Word: actress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...movie star named Marilyn Monroe, and the dream came true on such a preposterous scale that her new wide world has fallen at her feet. In Hollywood's pagan pantheon, Marilyn Monroe is the Goddess of Love. Furthermore, she has shown signs of becoming a good actress, and many a once-skeptical professional now thinks she may become an outstanding...
Figure of Fantasy. Actress Monroe stands 5 ft. 5½ in. in her stocking feet (5 ft. 9 in. in the stiletto heels her roles require), and she is a little leaner (118 Ibs.) than she looks on the screen. In a sweater, as everybody can see, she is a standout; "I defy gravity," says Marilyn. In skintight toreador pants, she manages to make the world's most famous come-on out of a simple walkaway, and Marilyn's face, by popular standards, is as spectacular as her figure...
...Hollywood. "I want some respect," she huffed at the world in general, and off she flounced to New York. Her studio bosses hastily offered her more money. "I don't care about money," she said. "I want better parts and better directors. I want to be an actress...
...only a dumb blonde? When Actress Monroe announced that her first independent production, The Sleeping Prince, would be made with Sir Laurence Olivier as her co-star and director, she began to look suspiciously like a shrewd business woman. "Monroe and Olivier," beamed Director Joshua Logan, "that's the best combination since black and white...
...this "The Girl Most Likely to Thaw Out Alaska," the notorious nude in the most popular photograph ever taken? The story of Actress Monroe's life is not the maudlin tale that Hollywood loves to tell about how a star is born. It more resembles the plot of a social novel by Charles Dickens. "This girl," says one of Marilyn's friends...