroe Modern Screen Magazine, 1955.

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Milton Green in 1955.

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"The week before she took an overd*se of sleeping pills and died, a magazine printed an interview with Marilyn Monroe in which she said: " That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate being a thing." But because symbols are so much easier to manipulate (and to comprehend) than individuals, the world insisted that she remain one. She struggled against this fate and the record of that struggle, sometimes comic, more frequently touching, filled pages of the public prints and many moments in the conversations of ordinary people who, in more limited ways, must fight the same fight for identity. In the end, it became necessary for Marilyn Monroe to break off the unequal combat. She died the way the movie stars of fiction so frequently do, and on the morning that it happened one could find shock and sorrow but no real surprise. The symbol died with symbolic rightness. Her death had about it an air of inevitability, perhaps even of tragedy! -The Stars Magazine, 1962.

Marilyn Monroe at Mocambo Club in Los Angeles on October 25, 1951.

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Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum on the set of River of No Return.

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Nickolas Muray, 1952.

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