Marilyn Monroe

[Edit this paragraph] Introduction

Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 ~ August 5, 1962)

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Constellation: Gemini

Blood Type: AB

Birthday: June 1, 1926

Memorial date: August 5, 1962

Height: 166CM

Weight: 53.2KG

Measurements: 89cm-56cm- 89 cm

Favorite wine: champagne and vodka

Favorite song: Diamonds are a girl's best friend.

Favorite sculptor: Rodin

Cars owned: Black "Thunderbird" sports car, black Cadillac convertible

Famous work: "Niagara" (1953) Year)

[Edit this paragraph] Life

Marilyn Monroe was born in Los Angeles General Hospital on June 1, 1926. Her real name was Norma Jean Mortenson. Mortenson), Norma had a rough life. Before she was born, her father bought a motorcycle, then rode it, heading north towards San Francisco. He never came back, leaving behind his family and his unborn child. Norma's father's image will always be blurred in her mind. As for her mother, Gladys, although she gave birth to her, she did not raise her. Not only was the relationship between men and women complicated, but it was almost impossible to figure out who the father of the child was.

Gladys once worked as a film editor in a major studio at the time, but failed to fulfill her responsibilities as a mother. When she was nine years old, her mother still could not accept the fact that her father had left and was imprisoned in a mental hospital. hospital. In 1941, little Norma arrived at the home of "Aunt Anna" in California. A year later, 16-year-old Norma married James Doherty, who was four years older than her, and had her own home for the first time. However, this was a loveless marriage. Two years later, her husband was drafted into the army. It was during the Second World War. Soon, her husband filed for divorce because she was dissatisfied with Norma's new career, so the marriage ended when she was 20 years old. . With her good looks, Marilyn Monroe worked as a swimsuit model. Her beautiful image spread everywhere, and finally reached the hands of the film tycoon Howard Hughes, who asked her to participate in an audition. However, her agent suggested She chose the larger Twentieth Century Fox.

In 1946, Norma was hired by the boss of Twentieth Century Fox, and she got the stage name - Marilyn Monroe. The early work was not going well. She just ran around in some films and said a few lines like "Hello!". In order to earn fifty dollars and show off her art, Marilyn started taking nude photos. In order to prevent her car from being pawned, the news was reported by tabloids after she became famous. In the face of public opinion, Marilyn did not deny it, which made her gain sympathy from the public. In 1950, John boldly cast Marilyn in one or two key roles in "Asphalt Jungle". Immediately afterwards, several big stars such as Marilyn and Betty Davis filmed "The Secret Life of Eve". Although her appearance time was very short, her innocence and innocence left a deep impression on people listening to the clear dialogue. Impression, Fox waited for the film to end before signing a seven-year contract extension with her.

In 1947, Marilyn Monroe filmed her first movie, "The Shocking Miss Pilgrim", but she only played a small supporting role in the film. Her subsequent films also showed little improvement, and Fox was unwilling to cooperate with her. She renewed her contract, so she had no choice but to return to modeling and start taking acting classes.

In 1949, she posed nude for Playboy magazine, and then took on two films, "Al-About Eve" and "The Asphalt Jungle," although she still had a small role in the film. , but has begun to attract the attention of movie fans.

Entering the 1950s, "Niagara", "Monkey Business", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "River Of No Return" ), "The Seven-Year Itch" (The Seven-Year Itch), etc., gradually establishing her image as a sexy goddess on the screen. Her marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio and modern playwright Arthur Miller, as well as her scandal with President Kennedy, intertwined a dazzling world of love.

53 years ago, although Marilyn received praise from film critics, film companies always limited her to playing "idiot beauty" roles. In order to develop, she appeared in Michael Checher Listen to drama classes and rehearse classical plays at the Husband Theater. At this time, a reporter recognized the nude model on the "Golden Dream" calendar as Marilyn. The news was revealed, and instead of ruining her future, it actually aroused the audience's curiosity and paid more attention to her. 1953 was a turning point in Marilyn's life. She played the leading role for the first time in the movie "Niagara." The film uses the world-famous waterfall as the background to highlight Marilyn's graceful figure. Since the film was released, the theaters have been sold out, and she has not only become a first-rate star, but also the most amazing myth created by Hollywood.

In 1954, Marilyn married baseball player Joe DiMaggio. Unfortunately, the baseball giant was jealous and placed many restrictions on her, and the two eventually parted ways. Her second marriage only lasted nine months. The divorce was announced on October 27. At a press conference on October 6, Marilyn's lawyer explained the reason for the divorce as "career conflicts."

After playing a number of roles in movies, Marilyn began to pursue a further acting career and get rid of her "shallow blonde beauty" image. In 1956, he began to study under the guidance of Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York. That year Marilyn and photographer Milton Greene founded the Marilyn Monroe Film Production Company. Later productions "Bus Stop" (1956) and "The Prince and The Showgirl" (1957) were two films that showcased Marilyn's high-level acting abilities.

