Marilyn Monroe’s only Oscars appearance featured a major fashion mishap
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- 10 Mar 2023
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Ahead of this year's Oscars, Vogue looks back at Marilyn Monroe's Oscars moment in 1951 - her only real appearance at the Academy Awards - and the story behind her dress.
Marilyn Monroe: When the A-list descends on the Ovation Hollywood for the Oscars on 12 March, not one but two of the Best Actress nominees will have been feted for playing the late Marilyn Monroe: Ana de Armas in Andrew Dominik’s much-pilloried Blonde, of course, but also Michelle Williams, who got a nod from the Academy for her turn in My Week With Marilyn more than a decade before her recognition for 2022’s The Fabelmans. And yet, despite taking home a Golden Globe for Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, Monroe herself was never actually in the running for an Oscar.
In fact, she attended the ceremony only once, as a presenter rather than a nominee. Still a star on the rise at that point, she had made a cameo as the breathless Miss Caswell, “a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Arts,” in All About Eve, and Joseph L Mankiewicz’s picture had scooped a cool 14 Academy Award nominations at the 1951 Oscars – a record matched only by Titanic and La La Land many decades later. The 25-year-old pin-up had been tapped to hand out the award for Best Sound Recording – a category in which All About Eve was up against Walt Disney’s Cinderella, among other films. Read More…
