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
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.
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. now that she looks the part, marilyn will make sure that she can play it. most of the stories that are told about marilyn s career, particularly in the early years, are about the role that powerful men played in her story p. but there were a couple of important women in her life as well. she was introduced to natasha lytess, the head of drama at columbia pictures. and they just instantly hit it
pressuring people to meet an ideal in some cases 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. now that she looks the part, marilyn will make sure that she can play it. most of the stories that are told about her career are about the role powerful men played in her story but there were a couple important women in her life, as well. she was introduced to natasha the head of drama at colombia pictures and they just instantly hit it off.
ideal in some cases 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. now that she looks the part, marilyn will make sure that she can play it. most of the stories that will t are told about her career are about the role powerful men played in her story but there were a couple important women in her life, as well. she was introduced to natasha the head of drama at colombia pictures and they just instantly hit it off. i think natasha with her wealth