magnificent. the female power that she s harnessed is phenomenal. she s arching her back, and her arm is up to create beautiful lines, beautiful angles. they look like 19th century nudes. she wasn t afraid of showing off her body, which was a great body. but it s easy to forget what a conservative country america was. nude modeling was not considered respectable. it could have ended her career. i said, are you sure they won t recognize me? he said, i promise. this is hollywood. it is a symbol for magic, entertainment, and make-believe. after love happy, marilyn thought she was on the brink of stardom. she s done it. she s there. but it doesn t happen. it s like marilyn is just another blonde girl. but one thing that all the great movie stars shared was determination. so of course she went back and tried again. a savvy 23-year-old marilyn is preparing for a photo shoot. marilyn was out of contract, and so she decided that she needed a strategy to ge
brave. it s bold. it s very modern. it was her taking ownership of her own body back, right? and it was her saying, this actually doesn t belong to you. it belongs to me. it was a genuinely risky move, and marilyn didn t know how it would play out. she was rolling the dice with her career in very real terms. she gave an honest, forthright response. and it was embraced by the public. once people learned more about her life, anything that might have been considered questionable was almost wiped clean. what are you going to do if she s not showing any shame? can t go, how dare you? marilyn s honesty pays off, and life magazine features her on the cover.
i ve done nothing wrong. mosby publishes their private conversation, and the news is picked up by every wire service in the country. everybody was waiting to hear what she was going to say when it was exposed. marilyn s decision to own her nude photo shoot calendar is brave. it s bold. it s very modern. it was her taking ownership of her own body back, right? and it was her saying, this actually doesn t belong to you. it belongs to me. it was a genuinely risky move, and marilyn didn t know how it would play out. she was rolling the dice with her career in very real terms. she gave an honest, forthright response.
marilyn is now a household name. and darryl zanuck casts her in her biggest role yet. niagara was a breakthrough role for marilyn. it was her first bona fide lead in an a-list film. in niagara they stressed her sexuality. i mean, that s what people went to the cinema to see. they wanted to see the low cut dresses, the parted lips and smoldering eyes. get out the fire hose. when she comes out of that shocking pink deal, it s like, this is a creature that is quite spectacular. when we see her today, that s marilyn monroe as we imagine her. the full sexuality.