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
a really pivotal moment for her. the choice of red book was a really symbolic one. it was geared at women and hadden about running some serious journalism. this was the exact opposite of all of the posed, heavily-made-up photos where she s looking right into the camera saying i m here to seduce you. she was really questioning not just i think herself but how to show herself differently. marilyn was trying to position herself as a kind of every woman. it has that vulnerable, every day kind of girl look, working girl m in the subway, with her cameraman. in fact, marilyn never really did ride the subway, but the important thing is she saw herself as a woman who rode the subway. marilyn applies this new realism to her acting.