Marilyn Monroe

She was the "It" girl back in the day. I wasn't until years after she died so I don't know what she was really like. What was she like?

• She was a slut!

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• She fucked Brando and sucked a lot of cock to get ahead. She was the biggest whore in Hollywood in her day. Not even Grace "The Homewrecker" Kelly could hold a candle to her sluttiness.Grace was supposedly gifted in the oral arts as well.

• I read that she even banged Milton 'foot-long' Berle. Yuck

  Pipi

• A dirty, dirty whore

• CUNT!

• Is OP the same helpless idiot who made a thread to ask why GWB was elected President? Why oh why won't someone teach him how to google, (and how to write)?

• Yes, r6.

• Often tipsy

• She had real mental issues. She had several breakdowns, coulnd't sustain relationships because nobody could put up with her pathological neediness, and was incredibly umprofessional on the set - being hours late for day after day, or never showing up at all. She may have been bipolar, and/or borderline. One can have both.

• She was very, very damaged from a childhood that included being raped and sexually abused. Her mother was schizophrenic and spent most of her time in a locked ward in a mental hospital. She was highly intelligent and talented, but fell into prescription drug abuse and alcoholism to cope with her loneliness and inability to emotionally connect. She later developed severe stage fright and paranoid delusions.

• Only fraus seem to like her. Gay men have better taste in Old Hollywood whores.

• She's a lot better of an actress than most give her credit for.

• I agree R6- next post is going to be "who is Abraham Lincoln and why was he important- I was not alive when he lived..."

• [quote]She's a lot better of an actress than most give her credit for. No, she's pretty bad and consistently so.

• Did you watch The Misfits or Niagra?

• I've seen "The Misfits", I've never seen "Niagara". She was okay in the former and suited to the role. Although a different actress could've been just as good probably better. Janet Leigh perhaps? In all of what I've seen of her she seems to be playing the same character and I find her soft voice annoying.

• Marilyn should have moved to Mexico. She would have lived into old age and been happy. Marilyn loved Mexico and Mexican people. She donated a lot of money to poor Mexicans that no one knew about. She didn't talk about it, because she thought herself a Jew and an observant Jew is required to donate anonymously. Hispanics treated her well--they saw her as a whole human being, not as a piece of meat, unlike the white men she had to put up with.

• R17 She was a Jew because she married Arthur Miller?! Unh? That makes her Italian/Catholic because she was married to joe Di Maggio. Marilyn hardly bathed. She was adverse to soap and water. As hot as she was she must have stunk like rotten onions and clorox smell from cum.

• From all that I've read she sounds a bit like Evita: kind to the little people, and a nightmare to The Powers That Be. I think she held a lot of grudges about how she was treated as a starlet. She was in a 20th Century Fox slave contract for years, still making peanuts while they made millions off her hit comedies. She died almost broke.

• Marilyn was intent on converting and always considered herself spiritually Jewish. She was very well-read and philosophical. She adored children and animals. She was also very ambitious in an era were women had few options in America, so she went the sex bomb way. It was merely a method of achieving--many have said that she dislike sex. She took on Darryl Zanuck who no one else dared fuck with. She started her own production company. She did very well for herself.

• [quote] She was in a 20th Century Fox slave contract for years, still making peanuts while they made millions off her hit comedies. Under the studio system most actors in Old Hollywood didn't make much. The smart ones had other investments. It would've been a mistake to pay her too much - it would've only encouraged her bad behavior. She was expendable; any girl with fake blond hair could've done what she did.

• Zanuck had a thing for Elizabeth Taylor (better in bed?) and gave her everything. Marilyn was basically paid scale and denied choice roles. The world loves both women but Americans and Hispanics have a soft spot for Marilyn.

• She didn't have to put up with any men R17. She was a grown ass woman.

• "She was expendable" Nah, she was a star. She had that certain magic. The public loved her. And Hollywood knew it. They thought she was ovah after "The Prince and the Showgirl" disappointed, but she returned with "Some Like It Hot" and it was a HUGE hit. They wouldn't have hired her back for "Something's Got To Give" if they could "replace" her.

