She is the daughter of a severe schizophrenic Person Gladys M. Pearl S. Baker's illegitimate daughter. Gladys cut films for MGM, Paramount, and Columbia, and was frequently in and out of psychiatric hospitals throughout her life. Her mental illness also afflicted her parents and brother, so much so that his brother eventually committed suicide. In 1926, she was named after the then silent film star Norma Lee. Tarmech's name gave the child who shouldn't have been born. Years later, the little baby grew to adulthood. The director of 20th Century Fox Film changed her name to Marilyn Fox Film. Monroe. Before she became famous, Monroe tried to call her biological father. Father's secretary said, "He doesn't want to see you." If you have any questions, you can go to Los Angeles and meet his lawyer. ”
She hung up the phone without a sound. If a little girl had reason to complain about her childhood, she would have done that. She had been adopted by 12 families, each with its own vulgar behavior. In one of her homes, her toy was an empty whiskey bottle. Two other families were fanatical religious, and one of them taught her to sing "Jesus Loves Me" as punishment. If she had impure thoughts, she would be whipped with a belt with a sharpener; when she took off her clothes and compared her body to that of a little boy, she was called a slut. She liked a puppy, but the neighbor killed it. When her grandmother visited her, she wanted to suffocate her with a pillow. She spent 21 months in an orphanage and married an older man at the age of 16. She didn't love him, so she escaped from that miserable life of imprisonment. As if she had changed into a person, she began to stutter and suffer from chronic insomnia. She became a desperate woman, greedily wanting to be admired.
In a Murphy bed, her first husband taught her soul-destroying sex. She loves the feeling and has spent her whole life pursuing sex. But this did not satisfy her, and she longed to be worshipped by all men. As a child, she would spend Saturday afternoons at the Grauman Egyptian Theatre and see Betty Lee. Davis starred in "Red Shirt Tear Stains" and Nauma Lee Sheila starred in "The Absolute Queen", she dreamed that she could also appear on the big screen. Outside, she finds ways to follow Clara Bao, Ni Gayno and Gloria Swanson's footsteps. When Jerk asked her to play a role in a film about women in the field, she was notified of her first audition. She went into the room, sat down, and lit a cigarette. The first man to see the sample said, "I gave a chill. There is a quality in this girl that is not found in silent movies. She was the first woman in this film era to look like a star. Every action in the audition exudes sensuality. ”
Stills from Comet Beauty
Later, the director of "Passion like Fire" Billy Wilder called her "a carnal shock" and said the only star with that impact was Clara Lee. Bao, Jane Harlow and Rita Hayworth. Audiences see Monroe for the first time in the Marx brothers' comedy film Happy Love. In the film, she walks into Groucho's private detective agency with trepidation, gasping, "There are a few men following me." "Suddenly, everyone became extremely interested in her. After the release of the two films "The Night Is Not Quiet" and "Comet Beauty", she became famous in one fell swoop. The Lloyds Insurance Association in London also reinsuranced her provocative gait.
It was what she deserved. Between 1950 and 1961, 23 of her films were released and grossed a total of $200 million. At that time, only Brigitte of France Bardot was able to match her. Monroe receives an average of 5,000 letters a week, many of which are courtship letters. In Turkey, a crazy admirer committed suicide by cutting her wrist because of her refusal. The Soviet newspaper Pravda and the Vatican's Rome Observer saw her as representing a sinful society. Nunary M. Johnson called her "as natural as Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon." Life magazine said she was "the full-breasted Bernal" whose sexy three-dimensional (37.5–23–36 inches) was familiar to thousands of men who didn't even know their wives' three-dimensional circumference. More often than not, her immense appeal stems from her charming voice, fiery passion, light blond hair, slightly open, moist lips, dreamy blue eyes, and seductive steps.
She was more elusive than that, more full of red dust desire. Her desire to be adored was so strong that she even had sex in front of the camera. Because of this, her sexual desire stimulates the sexual desire of the audience, even female audiences. There was nothing wrong with that, she didn't tease others. She was ready, even eager to give up everything she had. When she was 14 years old, her friends' fathers were already working on her. One summer, an off-duty cop broke the screen door and tried to get close to her. She never pretended to be frightened, or even disgusted.
