Marilyn Monroe performances and awards In it, Monroe stands on a subway grate with the air blowing up the skirt of her white dress, which became one of the most famous scenes of her career. After appearing in "Bus Stop" (1956), Monroe founded her own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, in 1955; the company produced one film independently, "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957). Monroe then appeared in "Some Like It Hot" (1959) and "The Misfits" (1961). She was suspended from the filming of "Something's Got to Give" in June 1962, and the film remained uncompleted when she died in August. Although she was a
White dress of Marilyn Monroe Diana Vreeland, Travilla did not design the dress but actually bought it off the rack, though Travilla denied this. 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, 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 "Ooh, do you feel the breeze from the subway?", as the wind blows the dress up exposing