to look as beautiful or similiar to Norma Jean Mortenson it would be Lana. Not Marilyn Monroe but Norma Jean
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I wrote a thread about that at the Marilyn board. I even selected pictures from my collection where the resemblance between the two is uncanny. However, it would be the other way around; Norma Jeane resembled Lana as she was older and was on the scene way before Norma became Marilyn.
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well i def see the resemblance man...norma jean has no other close resemblance to this day but had...in lana turner
shareIn this 4 shots there is a very strong resemblance.
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h182/Em28_2006/lana12.jpg
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h182/Em28_2006/lana10.jpg
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h182/Em28_2006/lana7.jpg
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h182/Em28_2006/lana6.jpg
One of the things was the Lana was probably the first non-dumb blonde of the screen as compared to Marilyn's dumb blonde persona.
Makes me wonder what Lana really thought of Marilyn. Lana;s hairdresser Eric Root wrote a little book in which he said MM and Lana knew each other and that the latter had helped MM with her looks.
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I find that Kim Novak's filmography feels more like a successor's to Lana's than Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe and Jean Harlow I understand the comparison but not to Lana Turner. Not saying that they look alike (Kim and Lana) but both are now forgotten bombshells and I can only think of once when Kim played a dumb girl role.
Both hit their stride at age 25, Lana with The Postman Always Rings Twice and Kim with Vertigo.
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Lana said in her book that "some say" her look in The Postman Always Rings Twice was copied by Marilyn later. I do not see much of a resemblance in their facial features, both were incredibly beautiful and glamorous. I am sure Marilyn was influenced by Jean and by Lana, yet on screen Jean, Lana and Marilyn are all very different kind of women.
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TROY202:
I clicked on your first link ithout reading it or noticing that all 4 were Lana...I thought for sure it was Marilyn/Norma Jean!
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They say that beauty is not entirely subjective and has more to do with facial symmetry.
Even infants respond to it.
Although Lana didn't usually look noticeably similar to Norma Jean with any regularity, there are times -- depending on what Lana was doing with her hair -- where I've seen it, too. There is one point in the late-'40s when she took on a bit of that MM look.
And when Lana went brunette for a while, with that short, cropped cut, she could resemble Elizabeth Taylor from the correct angle.
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