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.
could 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 and you say, 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. america is at war. jim enlists in the marines and is sent to the south pacific. across the country, men and women are being asked to serve. in war towns all over the united states women are called upon to leave their homes and take jobs. employers find that women can do many jobs as well as men. some jobs better. marilyn starts working in an aircraft factory outside of los angeles. there was a photographer who arrived to take pictures of the pretty girls. sort of morale-boosting shots. the story that marilyn told was that he came over to her and
these are my options, that looks like the best one. i ll take that one. marilyn doesn t have much time to get to he her husband. america is at war. jim enlists in the marines and is sent to the south pacific. across the country, men and women are being asked to serve. in war towns all over the united states, women are called upon to leave their homes and take jobs. employers find that women can do many jobs as well as men. some jobs better. marilyn starts working in an aircraft factory outside of los angeles. there was a photographer who arrived to take pictures of the pretty girls. sort of moral boosting shots. the story that marilyn told he came over to her and said where have you been hiding?
these are my options, that looks like the best one. i ll take that one. marilyn doesn t have much time to get to he her husband. jim enlists in the marines and sent to the south pacific. across the country, men and women are being asked to serve. in war towns all over the united states, women are called upon to leave their homes and take jobs. employers find that women can do many jobs as well as men. some jobs better. marilyn starts working in an aircraft factory outside of los angeles. there was a photographer who arrived to take pictures of the pretty girls. sort of moral boosting shots. the story that marilyn told he came over to her and said where have you been hiding? this is like a dream come