In 1940.
Wilson Atlantic Christian University.
Eva was in secretarial class when she suddenly got a phone call.
The person on the other end of the phone asked her, "Can you come to New York for an audition?" ”
She's a country.
My biggest dream before was to become a secretary. Sit in an office building and spend your life. It has nothing to do with "New York" and "audition".
But suddenly everything changed.
The reason was that she took a photo and put it in the window of a photo studio on Fifth Avenue in New York.
In the photo, her eyes are breathtaking.
In New York, beauty cannot be buried.
MGM soon spotted her.
This year, Eva was 18 years old.
She went.
The audition received some strange reviews:
"She can't sing, she can't act, she can't talk. However, she was great. ”
She didn't know where the stick was.
For the rest of his life, he didn't do what he thought.
Just follow the tide of fate, tossing and turning.
She signed with MGM, deviated from her original trajectory, and stepped into Hollywood.
As everyone knows, over the years, she will turn the world upside down and never look back.
When she first arrived at MGM, Eva was rejected.
The interviewer said, "We have to cut out her audition footage. ”
She was born in North Carolina and has a severe Southern accent. New Yorkers couldn't understand what she was saying.
Not only that, but the manners, expressions, and camera senses are all very bad.
MGM signed her up, just because of her face.
Every time the producer said, "I need a girl with a good body to be a human background." ”
They thought of Eva.
Other than that, Evacha had no such person.
She has appeared in more than 20 films, but her name has never been on the credits.
Until one day, she passed by a soundstage.
Inside was a skinny man wearing a frilled turban skirt, wedge-shaped high heels, and banana-shaped earrings.
She scoffed, thinking he looked like a dwarf dressed as a woman.
But the man said, "I want to date you." ”
This person is none other than Mickey Rooney.
He is a generation of child stars. There is a loud reputation, there is a strong box office appeal.
The staff advised her not to refuse, because then she had news and exposure.
Her sister also advised: "He's not very handsome, but he can help you." ”
Eva had been hesitant.
However, when Mitchie proposed for the 28th time, Eva agreed. She needs this step.
On the wedding night, Mickey was happy.
Because before that, Eva had refused to be intimate with him.
The day after she was stripped of her virginity, he left Eva behind and ran out to play golf.
Miki has been immersed in the show business since childhood, and has been contaminated with various vices in the circle.
In the married life after that, he cheated, drank heavily, did not return at night, and lied.
Eva gradually became exhausted.
She said: "He's too ghostly, there's no trick he doesn't know. ”
It wasn't at all what she had imagined as married.
She protested.
Cut the furniture with a knife.
Cut the curtains with scissors.
And, accept the overtures of other men.
Mickey couldn't sit still.
He wants to repair the relationship and offers to have a baby with Eva.
But Eva said, "If you make me pregnant, I'll kill you." ”
She also went to the company's top brass and told her that she wanted a divorce, and if Mickey didn't agree, she would make everything public to the media.
The company had no choice but to come forward to persuade Mickey.
After 16 months of marriage, Eva finally got her wish and ended her first marriage.
Mickey wasn't Eva's favorite man.
But he did change her.
As she wrote in her autobiography: "From then on, love, which had no way to resist and could not judge right from wrong, became her terrible hobby." ”
Divorce breaks Eva's cognitive system.
In the face of everything strange, she remains tough and tense at all times.
She used high pressure to force herself to become a qualified actress.
Learn from your language teacher and change your accent.
Practice walking with books overhead and correct your manners.
Practice expressions in front of the mirror and cultivate your own sense of lens.
But none of this stems from the love of acting.
It was that she hated poverty and inferiority.
The label of "country girl" made her suffer from white eyes.
At work, she uses many means to wash off labels and get rid of inferiority. And she was gradually seen.
She became the heroine of several films. The limelight is no different.
At work, she got rid of humility.
But in the relationship, she was helpless.
In 1944, a man appeared, at a party.
He was the musical talent Artie Shaw.
When Eva was still in her hometown, she danced for him.
She couldn't believe that this legendary talent was right in front of her eyes.
Artie was arrogant but charming.
She boldly invited him for a drink.
Arti has been a long time in the flowers and has always been dismissive of women's initiative. He said: "I should have said no, or I would have gone crazy." “
But he was really crazy.
