she could manifest the kind of magic she came into the world with it. he said i looked so fresh and young. they said i have a three-dimensional quality having to do with sex. norma gene lands a one year contract with fox. the studio begins grooming her for stardom. she was what the studios called a product. someone they could take mold, shape, rename and create as something to be consumed by the movie going public. i said i don t think you can use norma gene doherty if you re going to be a star. to me you re a marilyn but we couldn t find her second name. she said could i use my grandmother s name? i said what s that?
voter suppression. i hope senator manchin and senator sinema understand the seriousness of this. on or before mlk day, that s within two weeks, and the connection is deliberate. i think chuck is going to put the bill on the floor, and he s going to put extreme pressure on joe and kirsten. schumer, by going public that way, was supposed to invoke today s holiday to put that, s. they could take this hard vote on a day when more people and their own democratic constituents might notice. that was the political threat. and yet here we are. there is no vote today with schumer backing off and signaling debate starting tomorrow on these voting rights bills and arguing that a vote today turned out to be too
institutionalized. her mother had paranoid s schizophrenia and the idea of someone being in an asylum is not talked about. marilyn is sent to the los angeles orphan home. they had to drag me and i cried screaming i m not an orphan and asked where my mother was but they said well, it s better you forget about her. she s dead. but there is one place where the young marilyn feels happy and safe. movie going absolutely surged her in the great depression. going is sort of an escape and you can get a lot for a dime or a nickel. i watched all kinds of movies like colle cleopatra and i ve it over and over and over again. she would just sort of lose
and you decide how you re going to deal with it. skank is on the board at 20th century fox but instead of pulling strings with darrell zannick to get marilyn her job back, he puts in a word with another pal. the boss of a rival studio. harry cologne who was the head of colombia pictures introduced understood and manipulated star making process. he offers marilyn a six-month contract but insists on big changes before he ll cast her in a movie. i think the platinum blonde was inspired by gene harlow. it was the ultimate hollywood look, the ultimate star image. it s almost unearthing. almost like an angel with
is summoned to a meeting with the head of colombia pictures. harry cohen. it was just a b movie, it was a movie and she had the main role and so i think she probably thought it was going to be her big break. but renewal of her contract comes at a price. harry invited her onto his yacht and that s not a code anybody today even requires any help deciphering. he was a major womanizer, oh my goodness, par excellence. he often exploited young women and if they didn t return his affections, then he would make their lives hell. she knew that if she said no to him that she would be thrown out but she had integrity. she just asked him will your wife join us?