When did Marilyn Monroe first start to lose her looks?

Yes she did lose her looks, all those drugs showed through the makeup. She was very ordinary looking without it, she even said it took her 5 hours too look like Marilyn Monroe.

I'll bump up this thread, why not? I think that Marilyn Monroe was gifted with a bevy of gorgeous natural attributes, she DID begin to look beat up and rough around the edges, starting in 1959. You can skirt through your 20's using drugs and booze and not have it show on your face and body too badly, but by the time you're pushing 40, or over over 35, you begin to 'wear' your lifestyle.

Lack of sleep was a big factor, I'm speculating. She had awful insomnia and even the rest she got was induced by drugs. Question: was she a smoker? I've seen her smoke in movies, but can't tell if she was a daily puffer.

I think she looks amazing in Niagra, GPB,The Itch...but in SGTG, you can see something is 'off.' The Misfits is fascinating in terms of her looks because I think she vacillates, sometimes minute-to-minute, between stunningly beautiful and completely worn-out.

I didn't like the blazing white hair; it aged her by the time she was over 35; it was simply too harsh. Ditto for the dark eyebrows and mascara.

It would have been very interesting to see her age gracefully---if that were possible.

She never lost her looks. She was only 36 when she died.

She was at her prime in the mid 50s, circa Niagara, How to Marry a Millionaire, and The Seven Year Itch, but she still looked good, at least on film, right until the end (i.e. Some Like It Hot and The Misfits).

I would say shortly after her death.

She never lost her looks. She was never old enough to "lose her looks." That's one of the reasons why there's such a fascination with her -- she's forever young in ever movie, every photograph.

When her body dropped to room temperature.

She died young, and never lost her looks.

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