Sig, I'm afraid that pretty much everybody knows what Norma Jean looked like before the nose job and hair bleach. ![Sad :(](https://threestooges.net/forums/Smileys/default/sad.gif)
You're right, Sven, of course it was MM. Some work for me came up, and I knew it would be a while before I would make it back here.
The picture I posted on 22.October was MM made up as silent star, Theda Bara. It was part of a photo shoot in which she appeared as several other famous actresses of which these are two more:
Clara Bow:
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Marlene Dietrich:
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I planned to post these as further clues before I knew I would be too busy to post at all. I didn't want to leave people hanging in case they asked for clues for the original picture, so I posted an easily identifiable picture of MM. I decided to use a photo instead of just saying who the mystery actor was.
It also happens that I prefer her pictures from her early days, back when she was Norma Jean, like this:
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I'm sorry for a post which didn't turn out as I planned.