On July 1, 1956, she got married to the playwright Arthur Miller. They met when they were filming "Young and Living" in 1951. The Misfits in 1961 was her first love. Written for Monroe, it was also the last film she completed. Marilyn's third marriage ended on January 20, 1961.

Every film Marilyn made before her marriage was an extraordinary hit, especially in the film "The Seven Year Itch" where she stood on a hollow iron plate at the subway entrance, the wind blowing from below Blowing up her skirt became the most famous scene in her film. However, Monroe was no longer satisfied with the role of silly beauty. In the following performance of "Bus Stop", she integrated her life experience into the character, and her acting talent reached an unprecedented height. In the film, when she appears in a small bar, she really looks gorgeous and radiant.

In 1957, "The Prince and the Dancer", a collaboration with Laurence Olivier, suffered an unprecedented failure. After fading out for two years, Marilyn very carefully took over the "Some Like It Hot" movie. The filming was very hard and she had two miscarriages, but it was all worth it - "Some Like It Hot" became her highest-grossing film.

In 1960, Marilyn and Clark Gable co-starred in "The Misfits." No one expected that this would be their last film. A few days after the shutdown, Clark Gable suffered a sudden heart attack. Rather than cure the body and die. She officially separated from her husband, Arthur Miller, in November of that year, and the emotional trauma caused by this divorce has never healed. Her neurasthenia became serious and she had to enter a mental hospital for a short period of treatment. A year later, Marilyn, who was in high spirits, took over the new film "On the verge of collapse". This was the first time since that magazine nude photo that Marilyn agreed to take nude scenes in the film.

On June 1, 1962, she celebrated her thirty-sixth birthday in the studio. In order to prove that she was as plump and charming as before, Marilyn took a transparent gauze scarf to cover up in front of Bert Stern's camera and took the last set of extremely charming photos in her life. Saturday, August 4th, was the climax of Monroe's tragic life. This morning, people also saw her bright face. No one expected that this would be the last glory before death.

In 1962, when Marilyn Monroe was in poor work and physical condition, she had an unpleasant quarrel with the film company for the filming of "Something's Got to Give". On May 19 She ignored her work and was invited to sing "Happy Birthday" to President Kennedy. She passed away suddenly on August 5 of this year. The "double" film was not completed, but she left the classic "Happy Birthday-day Mr. President" in the world.

In the early morning of August 5, 1962, Marilyn’s housekeeper found the light in her bedroom still on. She was lying naked on the bed and passed away in the house she had just purchased in Los Angeles, California. . Her personal doctor determined that she died at 3:40 am. The Los Angeles coroner later said her death was caused by an "overdose, acute barbiturate intoxication." Days before Monroe died, her doctor prescribed barbiturates, a powerful sleeping pill. Because before this, she felt a little stressed about not being able to get a movie role, and she was a little uneasy, but she quickly returned to normal. Although she had attempted suicide before, there were many contradictions in Marilyn's death that made the theory of suicide doubtful.

[Edit this paragraph] Film Chronology

"Dangerous Years" (1948) (Supporting Role)

"Scuda, call! "Scudda-hoo! Scudd-hay" (Supporting role)

"The summe's lightning" (1948) (Supporting role)

"Song and Dance" "Laddies of Chorus" (1949)

"ATicket to Tomahawk" (1950)

"Happy Love" (Love Happy) (1950)

"The Asphalt Jungle" (1950)

"All about Eve" (1950)

"The Go-Go Man" (1950)

"Right Cross" (also known as "Deserved") (1950)

"Hometown" "Hometown Story" (1951)

"As Young As You Feel" (1951)

"Love Nest" (Love Nest) (1951)

"Let's Make it Legal" (also known as "Let's Make it Legal") (1951)

"Clash By Night" (1952)

"We Are Not Married" (1952)

"No Knocking" (Don't Bother to Knock) (1952)

"Monkey Business" (also known as "Monkey Business" (1952)

"O. Henry's Full House" (1952)

"Niagara" (1953)

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) (1953)

"How to Marry A Millionaire" (1953)

"The River Goes East" ( River of No Return) (1954)

"There is No Business Like Show Business" (also known as "Singing and Dancing Good Business") (1954)

"The Seven-Years Itch" (1955)

Plot synopsis: A publisher who has been married for 7 years but has no courage to commit crimes. When his wife and children go out, While on vacation, he fantasized about the beautiful new advertising star upstairs. In the process of imagining, his moral concepts and his own evil thoughts kept colliding. Finally, he made a decision: reject the temptation and immediately rush to the vacation where his wife and children were. land.

