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"From a child spending stints in foster care while her schizophrenic mother was institutionalised, to a pin-up girl gawked at by millions, to a star whose films had grossed the contemporary equivalent of $2 billion in just over a decade.
This explosive trajectory could not have come without a cost. Her bubbly screen persona was noted by many as simply that, a persona..." -taken from article on epigram.org.uk
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"That's why she overmedicated herself," Sarandon said of the star. "She always lived with this fear that she would lose her mind like her mother...." - Actress Susan Sarandon.
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"The camera loves Monroe because the camera, a piece of technology far removed from nature, ironically hates artificiality. It adores pure animal-like unselfconsciousness. If, as someone once said, all art aspires to the condition of music, then all acting aspires to the condition of pure physicality. The camera found in Monroe the natural release it needed..." - taken from an article on theguardian.com
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"According to The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, the movie star last saw her mother in the summer of 1962. Attempting to get a new doctor to prescribe her Thorazine, Monroe took the doctor to Rock Haven, only to learn that Baker was refusing to take her own Thorazine.
Mother and daughter then had one more face-off in the yard, with Monroe pleading for her to take her medication and Baker insisting that prayers, not medicine, was all she needed. When Baker stood up to depart, Monroe stopped her and slipped a flask into her purse, drawing a smile from the older woman. "You're such a good girl, Norma Jeane," she said, before leaving without a goodbye." - taken from article on biography.com
I think she looks a lot like her mother here.
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"The story was embellished over time and through many retellings, even by Marilyn herself; one version claims that Miller's personal notes referred to his new bride as a "whore." Whatever the exact nature of Miller's jottings, some of Marilyn's closest friends, including the Strasbergs, maintained that her discovery was a heartbreaking one that signaled the beginning of the end of her marriage. Miller himself has always denied that this episode had any dire effect on the relationship..." - in reference to her husband, Arthur Miller. Taken from article on howstuffworks.com
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"‘For women," she commented, "Monroe embodies kinds of fear that were just as basic as the hope she offered men: the fear of a sexual competitor who could take away men on whom women’s identities and even livelihoods might depend; the fear of having to meet her impossible standard of always giving – and asking nothing in return; the nagging fear that we might share her feminine fate of being vulnerable, unserious, constantly in danger of becoming a victim..." - Gloria Steinem.
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Who do you think knew MM the best? Who in her life truly saw her, if anyone?
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""I'll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that.
So as we we're walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says 'Do you want to see me become her?' I didn't know what she meant but I just said 'Yes'- and then I saw it.
I don't know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her...." - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn's personal photographer Milton Greene
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