Marilyn Monroe started life as a model and ended up a movie star

How Marilyn Monroe became a movie legend
 

Marilyn teamed with cover photographers that would take America head on. They planned to go around America, taking pictures, and having a great time.

Instantly, Marilyn knew she was on the right track to end up in movies. 

All the film directors and producers wanted the long-legged beauty almost immediately; they kept an eye on her through special agents in their employ. A couple of the agents nearly came to blows.
 

Main: Marilyn Monroe, the world most photographed women.
 

“Marilyn was the world’s most photographed woman,” according to Director Karen Quinlan at Bendigo Art Gallery (with the recent Marilyn Monroe Expo), “Even from her major and minor roles in films such How to Marry a Millionaire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and There’s No Business-like Show Business, without a doubt.”

“Marilyn Monroe epitomises Hollywood glamour. Contrasting the characters, she played on … screen, the exhibition explored Marilyn’s milieu and her personal life as an orphan, a child bride, three divorces and several miscarriages.”

The glamour of the gowns is a thing to behold, too!
 

“She was beautiful and untouched; it was as though she were just beginning.”
- Bert Stern

The film Don’t Bother to Knock demonstrates her acting skill and ability to transform herself from a serious dramatic role into the light-hearted comic aspects of Some Like it Hot.

Released in 1952, Don’t Bother to Knock was described as a “tough act for Marilyn” considering this movie was at the start of her career. She was stuck with a shabby and absurd script. 

Marilyn plays an “unhinged girl hired as a babysitter … who threatens to kill the youngster in her care,” says Rating the Movies Consumer Guide.

Marilyn Monroe gives the “unhinged” killer a powerful piece of acting skill no matter how slow and lazy the script was.

Halfway through the 1950s, her life took a crazy turn - for the worst.

In 1961, Marilyn and Arthur Miller were divorced; the film Misfits was released; and she looks different on screen.

From April through June in 1962, she was busy filming Something’s Got To Give! and it remains unfinished. But in May of that year, she sang “Happy Birthday” at President Kennedy’s birthday gala.

Later, in Death of an Icon, SBS TV, Marilyn, is shown in deep conversation with the President and Robert Kennedy. The President said words like, “You shouldn’t sung that song.” Marilyn was aghast.

That August, Marilyn was found dead in bed at home. Was it suicide, accidental overdose, or murder? A newspaper headline, “MM was it suicide or murder?” over a shot of Marilyn.

Her death is still being investigated to this day.

<< Frank Morris. Marilyn Monroe on SBS, SBS ON DEMAND, and assorted newspapers and magazine.
 

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