Marilyn Monroe on the cover of “Movie Time,” Vol. 2, No. 6 (February 1954)
Cover girl Marilyn Monroe wears the famed “Moon of Baroda” 500-year-old diamond from the collection of Meyer Rosenbaum, Detroit. Inside the magazine is a 3-page story delving into her insecurities in her acting and personal life.
On her press tour for “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (in which she sang the film’s most famous song, “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend”), she sported The Moon of Baroda, a truly incredible 24-carat yellow gem with an even more incredible backstory that spans from the fabled mines of India to European courts to “American royalty”. It was Meyer who proposed that she wear the stone dangling from a simple but sturdy leather cord during multiple shoots for the movie, and then continued to lend it to her for the duration of her promotional tour.
Marilyn Monroe on the cover of “Movie Time,” Vol. 2, No. 6 (February 1954)
Cover girl Marilyn Monroe wears the famed “Moon of Baroda” 500-year-old diamond from the collection of Meyer Rosenbaum, Detroit. Inside the magazine is a 3-page story delving into her insecurities in her acting and personal life.
On her press tour for “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (in which she sang the film’s most famous song, “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend”), she sported The Moon of Baroda, a truly incredible 24-carat yellow gem with an even more incredible backstory that spans from the fabled mines of India to European courts to “American royalty”. It was Meyer who proposed that she wear the stone dangling from a simple but sturdy leather cord during multiple shoots for the movie, and then continued to lend it to her for the duration of her promotional tour.