after you get what you want, you don t want it. that s a perfect number, because that s really her story, too. because after you get what you want you don t want what you she had the money and the lights and the costumes and the fans. i know you but there was something missing. she doesn t want to be stuck at fox making stereotype movies. i could have sworn you re a dramatic actress. that s impossible. what i d like to do is to be a good actress. when you want that, you re not necessarily going to find it in hollywood. there s no business like show business opens to great fanfare, but marilyn is nowhere to be seen. marilyn monroe didn t show up for her own movie premiere. her mind and her life were somewhere else. she was incognito. as zelda zonk. zelda zonk was a beautiful woman in a black, bobbed wig sneaking away from l.a. to start a new life in new york. she didn t tell anybody, and nobody knew. marilyn walked out as a declaration
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
but it was also weaponized against her. in 1942, marilyn s life changes overnight. when marilyn was just past her 16th birthday she got married to a neighbor named jim dougherty who she barely knew. it was the idea of heea of hr mother, grace. grace arranged it, she and her husband were going to west virginia and they were going to put me in a home or i can marry this boy who is 21. she was a pragmatist. she had lived a difficult life, and that makes you a pragmatist. you look in front of you, these are my options, that looks like the best one, i ll take that one. marilyn doesn t have much time to get to know her new husband. the die is cast, america is at war. jim enlists in the marines and is sent to the south pacific.
marilyn doesn t slow down. she s on to the next project. she still had dreams of her own production company, so marilyn and milton settled on purchasing the rights to a play that was being performed by lawrence olivier in england. she loved the idea of working with lawrence olivier. he brought with him a level of gravitas, and i think by him agreeing to be in a movie with her, it showed that she was being taken seriously as an actress. marilyn s new adventure puts as recently divorced arthur miller in the spotlight. marilyn is going to england to film the prince and the show girl, arthur miller wants to accompany her, be with her, and applies for a passport and runs against a wall. are you a member of the communist party or have you ever been a member of the communist party? arthur miller was subpoenaed by the u.s. government to appear
there s a real kind of aching loneliness at the center of her performance in the middle of this love story. the moment the film is running in the camera, marilyn acts. i think she is one of the most extraordinary actresses that ever lived. a lot of people said that she really deserved an academy award nomination for that role. she was awfully good in bus stop. awfully good. marilyn doesn t slow down. she s on to the next project. she still had dreams of her own production company, so marilyn and milton settled on purchasing the rights to a play that was being performed by lawrence olivier in england. she loved the idea of working