Sunday, June 1, 2008

The Marilyn We Knew


Vs. the Marilyn We Didn't Know

Marilyn Monroe: beautiful and vulnerable. That's how people saw her. But what was she really like? Did anyone really figure her out completely? Was devoted DiMaggio privy to her innermost feelings? Was Arthur Miller? There was depth, but it was tortured by something else. Affairs with Kennedy's? Who knows? Did she hate fame? Did she come to hate her image? Was it the public who really killed her?

All those questions of a 36-year-old movie star who was more famous than anyone in the world. She would have been 82 today. She's left us craving for the answers to those questions - forever.

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