When a columnist criticized her look, saying she would have looked better wearing a potato sack, Twentieth Century Fox had a ...

By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer There are several versions of the story behind a series of promotional photos taken in 1951 of Marilyn Monroe wearing a potato sack dress. The best one involves a ...

A fresh-faced Marilyn seductively posed in a potato sack dress for promotional photos for ... a cheeky iteration of wearing one's heart on their sleeve. Before asking Jean Louis to make her ...

Before she was known as Marilyn Monroe ... journalist who disapproved of a sultry red dress Monroe wore, going as far as to say that even a potato sack would have looked better.

In 1951, the press criticized Marilyn Monroe's dress, saying it looked cheap ... saying she would have looked better wearing a potato sack, Twentieth Century Fox had a bit of fun with the jab ...