tragic. that simply wasn t true. can we start again? she had an agency, she was hungry for more creative chall challenges. she had a lot of strength with her vulnerability. she stood up to the old hollywood guard and said i m mad as hell and won t take it anymore. up until the day she died, she was a fighter. of course her early death is a tragedy but that doesn t over right everything she achieved up until that point. she became the biggest movie store in the world. and she is one of the famous and most recognizable women in history. excited fans gather on a san diego beach to watch marilyn monroe shoot her first film in two years. arguably her greatest role. it s incredible what she does in that. on paper, the role of sugarcane is very much a type of a dumb blonde. i can t believe this musical family. my mother is a piano teacher and my father a conductor. this woman is so dumb she doesn t even realize her two best friends are men in drag. what
people into the movie theaters was to produce these huge, big- budget epics, with incredible costumes, and so much luxury that you had to see it on the biggest screen possible. and by that time something s got to give is being made, they are working on their biggest productions ever, which was cleopatra . marilyn and elizabeth taylor has been set up as rivals, elizabeth taylor was getting paid 10 times what marilyn munro was getting paid. it is absolutely disastrous shoot. elizabeth taylor is sick, they have to tear down expensive sets and rebuild them. hello, miss taylor, how are you? i feel a little bit week, thank you. as a result, they had to shut down all reductions except cleopatra and something s got to give , and the financial well-being of the studio was effectively on marilyn s shoulders. are you going to stay long?
it has been over an year since marilyn wrapped her last film, when fox calls her back to set. contractually, marilyn munro owed fox a movie, so she signed up to be the lead in a comedy called something s got to give . this is her first mature role, and marilyn is playing someone who has responsibility for someone else. she is a mother. come here. why? i want to hug you. me too! in something s got to give i think you do see a maternal aspect, which is completely unexpected. it naturally brings a certain softness. you can t help but wonder what could have been. and i m sure i m not the only one to have thought that whilst watching those scenes. i start like
through the image. all of the pieces that she s cutting are going on the floor of the car, and i m grabbing them and putting them back. and then i m looking over and i m saying, you know, she s pretty good at editing. but that is how marilyn monroe edited my color pictures. so you might see some transparencies that survived, marilyn monroe looking at a t bird, at a spotlight. i was afraid you would misunderstand about that. what is to misunderstand? on the set of something s got to give marilyn s relationship with the studio goes from bad to worse. can we start again? they say that she is uncooperative, and caused costly delays, and tried to dismiss her as temperamental star, who overplayed her hand. all you can think about is the way i behaved with this poor little okay.
i don t know yet. would you like me to? but in the middle of production on something s got to give , marilyn takes off to new york. she had a date with the president. he was having a big birthday party at madison square garden. the president is winding up his new york day, here at madison square garden, in a sort of pre-birthday celebration. a lot of very famous performers were singing, and dancing. she asks permission from the studio to go off, but because of the production delays, the studio said she could not go. she was furious, because in her view a star of her stature at the right to say that she was going to go to this for a couple of days, they were just going to have to deal with it. marilyn has spent weeks rehearsing for the event.