• Well for one thing, she was never the It Girl. That was Clara Bow. Among other things wildly incorrect in the analyses above, she wasn't bipolar. It wasn't fashionable at that time since it had not been invented yet.

• Marilyn had chronic insomnia which made her reliant on sleeping pills and downers. Unfortuntely for her, Quaaludes weren't invented until the seventies and man those were good.

• R25, Clara was the original It girl but MM was an It girl too.

• I always remember a co-worker telling me that when she was a child she lived in NYC near Marilyn and Marilyn would always love to play with the kids. She said she was a real sweetheart. I think Marilyn wanted to be a mother in the worst way. Very sad what happened to her.

• She was luminously lovely and mysteriously sad. She was not so talented but was the most famous woman in the world in the 1950's. She was pre-feminist pro sex and self promoting. She fucked a lot of men to get to the top. She wanted respect. That was not possible then. She was a damaged person who lived in analysis but exhausted those who loved her. She was a true MOVIE STAR and thoroughly unprofessional. She was not the first blonde, but she is THE blonde, still. She exists as an image and an icon and to some a joke, but there is a soulfulness in her display, she was in on the joke. She created herself. She conquered the world but was too damaged to function. She was lovely...... Forever Young, montage.

  http://youtu.be/LYoZh1Pzg1w

• [quote]Zanuck had a thing for Elizabeth Taylor (better in bed?) and gave her everything. Marilyn was basically paid scale and denied choice roles. Probably for the best, Taylor was a much better actress and I can't imagine Monroe in many of Taylor's fifties roles. [quote]Nah, she was a star. She had that certain magic. I never got her supposed "magic". She only came across as a limited actress to me. Joan Crawford; now there was a woman with that star magnetism. [quote]They wouldn't have hired her back for "Something's Got To Give" if they could "replace" her. I'm not sure what happened but the decision was probably financial.

• She clearly had a timeless charisma (and incredible marketing--whoever owns that image should be a billionaire by now) but I just don't buy that there was much behind the relentless promotion. She was pretty and sexy, but not a very good actress. Subtract the Kennedy-fucking and I don't think we would still be talking about her. She would be Clara Bow.

• I read in some bio that the reason she did the nude scene in "Something's Got To Give" was because she wanted to knock Elizabeth Taylor off the front pages of all the newspapers and magazines. Taylor was in the midst of the "Cleopatra" drama with Eddie and Burton and you could not find a magazine or paper without Taylor's pic on it. Marilyn succeeded.

  http://www.franksreelreviews.com/images/stories/marilynmonroe/Marilyn-Monroe-Nude-04.jpg

• "She was very well-read and philosophical." No, she wasn't. You must have naively believed the "did Marilyn Monroe really say all those philosophical quotes?" thread which was not meant to be taken seriously. And Monroe posed for a lot of photographs seemingly "reading" a "deep" book, but she was not a reader. According to those who knew her she liked to talk on the phone and listen to records and go to parties, but was not into reading at all.

• OP, I'm confused. Are you now, or are you still yet?

• One of my favorite pics

  http://backseatcuddler.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/marilyn-monroe-heels.jpg

• And another

  http://risensources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/marilyn-monroe-by-the-pool01.jpg

• "--whoever owns that image should be a billionaire by now" She died young, suddenly and without husband/children. In hindsight she should have left everything to her mother and half-sister. The Strassbergs were starfuckers; she was already weaning herself from them at the time of her death. No one could have imagined at the time how huge her legacy would be.

  http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/marilyn-monroe-estate-loses-tax-case-63871-1.html

