Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sincerely appreciated your May 14 story on Norma Jeane Baker Dougherty DiMaggio Monroe. Maybe Marilyn Monroe Productions will film the life story of this amazing girl; I'm sure M.M. would win an Oscar if it did. Suggested title: "Grushenka Monroe, 12-Year-Old Sweater Girl...
...camera's hypnotic eye and the overbearing mass of cables and equipment win priority almost everywhere. Policemen barred reporters from the scene of a recent Los Angeles train wreck while TV cameras prowled after a trench-coated commentator interviewing survivors as they came out of the wreckage. When Marilyn Monroe returned to Hollywood after a year's absence, officials at the airport held reporters back until live and filmed TV crews got their fill. Hollywood's annual Academy Award ceremony, says the U.P.'s Aline Mosby, is "Now entirely geared...
Almost at once Marilyn found friends in the theater-Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, the Strasbergs, Arthur Miller, Norman and Hedda Rosten, Maureen Stapleton. "For the first time," she says, "I felt accepted, not as a freak, but as myself." She showed a nice talent for painting (watercolors), and she read aloud from poems she could hardly understand. Friends sent her to the Actors Studio. After about six months of study and exercise, she finally worked up courage to do a 20-minute scene from Anna Christie before the other students, many of them practiced professionals. They praised her work...
...Real Actress? All at once Marilyn could talk without any stutter at all. She could hardly stop talking. She was gay, and her wit ran free. She leaned less on her friends, stood more on her own feet. Her health was better. The rashes, the sweats, the psychosomatic colds came less often. The old fears were still there, but now there was a way to transform them. "I never dared to think about it," says Marilyn, "but now I want to be an artist. I want to be a real actress...
...probably can be. In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Marilyn showed her talent for comedy. In Bits Stop she has a chance to show what she can do with the first part she has ever played that is any deeper than her makeup. In Sleeping Prince she will have to hold the screen against Sir Laurence Olivier, one of the most accomplished actors of the English-speaking world. Next winter, it was reported last week, Marilyn will tackle Aristophanes' Lysistrata on TV, and she is deadly determined that some day she will play Grushenka in The Brothers Karamazov...