<\/a>Marilyn Monroe had two parakeets<\/b>, Butch and Bobo. Norman Rosten (Marilyn: The Untold Story<\/em>) wrote about Butch: \u201cMarilyn calls to him; he sits on her shoulder, she coos and whistles, carries him to her lips, and ole Butch leans over and kisses her. \u2018You\u2019re a cute parakeet,\u2019 Marilyn says to Butch. Butch loves to hear her voice, figuring she\u2019s just as cute as a parakeet herself. I believe that Butch is in love with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

*I couldn’t find a photo of Marilyn with a budgie, so these photos by Cecil Beaton will have to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marilyn Monroe had two parakeets, Butch and Bobo. Norman Rosten (Marilyn: The Untold Story) wrote about Butch: \u201cMarilyn calls to him; he sits on her shoulder, she coos and whistles, carries him to her lips, and ole Butch leans over … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[7,1726,1168,2289,170,6],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-starring-roles","tag-budgie","tag-budgie-movie-star","tag-budgies-and-celebrities","tag-cooper","tag-marilyn-monroe","tag-parakeet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7708,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions\/7708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooperscorner.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}