on your lunch hour. and she said yes, of course i do. the association of bombs and bombshells was literal. what is a bombshell? it s a hollow ball in which gunpowder is scored to explode. this was explosive. this was explosive sexuality. marilyn now has a calling card and a new ambition. the rambling ambassador hotel, one of the world s great hostelries and a los angeles landmark of good living. at the iconic ambassador hotel, 19-year-old marilyn tries her luck with the blue book modeling agency. norma jean looked like the girl next door. she was beautiful, a clean-cut,
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 off. i think natasha bringing with her a wealth of knowledge about theater was very enticing to marilyn. she wanted to get this kind of serious education about acting, about theater, and natasha was able to do that for her. she really saw something special in her as an actress.
here you see the world s largest motion picture studio, with its acres of sound stages spread out under the bright california sun. now let s enter the gate. by the end of 1946, marilyn is four months into a contract with 20th century fox. in just a year, she s gone from young model to aspiring starlet. but if she s going to break out, she will need to impress studio head darryl zanuck. in many ways, darryl zanuck is almost cliche of an old-school movie mogul. he s short. he s aggressive.
immediately taken with her. so he takes her on a trip all around the southwest. they went into the desert, they went to old cowboy towns, they took hundreds and hundreds of photographs. she was working with a photographer to learn how to inject energy into pictures. not that she was saying how to make me look pretty but how do we make a good picture. marilyn, oh, my god, she was a pro at it. some of marilyn s best work was when she was just alone with a photographer she trusted and just let herself be free. there s a bit of a love affair that goes on between model and photographer. and you get the idea she was really wanting to give it, really wanting to turn you on, make you proud.
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