| 翻訳と辞書 |
| White dress of Marilyn Monroe ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
White dress of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe wore a white dress in the 1955 film ''The Seven Year Itch'', directed by Billy Wilder. The dress was created by costume designer William Travilla and was worn in one of the best-known scenes in the movie.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Travilla Biography (1920–1990) )〕 The dress is regarded as an icon of film history and the image of Monroe in the white dress standing above a subway grating blowing the dress up has been described as one of the iconic images of the 20th century.
==Background and history==
When the costume designer William Travilla, known simply as Travilla, began working with Marilyn Monroe, he had already won an Oscar for his work in ''The Adventures of Don Juan'' in 1948. When Travilla began working with Marilyn in 1952 in ''Don't Bother to Knock'', he was still one of the many costume designers of 20th Century Fox. Travilla designed the clothes of the actress in eight films, and according to his revelation, also had a brief affair.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=She was the easiest person I ever worked with )〕 In 1955 he designed the white cocktail dress worn by Marilyn Monroe while his wife Dona Drake was on vacation. It remains his most famous work.〔 According to ''Hollywood Costume: Glamour! Glitter! Romance!'' by Dale McConathy and Diana Vreeland, Travilla did not design the dress but actually bought it off the rack (although the costume designer always denied this claim).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Travilla )〕
In the film, the white dress appears in the sequence in which Marilyn Monroe and co-star Tom Ewell exit the Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theatre,〔(Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theatre, 586 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10154 )〕 then located at 586 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, having just watched the 1954 horror film ''Creature from the Black Lagoon''. When they hear a subway train passing below the grate in the sidewalk, Monroe's character steps onto the grate saying "Ooo, do you feel the breeze from the subway?", as the wind blows the dress up exposing her legs. Originally the scene had been scheduled to shoot on the street outside the Trans-Lux at 1:00 am on 15 September 1954. However, the presence of the actress and the movie cameras caught the curiosity of hundreds of fans, so the director Billy Wilder was forced to reshoot the moment on a set at 20th Century Fox.〔("Marilyn" Essay by George S. Zimbel. Montreal, July 2000. )〕 The depiction of Monroe over the grate has been compared to a similar event in the 1901 short film ''What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City''.〔Rosemary Hanes with Brian Taves. "(Moving Image Section—Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division )" The Library of Congress. Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕〔Lee Grieveson, Peter Krämer. ''The silent cinema reader'' (2004) ISBN 0-415-25283-0, ISBN 0-415-25284-9, Tom Gunning "The Cinema of Attractions" (p.46 ). Retrieved 5 January 2011.〕 It has also been described as one of the iconic images of the entire 20th century.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Seven Year Itch )〕
After Monroe's death in 1962, Travilla kept the dress locked up with many of the costumes he had made over the years for the actress, to the point that for years there was talk of a "Lost Collection".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=William Travilla )〕 Only after his own death in 1990, were the clothes put on display by Bill Sarris, a colleague of Travilla. It joined the private collection of Hollywood memorabilia owned by Debbie Reynolds at the Hollywood Motion Picture Museum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Collection )〕 During an interview with Oprah Winfrey, speaking of the Monroe dress, Reynolds stated that "(dress ) has become ecru because as you know it is very very old now."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Debbie Reynolds' Hollywood Treasures )〕 In 2011, however, Reynolds announced that she would sell the entire collection at an auction, to be held in stages, the first on 18 June 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Debbie Reynolds’ Costume Collection Up For Auction )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Debbie Reynolds The Auction )〕 Before the auction, it was estimated that the dress would sell for a price between $1 and 2 million, but it actually sold for more than $5.6 million ($4.6 million plus a $1 million commission).
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「White dress of Marilyn Monroe」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|