---
title: "Marilyn Monroe Gets Around"
description: "Car, bikes, trains. Elephants. The quintessential blonde bombshell looked beautiful using all forms of transportation."
date: "2016-02-17"
modified: "2016-02-17"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/2223/marilyn-monroe-gets-around"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "History"
  - "News"
  - "People"
---

# Marilyn Monroe Gets Around

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-hero.jpg>)
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More than any woman before or since, Marilyn Monroe defined the perks and problems of being a movie star. Her zaftig figure, sultry voice and acting prowess brought her fame and fortune, transforming the woman who’d been born Norma Jeane Mortensen into the female face of postwar American culture. Yet her struggles with anxiety and depression led her into a dark pit of addiction that ultimately killed her.

She only lived for 36 years. But in that time, her was image captured on film—both still and moving—on thousands of occasions. She grappled with her dress atop a subway grate, flirted with John F. Kennedy, posed for *Playboy*, and flashed that million-dollar smile over and over and over again. And along the way, the camera caught her in, on, and around just about every form of transportation. She was seen riding bicycles with husband Arthur Miller, waiting for the train at [Grand Central Terminal](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/1333/behind-the-scenes-with-new-yorks-grand-central-fire-brigade>), and posing on the back of a circus elephant. To put it simply, she traveled well.

So we present, without further ado, a gallery of Marilyn Monroe using transportation. Witness our all-time favorite lady, in motion.

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-1\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-1_0.jpg>)
*HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-2\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-2_0.jpg>)
*HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-3\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-3_0.jpg>)
*ED FEINGERSH/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-4\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-4_0.jpg>)
*ERNST HAAS/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-5\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-5_0.jpg>)
*PAT CANDIDO/NY DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE VIA GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-6\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-6_0.jpg>)
*HAROLD CLEMENTS/DAILY EXPRESS/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-7\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-7_0.jpg>)
*KEYSTONE-FRANCE/GAMMA-KEYSTONE VIA GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-8\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-8_0.jpg>)
*ERNST HAAS/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-9\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-9_0.jpg>)
*FRANK WORTH, COURTESY OF CAPITAL ART/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-10\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-10_0.jpg>)
*ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-11\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-11_0.jpg>)
*ARCHIVE PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-12\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-12_0.jpg>)
*EARL THEISEN/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-13\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-13_0.jpg>)
*MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-14\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-14_0.jpg>)
*ERNST HAAS/ERNST HAAS/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-15\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-15_0.jpg>)
*MONDADORI PORTFOLIO VIA GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-16\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-16_0.jpg>)
*FRANK WORTH, COURTESY OF CAPITAL ART/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-17\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-17_0.jpg>)
*ERNST HAAS/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-18\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-18_0.jpg>)
*ED FEINGERSH/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-19\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-19_0.jpg>)
*ULLSTEIN BILD VIA GETTY IMAGES*

![marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-20\_0.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/marilyn-monroe-moving-ss-20_0.jpg>)
*ULLSTEIN BILD VIA GETTY IMAGES*

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/willsabelcourtney>)  
[Twitter](<https://twitter.com/willscourtney>)