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Marilyn Monroe photographed in her fur coat looking star struck with Ed McMahon 💋 "After several months I finally got my orders to Korea, by way of the El Toro Marine Air Station in California. This was the first time in my adult life I’d been to southern California, and I wanted to see Hollywood. A friend of a friend was the assistant musical director at 20th Century Fox and he invited me onto the lot. We spent a brief time together and then he asked, calmly, as I remember it- much the same way he might have asked if I wanted a cool drink- “Captain McMahon, would you like to meet Marilyn Monroe?” Calmly, as I remember it- as casually as I might have acted if he had asked me if I would like to be king of England- I said, “Yeah. That’d be great." Meet Marilyn Monroe? Not a difficult question. I probably could even have answered that one in German. I mean, that’s like asking someone if they would like to take their next breath. Marilyn Monroe was shooting How to Marry a Millionaire. When she finished her scene, they brought me to her trailer. They explained to her that I was a TV star from Philadelphia who had been recalled and was on his way to Korea. Her face lit up. As soon as she finished the picture, she told me, she was going to go to Korea to entertain the troops. And then she invited me inside her trailer. It was just the two of us in her trailer, just Marilyn Monroe and Ed McMahon. We spent a half hour together. Marilyn Monroe in person was as beautiful as she was in the fantasies of every American male. She was dressed casually in a pair of slacks and a loose blouse, but she was radiant. She was also sweet. I don’t remember what we spoke about, but as I prepared to leave, she said, “It’s so nice to meet you. Now I’ll know somebody when I get to Korea. How can I find you when I get there?” The Marine Corps would know where I was stationed, I replied, then said, “I’ve got to ask you a favor. If I could have a picture of you I could show the guys in the squadron, I’d be the hero of heroes. They’d go wacko!" Actually, looking back, "wacko" was probably a poor word choice. ”I’ve got a better idea," she said. "Why don’t we take a picture? Let me just fix my hair and I’ll be right out.” I waited outside for her. When she finally came out, she was dressed in a gorgeous fur coat. She kind of snuggled in next to me and, as the photographer got ready to take our picture, whispered to me, “You know, Ed, I don’t have anything on under this.” .. So that’s why I’m smiling so broadly in that photograph." ~ For Laughing Out Loud: My Life and Good Times by Ed McMahon (and David Fisher) #MM #Marilyn #normajeane #edmcmahon #normajeanebaker #NormaJeaneMortenson #1950s #blonde #beautiful #marilynmonroethemmmmgirl #Stunning #actress #inlovingmemoryofmarilynmonroe xoxo