Marilyn Monroe - a name known throughout the world. What is wonderful about this actress?
Marilyn Monroe, whose biography, filmography, childhood, whose professional and personal life has long been studied, is hardly of great interest to fans who deeply analyze the identities of famous people. Nevertheless, interest in it has not faded away for several decades. It is amazing. She was neither particularly beautiful, nor talented, nor very rich. Even an affair with the Kennedy brothers, actress biographers questioned. And yet it is about her more than about anyone else that they make films and compose songs. In our article, we recall the charming Norma Jeane, or, as she used to call her, Marilyn Monroe. Filmography, marriages, rumors and some episodes from her life may be of interest to those who consider themselves to be a fan of this sweet, gentle, but, unfortunately, unhappy woman.
Ridiculous rumors
Charming blonde in childhood was red. They say that after only 36 years, she managed to undergo several plastic surgeries for herself - she changed the shape of her nose and chin. Her amazing gait, which Darling-Marilyn demonstrated in the film "Only Jazz in Jazz," is explained by the six-fingered feet. Rumors about her are one more absurd than the other, but the truth is so simple that she unwittingly wants to embellish. You can get an idea of the personality of a star by reading interviews and memoirs of actors, directors, writers or musicians with whom fate was brought together by Marilyn Monroe. The filmography of the actress includes thirty-five paintings. And this is just fifteen years of cinematic career. Not all of her roles are known to the Russian audience. Only the best films of Marilyn Monroe have been translated. A complete filmography is in numerous books about her. However, are there any masterpieces among them? Unfortunately no. The story of the actress herself is much more interesting than films.
The true story of Cinderella
You can say about Marilyn Monroe's life that this is the real, real story of Cinderella, as it could be. Only a fictional, fabulous mess from a poor family, almost an orphan, can organically fit into the company of the king and his retinue. In real life, everything is much more complicated. It is no accident that by the end of her life, the actress began to often suffer from depression - the need to maintain the image of a successful movie star, divorce from her husband, an unsuccessful pregnancy and the inability to have children, and at the same time, a complete lack of preparation for such a life in her childhood.
Selfish or generous? Opinion of the famous Ella Fitzgerald
It is believed that Monroe was very self-serving. However, the famous jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald did not think so. For the rise of her own career, she thanks Marilyn Monroe. In the fifties of the last century, when Monroe was already famous and reporters fought to take photos of the star, the “voiceless little girl”, as Marilyn said about herself in the film “Only Jazz in Jazz,” persuaded the owner of the fashionable night club “Mokambo” to take to work the black Fitzgerald. This was at a time when many doors were closed to African Americans in the United States. Marilyn promised the owner that every evening she would occupy a table by the stage, and the reporters, filming it, would make an excellent advertisement for the establishment. And so it happened. After Mokambo, Ella Fitzgerald never again sang in second-rate restaurants. And where did the rumors about the love of money of Marilyn Monroe come from? The filmography of the actress gives an answer to this question - in the tape "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", she sings the song "Diamonds are the best friends of girls."
Main Role
Most Monroe heroines are stupid blondes who are unaware of this quality and consider themselves quite practical persons. They are very feminine, gentle and kind-hearted, in addition, they are always modest - they do not grab stars from the sky, however, from film to film they try to secure a comfortable life due to a profitable marriage with a rich man. Stories usually end with the same thing - the heroine Monroe falls in love, and the Napoleonic plans are carelessly rejected.
Films in which Marilyn Monroe is involved (the filmography of the actress is evidence of this) can hardly be called masterpieces of cinema. Her most famous roles are Rosa Lumis in Niagara, Darling Dana Kowalski in Jazz Only Girls, Peggy Martins in Chorus, Annabelle Jones Norris in We Are Not Married, Laurel Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the girl in Seventh Year Itch and Roslyn Taber in The Misfits.
Marriage with Arthur Miller
The filmography of Marilyn Monroe, whose main roles were mostly comedic, is a remarkable dramatic character in the film based on the script of her husband, writer Arthur Miller. It was her penultimate work in the cinema. The last film with the symbolic title “Something must happen” was never finished.
About four and a half years, Miller and Monroe lived together. What can be said about their relationship, if a week after the wedding, the young husband wrote that his wife reminds him of a small child, and then attributed: “I hate her!”?
Marriage with Joe Di Maggio
Under Marilyn Monroe do makeup and hairstyles, and the famous dress from the movie "Itching of the Seventh Year" for sixty years does not go out of style. Filming in this film cost her marriage to baseball player Joe Di Maggio. They were married for only a few months - in January 1954 they got married, and broke up in October of the same year. Joe was very jealous of her, even beaten several times, but the spectacle of the wife’s pantalon, put on display to the whole world in the presence of almost five thousand more witnesses, served as a drop that overflowed the cup of patience. Within a month they divorced.
Of all the men, only Joe truly loved Marilyn. He is the only one who came to her funeral, and then, until the end of his life, made sure that fresh flowers always stood near the urn with her ashes.