At this time, Eva has experienced a marriage, and her temperament is transforming.
Her wild charm and maturity are being amplified.
For beauty, Yati's eyes are poisonous.
He admitted that he was in love with her body.
They were like glue and fire, and soon they entered into marriage.
But even sooner, he discovered Eva's boredom.
Her head was empty.
I have only read two books, Gone with the Wind and the Bible.
And he was an intellectual.
Every time she talks to her friends, Eva is always speechless.
He looked down on her more and more.
Once, he was taking a friend home, and Eva happened to be walking around the house barefoot.
He suddenly lost face.
He scolded her: "This is so uncivilized, do you still think you are in the cotton fields of the countryside!" ”
Eva cried bitterly and ran away in disguise.
In order to please Artie, she made various efforts.
Enroll in the University of California.
Read literary masterpieces that she didn't like to read.
She also went to take an IQ test. The results were measured at 120 points, which seemed mediocre to him.
She had done so much that it was useless.
In front of him, she could only be a vulgar countryman forever.
Her inferiority was nowhere to be hidden.
You can only defend yourself again with toughness.
Once, she met Yati's ex-wife.
The ex-wife said: "Being with Arti is like getting a college education. ”
Eva responded, "Yes." However, I was about to drop out of school before I was expelled from college. ”
It didn't take long for people to know that Eva was single again.
She also had a new realization.
She said: "I finally realized that I was a free woman. ”
Since then, she has been in a kaleidoscope of flowers, and the leaves have not touched her body.
She saw this as a woman's liberation and flaunted herself at the forefront of the times.
And this, too, is changing her career in the dark.
Fast forward to 1946.
Eva was unpopular at MGM and was sent to make a Universal Films film.
At the time, Universal was preparing for Hemingway's Killer.
The heroine is a sexy, lazy, uninhibited persona.
Isn't that Eva herself?
She doesn't need to act, just go to that station, it's enough to convince people.
Sure enough, she was a huge success with "The Killer" and wowed the whole of Hollywood.
Since then, she has gradually replaced joan Crawford, the most popular at the time, as a new generation of sexy goddesses.
In Eva's view, this is a hint.
She seems to have found the right path —
Being a prodigal girl, not only does not have to work hard, but also can get ahead.
She sank completely.
She took the Spanish matador as her lover.
I had a relationship with my roommate who was also an actor.
She seduces Elizabeth Taylor's husband, Richard.
She swims naked in Hemingway's manor, fascinates Hemingway. Hemingway instructed his servants never to change the water in the pool.
Most famously, she was entangled with Howard Hughes.
Howard was hollywood's richest tycoon.
Actresses who slept almost all over Hollywood. Always appears in all kinds of gossip.
Eva said, "I've never loved Howard. ”
But she accepted everything he had given.
She boarded his private jet, and on a whim, flew to Mexico to play.
She let him pack the whole restaurant and eat a dinner that was just the two of them.
She watched as he held a plate of gems in her hand in front of her, as she pleased.
She asked him to introduce her to the best film contracts and help her rise step by step.
Of course, everything is not so satisfactory.
Howard was jealous and paranoid.
He gives the car to the house, and also arranges a private detective.
Not only that, he would also install a bugging device on Eva's body.
This is an excessive demand for the prodigal daughter Eva.
Once, Howard overheard a man's voice.
Rush into Eva's house right away.
He slapped her, causing her cheekbone to fracture. Totally like a lunatic.
In a panic, Eva found a bronze bell, big and heavy.
She didn't know where the brute force came from, and she lifted it up and smashed it into his face.
Howard fell to the ground in response.
They were both dumbfounded.
Eva thought she was going to finish.
This most powerful man was going to ban her from now on.
But Howard did not blame her, but continued to pursue her mercilessly.
Howard's love is undoubtedly morbid.
Eva is deeply involved in it and falls in love with him and kills him.
Anyway, she had long been used to solving problems with brute force.
Brute force is her magic weapon.
You can hide your inferiority or break free of the cage.
However, when true love comes, brute force will also push it away.
It wasn't until two years later, when Howard got bored, that Eva was finally able to devote herself to her next marriage.
The man's name was Frank.
Before Jackson came out, the music scene was completely Frank's domain.
How red is he?
