Watching again today and just do not understand why Marilyn's makeup made her look so blue. Not sure what they were trying to accomplish...but it just looks so unnatural compared to the rest of the cast.
shareI don't notice that she looks "blue" but it is a dead, chalky pallor. (Relentless HD "restoration" of films often reveals things that were never intended to be revealed.)
She wanted the character to look beat-up and exhausted, not glamorous. She succeeded.
THANK YOU!
I asked that question myself when I first saw this film earlier this year. I watched it again today and you can actually see how as the film progresses, her makeup goes from a palish grey/blue/white to the the truly unnatural, garish mauve blue she appears at the end.
"If you don't know the answer -change the question."
Perhaps they wanted her to look unnatural because she was supposed to be this Angelic beauty with striking skin? Whatever the reason is, it definitely looked awful at the end.
Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!
It was HER choice. She felt the character should look tired, beat. And that's how it looked before excessive "restoration." But that said, her choice wasn't popular with the studio.
shareI am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006.
I came here to ask the same thing. I thought it was my 10 year old television..lol! She goes from looking pink, stark white, and sometimes lavendar. Does not look good. Wonder upon seeing the final film if she was disappointed?
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
I read a review and I thought, this is kind of true:
Her skin is as chalky as a vampire’s, to show how the poor girl’s nocturnal life denies her sunlight.
She was supposedly made up to look malnourished.
One critic said she looked like she had pellagra.
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