Bibiliography:
My Story by Marilyn Monroe, 1974.
Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote, 1980. (Chapter 6 A Beautiful Child is Capote's novelized non-fiction story about MM.)
Marilyn Monroe by Barbara Leaming, 1998.
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto, 1993.
Links:
Calendar photos of Marilyn: https://www.widewalls.ch/marilyn-monroe-rare-nude-photos/
Scudda Hoo Scudda Hay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gD8YZu8uLs&t=3110s
Marilyn Miller (Marilyn's namesake): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Miller
From My Story
At 13, first time walking down the beach in a bathing suit:
"I was full of a strange feeling, as if I were two people. One of them was Norma Jean from the orphanage who belonged to nobody. The other was someone whose name I didn't kow. But I knew where she belonged. She belonged to the ocean and the sky and the whole world."
Acting teacher Michael Chekhov, "You are a young woman who gives off sex vibrations-no matter what you are doing or thinking...You can make the studio a fortune by merely vibrating in front of the camera. You more valuable to them as a sex stimulant."
MM: "I want that. Because I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don't want to be sold to the public as a celluoid aphrodisical. Look at me and start shaking.It was all right for the first few years. but now it's different."
Background: Maternal great-grandfather has syphilis and got dementia as a result; maternal grandmother died in a straitjacket (violent and ran around naked); maternal grandfather was an alcoholic; mother was commited to mental hospital; was not sure who her father was.
When she was 7 a neighbor chopped her dog in 2 in front of her.
From Music for Chameleons:
Constance Collier's description:
She is a beautiful child. I don’t mean that in the obvious way—the perhaps too obvious way. I don’t think she’s an actress at all, not in any traditional sense. What she has—this presence, this luminosity, this flickering intelligence—could never surface on the stage. It’s so fragile and subtle, it can only be caught by the camera. It’s like a hummingbird in flight: only a camera can freeze the poetry of it. But anyone who thinks this girl is simply another Harlow or harlot or whatever is mad. ..This beautiful child is without any concept of discipline or sacrifice. Somehow I don’t think she’ll make old bones. Absurd of me to say, but somehow I feel she’ll go young. I hope, I really pray, that she survives long enough to free the strange lovely talent that’s wandering through her like a jailed spirit.”
EPISODE 40: Jaqueline Susann and Valley of the Dolls
EPISODE 39 Carole Lombard Pt. II: The Profane Angel
EPISODE 39 Carole Lombard Pt. I: The Orchid Lady?
EPISODE 38 Jane Austen Pt. III- Her Works
Summer Vacation: No Foibles Episode in May
EPISODE 38 Jane Austen Pt. II- Her Times
EPISODE 38 Jane Austen Pt. I- Her Life
EPISODE 37 Preston Sturges Pt. IV- A Pratfall is Better Than Anything
EPISODE 37 Preston Sturges Pt. III- A Bedroom is Better than a Living Room
EPISODE 37 Preston Sturges Pt. II- An Arrival is Better Than a Departure
EPISODE 37 Preston Sturges Pt. I- A Dog is Better Than a Landscape
EPISODE 36 Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy ”Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life at Last We’ve Found Thee”
EPISODE 35 ”Oh Humanity!” Billy Budd and Bartleby the Scrivener
EPISODE 34 Rudolph Valentino Pt. VI: Valentino, Goodbye. There’s a New Star In Heaven Tonight
EPISODE 34 Rudolph Valentino Pt. V: Megastardom and the European Tour
Episode 34 Rudolph Valentino Pt. IV: How She Won the Sheik
Foibles Episode 34 Rudolph Valentino Pt. III: He Would Stroll on the Beach with Two White Wolf Hounds
Foibles Episode 34 Rudolph Valentino Pt. II: Ten Cents a Dance
Foibles Episode 34 Rudolph Valentino Pt I: The Original Latin Lover
Foibles Episode 33: Pnin, Vladimir Nabokov’s Answer to Don Quixote
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