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This Throwback Photo Shoot of Viola Davis Channeling Marilyn Monroe is Everything

Avatar • Aug 9, 2015

Back in 2009 Viola Davis had just received an Oscar nomination for Doubt. It would be two years before her award-winning performance in The Help and five years before How To Get Away With Murder solidified her as a mainstream star. In 2009 Viola did a photo shoot for the June issue of O Magazine wearing looks inspired by Marilyn Monroe. And it is everything!

Viola modeled 10 looks for the spread, entitled Retro Fashion with Timeless Glamour, and discussed her rising fame;

โ€œโ€œItโ€™s good this happened later in life, because Iโ€™m more comfortable with how I look now,โ€ says Davis, 43. โ€œIโ€™m not comparing my body with Halle Berryโ€™s anymore!โ€ฆ โ€œIโ€™ve been catapulted out of my former life,โ€ she says. What sustains her is a sense of โ€œwhat is reliable and constant and true.โ€โ€

Check out the gorgeous photosโ€ฆ

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Gorgeous!

Photo Credit: O Magazine

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Whacheekong
Whacheekong
5 years ago

Sheโ€™s absolutely gorgeous! <3

Mom_of_IV
Mom_of_IV
5 years ago

gorgeous photos of Violaโ€ฆmy favorite is #4

Paula Galloway
Paula Galloway
5 years ago
Reply to  Mom_of_IV

Itโ€™s good, but #6 is everything. She is GIVING IT in her slung-over coat.

Mom_of_IV
Mom_of_IV
5 years ago
Reply to  Paula Galloway

all of her photos are beautiful, but #4 is the only one where she is looking directly into the camera and you see those gorgeous eyes, lips, and cheekbones of hers separated by her defining noseโ€ฆadd her feminine shape and legs with the black fitted dress slightly over the knees to accentuate her shape and they tell the whole storyโ€ฆ
To me, that photo represents Viola as sultry, seductive, and feminine and all while being a chocolate sista who is representing for the rest of us.

Kita Williams
Kita Williams
5 years ago
Reply to  Mom_of_IV

#4 is how she got that fine cop in HTGAWM lol thatโ€™s my fav as well

eljjai
eljjai
5 years ago

I am here for Ms Davis, all day every day!

Claudette UK
Claudette UK
5 years ago

She looks sultry and beautiful. Pity she couldnโ€™t have posed with her own hair though.

trolls
trolls
5 years ago
Reply to  Claudette UK

Not vintage 1940โ€™s and 1950โ€™s America glamour Hollywood she could not with her natural hairโ€ฆ

kxlot79
kxlot79
5 years ago

Lovely! ?

Joan Walters
5 years ago

I so love her with her TWA but these are gorgeous shots. I love that polka dot skirt.

Paula Galloway
Paula Galloway
5 years ago

Well, where the HELL have these pictures been?! why is this the first Iโ€™m hearing of these?! I am DEAD from her eleganza!

DeepCherrish
DeepCherrish
5 years ago

She looks beautiful, but Marylin Monroe was not and is not someone anyone should admire.

Erica Rascon
Erica Rascon
5 years ago

Superb! Lovely! Brightened my lunch break ๐Ÿ™‚

jjac401
jjac401
5 years ago

Stunning!!!!!

Corelle Perry
Corelle Perry
5 years ago

gorgeous!

Staci Elle
5 years ago

Yass mama! She made me get my life with these pictures, thanks for sharing ๐Ÿ™‚

lis
lis
5 years ago

I was about to sayโ€ฆMarilyn Monroeโ€ฆwhy???..Then I saw the photos and ms.Viola looks good as hell.

stara
stara
5 years ago

Itโ€™s insane to me that she had body insecurities. Her body is rockinโ€™ even by Halle Berry standards,

Ajah
Ajah
5 years ago
Reply to  stara

I would like to second that.

Ajah
Ajah
5 years ago

Gorgeous photo shoot. I love and absolutely hate her in How to get away with murder.

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