Marilyn Monroe posed for photographer Richard Avedon in 1958 wearing a dress inspired by the one worn by actress Theda Bara as Cleopatra in a 1917 film. Richard Avedon had to photograph Marilyn and recreate images of five famous actresses from the 1930s. Theda Bara was one of them. Once the photos were published, Avedon lost the negatives. He finally found them among some books during a house move in 2000.
Marilyn was interested in serious roles and Twentieth Century Fox kept putting her in dumb blonde roles. She hated those roles.
Anyway, some of Marilyn poses as other actresses included Jean Harlow, Clara Bow, Marlene Dietrich and Lillian Russell. Here's a link if anyone wants to view these photos.
http://www.marilynmonroe.ca/camera/galleries/avedon/index.htm
I found this AI video on YouTube that expresses how great of a Cleopatra she could have been given the chance.
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