that role. some like it hot remains one of her most famous performances. any one can play a dits, but to play one that you love, that, to me, takes a talent that cannot be taught of the and she had that? spades. don t love nobody there was no one else like her. and the moment you put her in front of the camera, it s like watching magic. runnin wild next, on the final episode of reframed marilyn monroe . she does not feel understood by her husband. in the middle of production, marilyn takes off. she had a date with the president who s having a big birthday party. and she was to sing happy
marilyn was, as her story always shows, pretty clearly someone who looks forward rather than back. in the summer of 1957, marilyn s only concern is her family. she embraced her marriage in a way that she d never done before. my father was shooting a lot during that period. those photographs of marilyn on the beach. very playful. she adored him. she discovers that she s pregnant. and she s ecstatic about it. she wanted to be a mom. i think she wanted to love a baby. i think she wanted to move forward with her life out of just being this poster girl and being a woman who chooses to be a mother, chooses a family. she loved children. i mean, the way she treated us,
miller. they were meeting because of shared people in new york. hanging out and having fun. he, of course, was married at the time, and marilyn knows how it would look for this major film star to be with a man who is still married. marilyn s least-favorite word home wrecker. she had a fear of being called a home wrecker. it will be over a year before marilyn s relationship with arthur miller becomes public knowledge. marilyn monroe was someone who was attracted to intelligence. so it makes sense that she would be attracted to one of the foremost american intellectuals
belonged with the serious artists, that she belonged where real art was being made. she wanted more control over her career. she wanted to be able to choose her own projects and her own directors and just play different roles. weeks after fleeing hollywood, a small crowd is invited to an upper east side apartment to meet the new marilyn monroe. lawyers were there. a lot of press was there. they re all waiting on tender hooks to find out what marilyn is going to say, what she s going to announce and if indeed this is some new marilyn. she wore high heels, and then the white norel dress, and the
like a failure. because in the 1950s, you were still considered to be not fully fulfilled unless you had a child. on the heels of her loss, marilyn faces another struggle. they needed money, so it s time for her to return to work. taking time out from a high-profile career remains risky today, and it was even riskier in the 50s. there was always the chance that her popularity was going to pass her by, that she would hit an expiration date. in march 1958, an intriguing new project lands on marilyn s desk. she absolutely knew a good script when she read one, and particularly a very funny script. she had a sense of what was going to be box office gold, and she knew that she could perform