...and it's not JFK whom I mean to remember:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iH3oOVKt0WI

I was about to post a reminder myself.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President Lincoln, and thank you!!!!

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(02-12-2017 02:35 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

If that's Marilyn Monroe, she did not select a very good photo of Abraham Lincoln. One of his Presidential photographs would have been much better.

David, it is indeed her. Here are two more photos:

I was at the Lincoln Memorial for his celebration

(02-12-2017 02:54 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  I was about to post a reminder myself.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President Lincoln, and thank you!!!!

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(02-12-2017 02:35 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

If that's Marilyn Monroe, she did not select a very good photo of Abraham Lincoln. One of his Presidential photographs would have been much better.

Why isn't it a good photo? I like it. Of course, the presidential ones are the most telling ones. One of my very favorite ones yet is the one he himself found “a very true one,” though Mrs.

Lincoln “and many others” did not agree as they - he believed - objected to “the
disordered condition of the hair”:
   

The photo of Marilyn Monroe gazing at Lincoln you refer to was taken in August of 1955 in Bryant Cottage in Bement Illinois during her visit there for their Centennial celebration. [T]he amazing fact [is] that 20,000 people came to see her!



I checked and the whole story appears to be true. If it were not Marilyn Monroe, I would not believe the story. It is a very good "Marilyn Monroe" story from beginning to the end and well worth reading. According to the newspaper story, it was 28,000 people (not 20,000) who came to see her and she had to get a police escort provided by the Governor of Illinois to get her back to Chicago in time for her flight back to New York City.

The story appeared in the Champaign, Illinois News-Gazette on August 6, 2015.

60 years ago, Marilyn Monroe Came to Town


Monroe was paid $500 for her appearance. She told people she wanted to visit the Bryant Cottage because it was where Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had discussed their famous debates.

While at the cottage, Monroe, a fan of Lincoln, gave a brief speech about the 16th president that she had written on the flight from New York to Chicago.

"I think ... of Lincoln as my father. He was a good and wise man," reads a Monroe quote displayed at Bryant Cottage.

The photo in which Marilyn is holding Abraham Lincoln's picture was taken in Los Angeles in 1954 by photographer Milton H. Greene.

https://www.iconicimages.net/photographe...onroe.html

(02-12-2017 09:34 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  The photo of Marilyn Monroe gazing at Lincoln you refer to was taken in August of 1955 in Bryant Cottage in Bement Illinois during her visit there for their Centennial celebration. [T]he amazing fact [is] that 20,000 people came to see her!



I checked and the whole story appears to be true. If it were not Marilyn Monroe, I would not believe the story. It is a very good "Marilyn Monroe" story from beginning to the end and well worth reading. According to the newspaper story, it was 28,000 people (not 20,000) who came to see her and she had to get a police escort provided by the Governor of Illinois to get her back to Chicago in time for her flight back to New York City.

The story appeared in the Champaign, Illinois News-Gazette on August 6, 2015.

60 years ago, Marilyn Monroe Came to Town


Monroe was paid $500 for her appearance. She told people she wanted to visit the Bryant Cottage because it was where Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas had discussed their famous debates.

While at the cottage, Monroe, a fan of Lincoln, gave a brief speech about the 16th president that she had written on the flight from New York to Chicago.

"I think ... of Lincoln as my father. He was a good and wise man," reads a Monroe quote displayed at Bryant Cottage.

Thanks, David! Very interesting background info!

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(02-13-2017 04:58 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  The photo in which Marilyn is holding Abraham Lincoln's picture was taken in Los Angeles in 1954 by photographer Milton H. Greene.

https://www.iconicimages.net/photographe...onroe.html

Nice photo description!

(02-13-2017 04:58 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  The photo in which Marilyn is holding Abraham Lincoln's picture was taken in Los Angeles in 1954 by photographer Milton H. Greene.

https://www.iconicimages.net/photographe...onroe.html

Roger, as usual, you are absolutely correct about your Lincoln historical facts. I had ASSUMED that the photograph at the first website I visited with the Marilyn Monroe and Bement, Illinois story would have a photograph of her from that day. I grew up in Decatur, Illinois which is not too far from Bement; I was eight at the time. And, we do not have many palm trees in Illinois because of the long and cold winters there. The background of the photo shows a number of palm trees.

But I am glad that Eva Elisabeth liked the newspaper story. I thought that it was very well written. It was much better written than the story I found on the same subject in my hometown newspaper, the Decatur Herald-Review.

(02-13-2017 10:57 AM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  

(02-13-2017 04:58 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  The photo in which Marilyn is holding Abraham Lincoln's picture was taken in Los Angeles in 1954 by photographer Milton H. Greene.

https://www.iconicimages.net/photographe...onroe.html

...The background of the photo shows a number of palm trees.

Absolutely love the entire photo and setting...here's more of all:
   

If you watched the tour of the White House documentary with Mrs. Kennedy, were you struck by her breathless, somewhat dainty voice being so similar to Marilyn's tone?

I hope you all had a fun Lincoln Birthday!

I tried something new this year and posted a challenge on my blog after a friend from Denmark had suggested to celebrate by "doing as Lincoln did" (she herself went to the theatre with her brother).

Only 1 person messaged me back having taken on the task to read Euclid, 4 went for Shakespeare and an awesome 63 let me know that they walked two miles to drop 2 cents with a Happy Birthday, Lincoln note at the end of the stroll.
I was most impressed on how many cakes there were...!

I played with my Lincoln Logs and then took a nap.

I am totally impressed by the way Angela's cat, Socks, watches the movie Lincoln. Vicki and I have had no luck in teaching our cat, Addison, to watch Lincoln movies. Kudos, Angela. You have one special kitty!

Angela posted some photos here and there are more here:
http://allthingslincoln.tumblr.com/