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Some thoughts about Marilyn Monroe“Hollywood is a place,” Marilyn Monroe once said, “where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. “I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough, and held out for the fifty cents.”
Também conhecida como: Norma Jeane Baker
Data de Nascimento:1º de junho, 1926
Local de Nascimento: Los Angeles, California
Data de Morte: 5 de agosto 1962
Local de Morte: Brentwood, California
Túmulo: Corridor of Memories, nº 24, em Westwood Memorial Park em Los Angeles, California.
Altura: 1,67m
Peso: 63 kg
Medidas: 93-58-91 (de acordo com o estúdio); 88-58-88 (de acordo com o costureiro)
Cor do cabelo: Loiro
Cor dos olhos: Azul
Colégios: Van Nuys High School; University High School
Ocupação: Modelo, atriz e cantora
Mãe: Gladys Baker
Meio irmão: Hermitt Jack Baker
Meia irmã: Berniece Miracle
Casamentos: Jimmy Dougherty (1942-1946); Joe DiMaggio (1954); Arthur Miller (1956-1961)Enteados: Joe DiMaggio Jr., Jane und Robert Miller
Você sabia?
Em 1999, Marilyn foi votada a mulher mais sensual do século 20 pela revista Playboy.
Em 1999, Marilyn foi votada a mulher mais sexy do mundo pela “People´s Magazine”.
Em 1º de junho 1995, Marilyn foi homenageada em um selo comemorativo de 32¢ que circulou pelos EUA.
Elton John gravou a música “Candle in the Wind” em homenagem a Marilyn Monroe.
Em dezembro de 1953, Marilyn foi a “queridinha” do mês da revista Playboy.
Em fevereiro de 1953, Marilyn foi nomeada “Mulher que mais Apareceu na Mídia no Mundo” pelo Advertising Association of the West.
Ela foi coroada Miss Rainha Alcachofra em 1947.
Em 1946, ela começou a usar o nome Marilyn Monroe, mas só o registrou em 23 de fevereiro de 1956.
Marilyn Monroe casou-se com Joe DiMaggio no San Francisco City Hall.
Marilyn Monroe foi nomeada pela Academy Award britânica “Melhor Atriz Estrangeira” no filme O Pecado Mora ao Lado (Seven Year Itch).
CITAÇÕES de Marilyn Monroe
“Eu sabia que eu pertencia ao público e ao mundo, não pelo fato de ser talentosa ou até mesmo bonita, mas porque eu nunca pertenci a nada ou a ninguém”
“Lá estava o meu nome iluminado. Eu disse “Deus, alguém cometeu um erro”. Mas lá estava, todo iluminado. E eu sentei e disse, “Lembre-se você não é uma estrela”. Porém, lá estava todo iluminado”.
“Eu serei uma grande estrela de cinema um dia”
“Eu não estou interessada em dinheiro. Eu só quero ser maravilhosa”.
“Ninguém nunca disse que eu era bonita quando pequena. Toda menina deveria ser chamada de bonita, mesmo se elas não são.”
”O corpo é para ser visto, não para ser coberto”
“Eu já estive em um calendário, mas nunca fui pontual”.
”Eu tenho fantasias demais para ser uma dona de casa. Acredito que eu sou uma fantasia”
”Uma atriz não é uma máquina, mas eles te tratam como se fosse. Uma máquina de fazer dinheiro”
”Ser um símbolo sexual é muita responsabilidade, especialmente quando se está cansada, magoada e vulnerável.”
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Some thoughts about Marilyn Monroe
06-01-2007
“Hollywood is a place,” Marilyn Monroe once said, “where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. “I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough, and held out for the fifty cents.”
Had she lived, Marilyn Monroe would have turned 81 today. But she didn’t live. She died 45 years ago, at age 36. Columnist Army Archerd wrote in DAILY VARIETY at the time, “Marilyn Monroe was late for everything – but much too early for death.”
Who was Marilyn Monroe?
What does she and her films mean to each new generation?
And why and how did she die so young?
For starters, obviously, first, last and always, Marilyn was uniquely beautiful, and tragically vulnerable.
As the songs say, and the continuing parade of documentaries show, her voluptuous yet seemingly accessible and innocent image established her as the blonde bombshell against which all others have, and will be measured, and for some time to come.
She was unquestionably the sex goddess of the twentieth century.
So she wasn’t the most photographed woman in the history of creation for nothing.
Our eyes go straight to her in any still photo, and in every movie scene, too.
Those external features are simply remarkable, and demand attention.
Our hearts are drawn to her as well, as soon as we learn anything about her true life story.
