On the Internet, you can often find the phrase “Give the girl the right shoes, and she will win the world”, the authorship of which is attributed to the American movie star. We checked whether Marilyn Monroe said these words.
Alleged statement Monroe is very Popular V Internet. It can be found on sites With the collections of popular Quote, V articles About this Actress In the glossy magazines, V social networks And Blogs. Often Mention its online stores shoes And accessories.
Marilyn Monroe (real name-Norma Jin Baker)-film actress, sex symbol and the favorite of the 50s. She gained popularity thanks to her roles in films "Gentlemen prefer blondes" And "There are only girls in jazz", Which have become cult all over the world. She really belongs to several similar winged expressions. So, she Singingthat "diamonds are the best friends of the girls" and She saidthat "a smile is the best makeup that a girl can wear." It is not surprising that Marilyn Monroe began to attribute a quote about shoes. However, there is no evidence that she has ever said something similar. IN collection There were nothing similar to her letters, notes and diaries, as in Autobiography.
Our colleagues from Quote Investigator - a resource specializing in checking the correct attribution of quotes - discoveredthat the first mention of a similar phrase appeared in 1980 in the journal Trenton Evening Times in an interview with the American actress and singer Bett Midler. She was asked a question about shoes, and she answered this: “I am convinced that with the right shoes you can rule the world” (“I Firmly Believe that with the Right Footwear One Canle the World”). September 22, 1985, this quote with the attribution of Midler was mentioned in article In The Straits Times, in the form in which we are used to it. Team Quote Investigator discovered A few more examples of mentioning this quote in the media indicating the authorship of Bett Midler. Maurilin Monroe began to attribute this quote only in the early 2000s.
Thus, there is not a single evidence that Monroe has ever pronounced a similar quote about the right shoes. Probably, she began to ascribe someone else's statement due to the fact that she really spoke in an interview or films similar phrases, for example, “Diamonds are the best friends of the girls”. In fact, the first similar said actress Bett Midler, and then, after several inaccurate citation, the phrase modified and dispersed already in the option that we are used to. It is interesting that if you look for this quote with the name Monroe, you can find a lot pictures with its initials, however, if you enter a request with the name Midler, then no less will appear picturesWhere the quote is attributed to her.
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