When the young girl watched his concert, she would be so excited that she fainted.
It's just that he's not handsome enough.
He looked like a jerk who was nicknamed "Skinny Monkey".
Eva said: "He's vulgar, I can't stand him. He's arrogant, and I hate arrogant men. ”
But they have some common traits.
One night they were in Las Vegas, drunk.
They drove a sports car past a shop.
Frank stopped abruptly, pointed at the shop window, and pulled out a pistol.
Eva realized he was going to smash the window.
She didn't stop it.
Her first instinct was to scream for pleasure.
He shot.
They were taken away by the police. The next day, the newspaper headlines were all about their scandal.
Eva was happy.
She found a companion. A violent, crazy, vulgar, unruly person like her.
She said: "Frank was the love of my life. ”
However, he was already a husband with a wife and three children.
But Eva was fierce.
She threatened Frank: "If you don't leave your wife, I'll go!" ”
For this sentence, Frank fought a three-year lawsuit.
On November 7, 1951, the third day after his divorce, he quickly married Eva.
In their careers, Eva and Frank support each other.
With Eva's help, Frank won the 1953 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Eva herself was nominated for Best Actress for "Red Dust".
But outside of her career, she still faces old problems.
Their marriage was full of destruction.
Once, they quarreled, and Frank immediately swallowed an entire bottle of sleeping pills.
Another time, he heard that Eva was having dinner with her ex-husband and frantically called her and said, "Goodbye forever." ”
Eva heard two gunshots on the phone and was so frightened that she immediately went home.
She threw the diamond ring he had given him to his face, and he immediately threw away the bracelet that her ex-husband had given her.
He always threatened her with all kinds of means.
They were dubbed by the media as "violent couples."
In the most violent of the troubles, Eva became pregnant and ran to London alone to have an abortion.
She knew frank had always wanted to have a daughter.
She was going to him off in this way.
When Frank arrived, Eva lay weakly in her hospital bed, speechless.
Years later, she recalled, saying, "I'll never forget waking up after surgery with Frank sitting on the edge of the bed in tears. But I still think I'm right. ”
Brute force against brute force, never ending.
Frank said: "We are too similar, I can't live without her, and I can't live without her!" ”
In 1957, they finally ended their torture of each other.
At this time, Eva was 35 years old. Bruised by violent marriages.
In her career, she has also been hindered many times.
The combination of her and Frank has already borne the name of Xiao San.
Now it is spurned by the world and has fallen into the well.
Her reputation is not good.
As Shao Hua faded away, job opportunities also decreased.
She didn't think about broadening the path of the play. In addition to being sexy, it is still sexy.
However, no one can be a sexy thing forever.
In the years of rapids, she did not try her best, but fell into the whirlpool of love.
To be replaced is predestined.
Cardiff, the photographer who worked with Eva at the time, saw the fatigue between her eyebrows.
Even with his superb shooting skills, he could not hide this fact.
He pointed out that she needed to rest and stay away from criticism.
Soon after, Eva retired to Europe.
It's still the same old way, mixed up with a bunch of prodigals.
Use love to drive away emptiness and loneliness.
She still said, "Being loved is the most important thing in life. ”
By the end of his life, fame and love were gone.
One day, she suddenly received an invitation.
A studio asked her to play a rich and lonely woman.
She said angrily, "I've been playing a lonely woman all my life!" ”
Lonely, hopeless, sad, with nothing,
It was a fact she did not want to accept, and it was also a fate that she could not escape.
She has been refusing interviews.
Refuse to be explored by others and get a glimpse into her loneliness.
But we know that before she died, she asked to be buried in her hometown.
That's where her soul belongs.
She has always been the "country girl" who has low self-esteem and stubbornness in her bones.
People always think that this will be a story of an ugly duckling turning into a swan and Cinderella becoming a princess.
Not really.
Throwing a blank piece of paper into a dyeing vat may not lead to a famous painting.
Among them, all kinds of process assistance is needed, wisdom, sobriety, self-confidence, self-motivation... Indispensable.
Beauty is the trump card only if you add these.
And beauty, coupled with chaos, inferiority, and violence, can only be regretted.
So everything became the two desolate summaries of her autobiography—
One is:
"I never really thought about being an actor, I never seriously considered my talent."
The second is:
"Love is nothing but pain."