Alfred Eisenstadt, 1953
As St Valentine’s Day approaches, Pamela Keogh (author of Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn?) offers some advice on writing love letters, Marilyn-style.
‘Be like Marilyn Monroe and scrawl your name at the bottom with great abandon, as if you are a Hollywood star. Give the impression this is no big deal: you send dozens of these notes to your admirers. (Which you probably do.)
Be sure to write “PERSONAL” on the back flap so that his secretary/assistant does not open it by mistake. Marilyn spritzed her letters with perfume* but personally (unless he is serving in the armed forces overseas), we think this is a bit much.’
* N.B. Marilyn didn’t spritz all her letters with perfume, only a select few!
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