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
girl? in walked the most gorgeous young girl, 20 years old. what s your ambition, to be a film star. they had a color test, which was unusual, i think they had high hopes for me. she was to walk across the room, sit down and light a cigarette. and smile. as soon as the camera started rolling, something magical happened. she has this fresh-faced beauty, this luminous prettiness on the screen. she could manifest the kind of magic, she came into the world with it. ben lyon was very enthusiastic. said i looked so fresh and young. they said that i had a three dimensional quality having to do with sex. norma jean doherty lands a one-year contract with fox, the
she could manifest the kind of magic. she came into the world with it. ben lyon was very enthusiastic, said i looked so fresh and young. they said that i had a three-dimensional quality having to do with sex. norma jean doherty lands a one-year contract with fox. the studio begins grooming her for stardom. she was what the studios called a product. someone that 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 the name norma jean doherty if you re going to be a star. to me you re a marilyn. but we couldn t find a second