She became the mistress of a theater manager. The manager was losing weight, and doctors told him that his heart was weak and he had to avoid strenuous exercise. But Monroe's desires grew day by day until his body collapsed. Monroe died while on vacation with him in Palm Springs. After she married DiMaggio, once her husband went out, she put on soft leather flat shoes and wandered the streets of San Francisco, looking for a sexual partner. She worked with Yves Mondang co-starred in Let's Fall in Love, in which she played the role of Arthur M. Mrs. Miller seduces Montan inside, and Miller learns of it.
Marilyn Monroe and three husbands
She rejoiced at her own lasciviousness. As a rising star, she takes nude photos for a calendar. She didn't need that $50 pay, she just liked it. (A female reporter from Entertainment Weekly asked her, "Are you saying you're not wearing anything?") Monroe said, "I'm wearing it, I have a photographic lens." She got a transparent negative from the photographer with a picture of her pubic hair. She gave the negatives to DiMaggio as a wedding gift. She calls DiMaggio "Macho", but he is more conservative in his sexuality. During the filming of The Seven Year Itch, she opened her legs on a sidewalk in New York, which greatly annoyed DiMaggio. A group of fans saw a gust of wind blowing across the hem of her skirt, exposing her hips and cheering. For her, it was one of the most exciting moments of her life.
For the last part of her life, she worked on taking nude photos for Playboy. She hopes that this group of photos will appear on the cover of women's magazines around the world at the same time, which is her long-cherished wish. She is looking forward to the release of X-rated films that teenagers are banned from watching as soon as possible. john k After Heston cut out several scenes of her naked breasts in "Ill-Dressed," she was furious and shouted, "Keep the audience off the tv." I love to do things that censors don't pass. What are we doing here, is it to endure all this and let the film pass censorship? Someday, they'll abandon censorship, and sadly, I may not see that moment. ”
She became a big star like Chaplin and Garbo and was awarded the "British Film Queen". This sense of accomplishment made her flutter. All three of her marriages ended in tragedy, and after two miscarriages, she lost her fertility. Hollywood has always portrayed her as a blonde vase character. She fled to the east to learn the performing arts from Strasberg. But two years later, she returned to California, still seeking the role she had before.
Stills from France from "Passion on Fire"
Released in January 1959, "Passion like Fire" was a great personal success, but under the dazzling aura, it was a dark side that people had never seen. She was alcoholic and dependent on sedatives. She was never punctual, and her colleagues gradually distanced themselves from her. Jake S Lemon and Tony Curtis, while starring as a happy pair of transvestites, spends all day on the set, waiting for her to appear. To wake her up at 6:30 a.m., the assistant had to use plenty of black coffee and a masseuse. When her assistant lifted her up, her thunderous body rolled back and forth. Sometimes the shooting didn't start until 4 p.m., sometimes it was even delayed until the next morning, and then the procedure of getting her up was repeated.
She couldn't remember her lines. In one scene, one of her lines is: "It's me, Shug." But it was such a simple line that she tried 47 times. She paid no attention to the inconvenience or expense caused to the crew, which could even add $1 million to a film's cost. Once, when the assistant director knocked on the door of her locker room and told her the other actors were ready, Monroe replied, "Get out."
Eventually, 20th Century Fox Films fired her. Because when filming "On the Verge of Collapse", she was only there for 5 days in 7 weeks. It was the summer of 1962, and at the age of 36 she seemed to have lost her passion for life. She told a reporter for Life magazine: "The end may be a relief. It's like I don't know what kind of track you're on, but when you get to the finish line, you'll sigh that you've done it! But if you don't reach the finish line, you have to start all over again. ”
Her last affair took place with a Washingtonian who was both a lawyer and a politician. She feared ruining his political career and feared conceiving his children. Later, he asked her to attend a dinner party with some friends and two prostitutes, and Monroe was furious. When she got home, she put a record of Sinatra on the record player, swallowed all the sodium tablets (sedative hypnotics) in the medicine cabinet, and died.
Her body (file number: 81128) has been kept at the Los Angeles morgue and has not been claimed. Later, DiMaggio came to claim her and held a funeral for her. Monroe had never thought about what her coffin would look like, but she must have thought about what would happen after her death. She made specific arrangements. At her request, Alan M. Snyder put on makeup for her, and Maggie Pulitcher makes clothes, Agnes Flanagan does hairstyles.
(This article is excerpted from "Glory and Dreams")