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Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B
From what I've read, I'm not so sure, at least towards the end. Her bathing routine, or lack thereof, would have turned a lot of people away, apparently. She favored covering herself in perfume instead of stepping into a shower. Never understood the world's fascination with her insofar as her acting and apparent beauty are concerned. How she figured into the history of her era? OK, that can't be denied. Before she undertook the blonde Marilyn facade that made her famous, she really was just a nice-looking girl next door type. Wish she would have stuck to that, but then we'd never have her particular chunk of history.
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I'll try to explain her to you: Marilyn was a terrific actress across all genres. She ended up making her mark mostly in light comedy, but for dark drama in some great Film Noir check out "Don't Bother to Knock" with Richard Widmark or "Niagara" with Joseph Cotton where she more than holds her own with those Hollywood heavyweights. Her combination of beauty and overt sexuality ("Seven Year Itch," "Bus Stop," etc.) broke through a VERY conservative time to make that acceptable for generations to follow, thank God, in the way Elvis did with music. If you want to spend a couple of harrowing hours watching one of the great performances ever captured on film, check out her last one, "The Misfits," co-starring Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach, and directed by John Huston ("Treasure of Sierra Madre," etc.) I lived through her time, and I can tell you with absolute assurance that she earned her legend status 100% in her all-too-short time (36 when she died.) Oh, and she also happened to marry Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller ("Death of a Salesman.") As with the aforementioned Elvis, for a combination of ground-breaking talent and seismic cultural change that comes about rarely, there will NEVER be another Marilyn Monroe.