marilyn monroe, blonde bombshell. get out the fire hose. hollywood super star. the late marilyn monroe. tragic victim. the story of marilyn monroe is an authentic tragedy. when we talk about marilyn poor marilyn, this vulnerable passive woman who is being destroyed by hollywood. that s the way the story frames her. after a reckoning in hollywood, it s time to reframe her story. now it can hit pause and roll it back a bit and ask ourselves, okay, what is it that we think we know? she was quite ahead of her time. and she was very much an architect of her own fame. you must think i was born yesterday. her performances are layered. they re funny. they re tender. they re human. they feel modern. bingo. she had a deep inner life. she was an artist. she was a poet. she was a businesswoman. what a power broker she was, renegotiating her contract, creating her own production company, getting films made. it s actually rather frustrating that people can t
they went to the beach and took photographs in the surf. since their road trip four years earlier, marilyn has transformed. she s no longer a naïve young model. she is a rising star. i see pure joy. you can just sort of see the comet, a little light up there in the skies is starting to twinkle. this is something unique. something in the way she and the camera related to each other. the camera was her lover, truly. people talk about these pictures as the moment when she was becoming marilyn. creating marilyn might be a more active way of putting it. she was finding her power. she was finding her talent. she was learning how to own her career.
transformed spanish dancer margarita cansino into hollywood star rita hayworth in the 1930s. she was what they would have called ethnic in those days, meaning she was latina. and they dyed her hair. she underwent electrolysis to raise her hair line so she looked more waspy. and it turned her into a huge box office star. hollywood studios are pressuring people to meet an ideal. in some cases, it s about enhancing beauty. in other cases, it s about wiping away ethnic traces. for marilyn, going blonde, it was like the hollywood star building machine. and she saw what it could do for her. it gave marilyn an extra charge in her looks. it took her to another level.
skank loved marilyn, thought she was amazing. and she became his favorite girl. marilyn knew that this was a very powerful connection to make. and the two ended up forming a sort of intimate relationship. she understood that you either said i don t like these rules and therefore i m not playing your game, and therefore you give up your dreams of a career. or you recognize that those are the rules of the game, and you decide how you are going to deal with it. skank is on the board at 20th century fox. but instead of pulling strings with darryl zanuck to get marilyn her job back, he puts in a word with another pal. the boss of a rival studio. harry cohn, who was the head of columbia pictures introduced, understood, and manipulated the star-making process. cohn offers marilyn a