The comedy masterpiece "The Seven Year Itch" directed by Billy Wilder can be regarded as a milestone in Monroe's acting career. In the film, she plays a charming and sultry urban girl who unintentionally shows off. In addition to being sexy, it makes the middle-aged intellectual who lives downstairs feel uneasy and unbearable. It vividly depicts the man's free time to have an affair under the constraints of marriage. The classic shot of Monroe standing on a subway vent letting the wind blow up her white tutu into waves has become a representative symbol of sexy scenes!

"Bus Stop" (1956)

"The Prince And The Showgirl" (1957)

"Some Like It Hot" (1959)

"Let's Make Love" (1960)

"Untimely" "The Misfits" (1961)

"Something Got To Give" (1962)

[Edit this paragraph] Death of Marilyn Monroe

Although there are hundreds of books about Monroe and her death, the information about her has disappeared or been buried with her. In August 2005, 86-year-old retired Los Angeles medical examiner John Minor came to the office of Los Angeles Times reporter Folger Becklet. He brought the tapes that Monroe gave to the psychiatrist Greenson before her death.

Two days after Monroe's death, Greenson gave his friend Miner two tapes that Monroe had sent the day before her death. Miner promised Greenson not to turn them over to the police until 43 years later, when he was in financial trouble and had to sell the tapes to reporters. Many dusty past events about Monroe have been revealed again.

If we rewind the film back to January 1960, we will see the scene when Monroe arrived in Greenson's office. At that time, Monroe had already experienced three psychiatrists, and there were rumors that she had "melancholy." In fact, Monroe was often delirious at the time, and the entire crew had to wait for her to wake up. In order not to delay the progress of the film, someone found Ralph Gleason, a psychiatrist who was closely related to Hollywood. His patients included Peter Lowe (director of "The Spies of North Africa") and Vivien Leigh. "This is a woman who is in a state of extreme panic, a woman who is taking so much drugs and pills that she may be self-destructive," the man said as he introduced Greenson to his future patient.

Many films about Greenson and Monroe unfolded at this point. Most of them were revealed through psychological confinement, which was intermittent and even chaotic: a girl who was abandoned by her mother since she was a child and whose father was nowhere to be found, wandering in the In foster homes, she was sexually assaulted and molested by her stepfather as a child; the mental trauma she suffered as a child made her unable to respect herself as an adult, and she was always worried about being abandoned; this 34-year-old woman has always believed that she was an abandoned person. As a child, she tried her best to make herself attractive in public places, but completely ignored herself when she was alone. She used taking pictures to resist anxiety, but often stuttered when facing the movie camera; childhood trauma and Hollywood subversion. The crazy environment was compounded, and her way of resisting was to take 20 barbiturates a day, swallow a lot of sedatives, and was even sent to a closed psychiatric ward...

Greenson once tried to Using "empathy" therapy to cure Monroe, he brought her into his family, allowing her to feel the warmth of home, participate in her work and life, and designate a suitable house for her who had no fixed place to live. Just when he thought her condition was about to improve, her life ended abruptly.

Although in "The Last Days of Monroe", the truth about her death is hidden in those intermittent black clips, the Marilyn I saw was the moment she entered Hollywood. , already dead.

She was portrayed by Hollywood as a sexy idol with a false image, voice, personality, and even walking posture. This unreality made her often need to stare at the mirror in a daze for hours to distinguish the person in the mirror. Who is. If this woman who lacked love since she was a child had not entered Hollywood, she might just need a little luck and wisdom like an ordinary woman, find a man who loves her and can give her stability, start a family, and have two children to make up for her deep love. The biggest gap in my heart. But fate made her step into Hollywood - an empty city that magnifies cruelty, is colorful on the outside, but riddled with holes on the inside.

Inside the spotlight, she is the white queen. Outside the spotlight, she is abandoned by her lover and betrayed by her friends. Some men leave her because she is Monroe, while others leave her because she is not "Monroe". Leave her; she was divided up by everyone, and everyone took a piece of her body in exchange. Even the body that was dissected and gutted after death was sold to reporters at a high price to take pictures. She was still beautiful at the funeral, but in fact she was just a "rag doll" whose body was filled with plastic. She played her last scene in the spotlight. Perhaps only this most complete farewell can return Monroe to the world. herself.

This is a somewhat sad and even cruel book, because it reveals too much truth. It is also a precious book, because it gives Monroe the truth that she did not get during her lifetime.

Marilyn Monroe had a miserable life experience. Her mother was raped when she was 16 years old. And when Monroe became a sexy goddess after her struggle, she started a trend. Monroe died young and she was depressed in her life. She said this: "Some people are very unkind. If I say I want to grow into a As an actress, some people will look at my figure. If I say that I want to improve and learn to improve my acting skills, they will laugh. They actually don't think that I will take my acting seriously. "Some people say that this may be about fame and fortune. The price is wonderful, but it also brings regrets, and no one trapped in it can escape. Later generations, from Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa to Madonna to Angelina Jolie, all imitated Monroe's proud look. They also became famous, but they were also deeply involved in fame and fortune because no one understood Monroe's words thoroughly. If you imitate a person and read a person thoroughly, you will discover her failures and then surpass your predecessors.

