Post by Admin on Mar 9, 2023 13:08:38 GMT -4
Miss Lincoln didn't keep this dress she ended up burning it.
Abbey Lincoln began her career as a glamour girl but ended up as a revered elder of jazz, renowned for artistic integrity and daring. In her film debut, the 1956 comedy The Girl Can’t Help It, Lincoln sang while dressed in a gown previously worn by Marilyn Monroe. But after immersing herself in the civil-rights movement, Lincoln abandoned her kittenish pose, dumping the Monroe dress in an incinerator as an act of liberation.
In an attempt to “escape” the societal objectifications, Lincoln indifferently admitted to the press that shortly after the film, she burned the dress in an incinerator to ensure she would never wear it again. Lincoln goes on further to say that the gown had the power to ruin her career and even her life.