• Lee Strasberg was a real prick. He and his awful wife Paula glommed onto poor Marilyn who paid them huge fees to make her into "a serious actress." Marilyn left Lee Strasberg all of her personal effects, to be distributed among her friends. He kept them all. After Paula Strasberg's death, he remarried. For some reason he disinherited his children by Paula Strasberg and left everything to his second wife, including Marilyn's belongings. She ended up auctioning them off. Before her death he was in California, but did not take the time to visit her. However he did take center stage at her funeral, giving the eulogy and telling the mourners that he was certain "she would have become one of the greatest actresses of the stage." Holy Jesus! Marilyn could barely make movies (she was perpetually late and couldn't remember her lines) and he's saying she could be a stage actress?! Well, I guess he would say that; that's what he tried to make poor Marilyn believe. But that was bullshit. That's what he and Paula Strasberg did to Marilyn Monroe: bullshitted her and took her money. They were leeches.

• She ate my pussy!

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• Interesting R38

• She was an absolute doll.

• MUCH smarter than she ever got credit for. She almost single-handedly saved Arthur Miller from the House on Unamerican Activities by announcing (prematurely) her engagement to Miller and that the head of 20th Century Fox would be in attendance at the wedding to give her away (this was news to him, but he could hardly back put at that point). Was magic on film (in The Prince and the Showgirl she acted Olivier off the screen). Dame Sybil Thorndyke (no acting slouch herself) thought she was a genius as a movie actress (look it up on Youtube).

• oh Marilyn was wonderful. We used to sit and talk for hours. She'd tell me all about her day while I massaged her feet. She'd listen to my problems for hours pretending to be engaged. I loved her.

  anonymous

• if only they had written a book or made a movie or some sort of documentary about her.....

• She could be terrific in both comedy (HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE, where she shows incredible comic timing) and in melodrama (NIAGARA). But she was very uneven. She was always affecting onscreen, and as someone said on another thread recently, she always could demonstrate real warmth on screen, which is a hard thing for actors to do. but sometimes she just wasn't very good, even in her most iconic roles (she's close to embarrassing in parts of SOME LIKE IT HOT, and never manages to make any of her lines funny--she's affecting when she thinks her heart is broken, but the role was mostly supposed to be funny too, and she's just not very funny in it). She's a genuine screen presence, and had real talents. But, they are sometimes as overrated as they are underrated.

• Uneven, but could be amazing describes MM.

• Did the Strasbergs do her any favors by telling her she was a great actress, and should be doing drama? Wouldn't she have been better off with friends who told her that she could be very good, but if she wanted to make the most of her gifts she would need to behave more professionally? She didn't have many hits after she took up with the Strasbergs, did she.

• r21 any girl with fake blond hair could've done what she did. - THAT IS JUST STUPID. It is well documented - haven't you read any hollywood books or magazines? - no other blonde came anywhere near what MM achieved, and heavens knows they tried ...

• Although she isn't well remembered today Betty Grable achieved greater commercial success than Monroe, R48.

• Wow, r45, I don't think she strikes a single false note in Some Like It Hot. She is also perfection in The 7 Year Itch, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire, occasionally even uplifting some of the mediocre material in them.

• Nice pic of Betty and Marilyn.

  http://bettygrable.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/betty_grable_marilyn_monroe.jpg

• Dame Sybil sets the haters straight!

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• Didn't she have ANY gal pals? That pic with Betty Grable looks so sweet

• [quote]Wow, [R45], I don't think she strikes a single false note in Some Like It Hot. I particularly cringe every time I hear her say, "She's a Vassar girl... or was it Bryn Mawr?" She cannot get the comedy out of that line and it just falls with a thud.

• Shelley Winters was a long time girlfriend to Marilyn. They had been roommates early on in both of their careers. Jane Russell also remained a good friend to Marilyn.

  http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KvCbPC8CuQA/TXsXWo5fHUI/AAAAAAAAEM0/XuCot8aL-3w/s400/ShelleyWinters-MarilynMonroe-GoldenGlobe-1961

• Let's just say there is a reason she is STILL one of the biggest stars in the world. Haters will hate. Perception is everything.

• Wow. One of the all-time idiot OPs.