MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "Look at that face---she could be five years old." - Laurence Olivier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "It may sound peculiar to say so, because she is no longer with us, but we were very close. Once when we were doing that picture together, I got a call on the set: my younger daughter had had a fall. I ran home and the one person to call was Marilyn. She did an awful lot to boost things up for movies when everything was at a low state; there'll never be anyone like her for looks, for attitude, for all of it." - Betty Grable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "She can make any move, any gesture, almost insufferably suggestive." - Henry Hathaway- director of Niagara Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "She's one of the few stars who don't act as if she's made it. She does not coast. She worked harder in Let's Make Love than she did in Clash by Night. She's still the same person." Jerry Wald, producer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "She is a beautiful child. I don't think she's an actress at all, not in a 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 But anyone who thinks this girl is simply another Harlow or harlot or whatever, is mad. 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." Constance Collier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "My arrival in school, with painted lips and darkened brows, started everybody buzzing. Why I was a siren, I hadn't the faintest idea. I didn't want to be kissed, and I didn't dream of being seduced by a duke or a movie star. The truth was that with all my lipstick and mascara and precocious curves, I was as unresponsive as a fossil. But I seemed to affect people quite otherwise." MM to Ben Hecht on the student Norma Jean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy." MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "I think if other girls know how bad I was when I started they'll be encouraged. I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress ~and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances." - *MM* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "There were dozens of us on the set, bit players, with a gesture to make and a line or two to recite. A few were young and had nice bosoms; but I knew they were different from me. They didn't have my illusions. My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third- rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve. I didn't want anything else. Not men, not money, not love, but the ability to act." - MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "I strove to look like Betty Grable, but I thought Alice Faye had more class to her looks." - *MM* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "Mv first contract with 20th Century-Fox was like my first vaccination. It didn't take." - *MM* with Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can foIlow through and prove yourself." - *MM* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "People ask me if I am going on making cheesecake pictures now that I'm a star. My answer is that as long as there is a boy in Korea who wants a **** of me, I'll go on posing for them." *MM to Hedda Hopper, 1952* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 11, 2008 Author Share Posted September 11, 2008 "It's like salt on a steak. All you need is a little bit of it." - *MM* on jealousy, 1952 MM and Yves Montand Simone Signoret (Mrs Yves Montand), MM and Yves Simone Signoret (Mrs Yves Montand), Yves and MM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 The Marilyn Files At Frank Sinatra?s suggestion, Marilyn Monroe kept her life inside two filing cabinets?letters, invoices, financial records, and the mementos that meant the most to her. After her tragic death, in 1962, at the age of 36, the cabinets, together with an assortment of jewels, fur coats, and other personal belongings, were stashed away by the actress?s business manager, Inez Melson. This secret trove would remain virtually unknown to the world for more than four decades, until photographer Mark Anderson began an epic two-year project of documenting it. His photographs, made public for the first time, offer new insights into the life of Hollywood?s most iconic figure. WEB EXCLUSIVE September 2, 2008 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/marilyn/marilyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 "I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody-I don't know who or what-maybe myself. I have feelings some days when there are scenes with a lot of responsiblity, and I'll wish, gee, if only I would have been a cleaning woman." *MM* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 "I want him to direct me again. But he's doing the Lindbergh story next. And he won't let me play Lindbergh." - MM, following her 'feud' with Billy Wilder, 1960 with Joe E. Brown, Some Like it Hot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankGrimes Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 I absolutely love your combination of quotes and photos, Miss G! It's ever so stylish. Magnifique! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CelluloidKid Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 > {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote} > I absolutely love your combination of quotes and photos, Miss G! It's ever so > stylish. Magnifique! Merci, Monsieur Grimes! _CK_; "Electric lips." interesting picture! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Thanks for my jeans-and-pigtails Marilyn, Miss G! I've been trying to figure out what makes her so special -- she's very modern in a way that the sex symbols before her imo aren't, but I can't put my finger on why. I'm sure Norman Mailer and all the social and cultural critics have analyzed this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 12, 2008 Author Share Posted September 12, 2008 Hi Bronxie! > {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > Thanks for my jeans-and-pigtails Marilyn, Miss G! I've been trying to figure out what makes her so special -- she's very modern in a way that the sex symbols before her imo aren't, but I can't put my finger on why. You mean when she's in pigtails and jeans or Marilyn in general? > I'm sure Norman Mailer and all the social and cultural critics have analyzed this. If they have it's ok, just ignore them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronxgirl48 Posted September 12, 2008 Share Posted September 12, 2008 Marilyn in general, with the trajectory of her career and her personality; i.e. at the height of her sex symbol fame, enrolling at the Studio to become a serious actress, etc. Somehow the 50's seem the "start" of our modern era. I'm sure Mailer's tome to her appeal is full of intellectual poo-poo. Aww, that's a sweet photo! Message was edited by: Bronxgirl48 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGoddess Posted September 13, 2008 Author Share Posted September 13, 2008 > {quote:title=Bronxgirl48 wrote:}{quote} > Marilyn in general, with the trajectory of her career and her personality; i.e. at the height of her sex symbol fame, enrolling at the Studio to become a serious actress, etc. Somehow the 50's seem the "start" of our modern era. > She certainly has had phenomenal staying power since her death, unlike the others before and since. And so many starlets and models still try to approximate her "look". Anna Nicole, a half dozen pop singers, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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