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?
make everyone s jaw drop. is there anything i can do for you? what a ridiculous statement. mr. grunyan i want you to help me i have a little sand left. what seems to be the trouble? some men are following me. really? i can t understand why. she was a product of the times. you couldn t show sex in any of its sort of natural form. i advise you to leave. i ll take you down to the bus station. if i m not back tonight go ahead without me. so you got it in this exaggerated, unnatural form. that s been the history of all my romances. she was letting the world know she carried this aura of sexuality and everybody got it and went, wow. who s that? eager to capitalize on marilyn s scene stealing potential, the producers send her on a publicity tour to promote the film. this was to happen during the summer on the east coast but
creation of marilyn monroe is that i think she had more of a hand in it than people want to give her credit for. the truth about marilyn s background is something she s happy to bury. marilyn isn t an orphan. she s got a mother who is living in a mental health facility but that doesn t necessarily read as well as an innocent orphan girl. childhood was very difficult on marilyn. she was illegitimate and that was a terrible, terrible sin in the 1930s. she didn t know who her father was and her mother had a horrible condition. her mother gladys is institutionalized when marilyn was 8 years old. the diagnosis given to her
she was an artist. she was a poet. a businesswoman. what a power broker she was renegotiating her contract, creating her own production company, getting films made. it s rather frustrating that people can t think about her in terms of her intellect. i can be smart when it s important but most men don t like it. marilyn challenges what it means to have agency as a bomb and what it means to be a feminist. marilyn, what is a woman? in the end is the way our culture talks about marilyn monroe and thinks about marilyn monroe is what it thinks about women. this is hollywood, a place,