Marilyn Monroe posing as her idol, Jean Harlow, for Richard Avedon, 1958. The shoot was part of a larger collection for a piece entitled “Fabled Enchantresses” for Life Magazine.
“So many people say I look like Jean Harlow, and I’d love to do her life story. I never saw any of her pictures, but from her photographs I am proud that I am said to look like her.” —Marilyn to Louella Parsons in 1952.