[Edit this paragraph] The innocent sexy goddess

There may be very few people who have never heard of her name or seen her on TV or in movies. Recognized as the "sexy goddess", she is still talked about today and has not been surpassed by anyone.

Looking at her photos, I always feel that there is a childlike innocence mixed with the sexiness of the smokey eyes and half-opened red lips.

As an adopted daughter, in order not to move again, she married her neighbor when she was less than 16 years old. Later, the nude photos she took for magazines gradually made her synonymous with "sexy".

But sexiness also comes at a price. In order to highlight the slim waist, several ribs were removed. In order to make the original sparse teeth beautiful and tidy, the spots on the face were faded... The directors are willing to let them follow The camera behind her gave her a few minutes of close-ups of her "Monroe gait," but was stingy with giving her a chance to develop her acting skills. In their minds, as long as she poses in front of the camera, it's enough. Why take risks? Who would be willing to watch her perform her acting skills. After her death, one of her ex-husbands said it was Hollywood that killed Monroe.

She had two idols: Lincoln and Clark Gable, but the last script her ex-husband Arthur Miller wrote for her, "the Misfits", cost Gable his life. (She performed hard during the filming without using a stunt double, and died of a heart attack just after finishing the filming)

What impressed her most was: after she married baseball star DiMaggio, she followed her husband to Japan, After hearing the news, Mark Arthur, who was fighting in Korea at the time, invited her to perform a condolence performance in North Korea. She gladly accepted the invitation and performed for the soldiers in a freezing and snowy environment of dozens of degrees below zero, wearing a tights that looked similar to the one without. After returning to Japan, she published high fever. An admirable actress! (Think about some of today’s celebrities, so don’t mention them.

Of course I knew who the United States was fighting at that time, but I was just moved by her dedication and patriotism. )

As for her more famous works, they are "The Seven Year Itch", "Some Like It Hot", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "How to Marry a Millionaire", "The Prince and the Showgirl" 》. The scene in "The Seven Year Itch" where she laughed and held her flying skirt tightly at the subway entrance was plagiarized and reproduced in various forms in later movies and TV shows. However, I personally think that except for this scene and her posing, this movie Nothing else. "Some Like It Hot" is well worth watching. Although the most outstanding performance is not her performance as Sugar but Jack Lemon, it is one of her best performances.

Her death and her relationship with the Kennedy brothers have become difficult to solve mysteries, with different opinions and disagreements.

[Edit this paragraph] The world-famous painting Marilyn Monroe Diptych

This picture is Warhol's "Marilyn Monroe Diptych", which is a pop Representative works of art. Pop art is also known as "pop art". These artists use the popular world-famous painting Marilyn Monroe, diptych, commercial cultural image and everyday objects in urban life as their themes, such as discarded beer cans, advertising paintings, celebrity photos and Trademarks, cartoons, etc. are used as objects, using repeated collage or large-scale screen printing to create pop art.

In 1962, on the day when the "Two Hundred Campbell's Soup Cans" series of themed exhibitions ended, the famous American sexy star Marilyn Monroe mysteriously committed suicide. Warhol, who had always been fond of her, also Many people were shocked and sad, and could never forget the cute and sultry look of her holding down her skirt that was blown up by the wind with one hand and blowing a kiss with the other. So he took out the stills he had collected for a long time and created this unique painting. On the screen, Warhol repeatedly arranged more than a dozen images of Marilyn Monroe. And the right side is a repeated arrangement of black and white images, and the left side is a repeated arrangement of color images. Warhol used silk screen printing technology to mass-produce this same image. During the production process, he consciously realized that the registration was inaccurate, resulting in uneven color shades, blurring, and color misalignment, making the picture look inferior, popular, and vulgar. The repeated arrangement of this contrasting form seems to let all kinds of people remember this mysterious sexy female star who committed suicide. It is also a repeated, tireless, and stereotyped form of commemoration or reminiscence expression. Some people also explain that these slightly different repeated images express Marilyn Monroe's lonely and lonely inner world. Although she is in the spotlight, she is still lonely inside and cannot escape the fate of destruction in the end. Since the painter adopted the screen printing technology, the portraits can be mass-produced, and the artwork has become a commodity that can be mass-produced. As the artwork itself, the uniqueness and uniqueness are gone. As Warhol himself said: "I want to turn myself into a machine." His studio is also known as the "Factory." Later, he created a large number of "social portraits" in the same way.

The 20th century produced many influential Pop artists, as well as various Pop artworks. Although this art form is highly controversial, it has exerted a great influence on modern art. The impact is extensive and far-reaching.