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Sleepovers with Marilyn Monroe. ♡

➳ An ︎Inside look of Marilyn’s home (Part 3): 882 North Doheny Dr. 1953.

This was her thirty-fifth apartment/house she lived in up until this point, and she was twenty-seven at the time. Although she tried to make each place feel like home, this was one of her first official apartments - the others were rooms rented at hotels. When she first moved in, Joe DiMaggio, whom she’d been dating for about a year, helped her move in. After doing so, Jane Russell helped with some ideas for the interior design. The apartment was on the first floor and just a small three-room apartment with a fireplace and white carpeting. 

In her living room, she proudly displayed her baby grand piano, which was newly painted white. Her book collection sat on custom made shelves that lined her wall above her red couch. Her tables, both a side table and chest, has clocks, lamps, flowers, small decor trinkets like candle sticks and drinking glasses that are likely in a silver color. Many of her pieces similar that were auctioned after her death were silver. 

She had a large TV set, likely for Joe as Marilyn rarely watch television, she preferred reading and listening to music, and her fireplace is visual. On the table text to her rests two pictures of her as a little girl. <3 On her wall is an art portrait and lined on the shelves are her three awards: Redbook Award, Henrietta Award, Look Magazine Plaque which was presented to her by Lauren Bacall. On the table in front of her is a dish platter as she looks through some letters. 

In her bedroom, she has the same bedding as she did at her Beverly Carlton apt., and on her bedside table are a small collection of books, likely the ones she was reading at the time. A glass dish is in the center next to a bottle of Chanel No. 5. It was 1953 that she first public stated she slept only in that perfume. Her travel clock by Westclox sits next to her lamp.