She was the little girl who never knew her father, and whose unstable mother was institutionalized.
“I never lived with my mother,” Marilyn revealed in her final interview.
As a child, nobody wanted her. She lived in foster homes.
“The whole world was always closed to me,” she lamented.
That is, until she turned eleven.
Then, to her everlasting astonishment, everybody wanted her.
What to make of that?
She could never reconcile such extremes in her extraordinary life, or make sense of what happened, or why.
She was suddenly this model, and then starlet, who all alone, overcame enormous odds, fighting up hill, to become a movie queen, and marry baseball immortal Joe DiMaggio, in what was surely a storybook romance.
Wasn’t it? Storybook? The happily-ever-after kind?
It seemed so, if ever so briefly. Because then, just as suddenly, it all unraveled. Her final movie was called SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE. So it did. Like her life, she never got to finish it. Hers is an irresistible story, from poignant, disadvantaged childhood innocence, to spectacular success in Hollywood, to tragic, early death. In her wake has come an ever-growing library of books, each telling – but many only inventing -- Marilyn’s inside story, and naturally exploiting her sexual escapades, too. In fact if one is to believe every new “as told to” Hollywood biography written over the past half-century, was there ever anyone pictured in the ACADEMY PLAYERS DIRECTORY back then that she didn’t have sex with? “They took it, they grabbed it, and they ran,” she said. If the poor woman herself could not make sense of what happened in her life, how is anyone else supposed to? Yet so many try, with no let up in sight. Maybe only one thing is certain. With all the pinup shots taken by master photographers, and such classic movies as ALL ABOUT EVE, THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH, and SOME LIKE IT HOT -- where Marilyn will presumably live forever on screen -- though she left us as a young woman decades ago, it is not likely that her story and her iconic image will even begin to fade from public consciousness. Not for many generations to come, if ever. That combination of innocence and vulnerability together with the kind of world class, luminous sensuality Marilyn had, will doubtless continue to transcend time and cultural barriers. So far, from this remove, it certainly looks that way. And if for no other reason than her looks are that way. Actor and stage director Lee Strasberg, in his eulogy, made this observation: “Marilyn Monroe was a legend. In her own lifetime she created a myth of what a poor girl from a deprived background could attain. For the entire world she became a symbol of the eternal feminine.” My own favorite Monroe film, and the only one I would happily revisit regularly, is acclaimed director Billy Wilder’s SEVEN YEAR ITCH. And there is also one documentary I find endlessly rewarding. Unfortunately few have seen it, nor are audiences likely to see it. Entitled MARILYN ON MARILYN, it offers the real Marilyn Monroe, or Norma Jean Baker, speaking in her own voice, not in character, without affectation, explaining herself, or at least trying to. No other voice is heard but hers. To me, it was an incredible revelation -- undiluted Marilyn, for an hour. Any framing information is supplied via silent film-type text titles. This documentary was made in 2001 by Paul Kerr of October Films, for the BBC. But the superb music choices (lots from Artie Shaw’s band) and the visuals – mostly rare, candid, and previously unseen footage -- were cleared for use only by the BBC. Limited territorial and media clearances up front makes for limited exposure subsequently, which is a shame for such a fascinating work. So the show won’t be on American television, or sold on DVD. During her lifetime, Marilyn gave precious few broadcast or filmed interviews. So there is little to draw upon for use in documentaries. Others speak. Not Marilyn, herself. Her real voice, the way she really spoke, is absent in those films. Plus most of her movies offer only a uniform character she played. In time Marilyn Monroe became a caricature of herself on screen. But following the debacle of SOMETHING’S GOT TO GIVE, Marilyn needed to get a story out there, to defend herself, to explain herself. She was desperate; it looked like her movie career was over (and it was). She had something to sell and sought a forum. She arranged for what turned out to be audio-taped interviews with writers from LIFE magazine and FRENCH MARIE CLAIRE. Her transcribed remarks were published within weeks, but not before she died. Then the tapes with her voice were locked away. MARILYN ON MARILYN is an illustrated compilation of these interviews. One hears her, but cannot see her say the words. It is like eavesdropping near a psychiatrist’s couch. Marilyn’s comments are arranged chronologically to tell the story of who she was, how she got that way, what she tried to do about it, and what it all meant – at least through the broken prism of her own eyes, and her quite selective memory. By design, to protect herself, there is plenty she fails to mention. Which doesn’t make the documentary any less fascinating. Everything in the film is understated. Marilyn speaks in simple declarative sentences. She speaks slowly, clearly, beautifully, almost in perfect prose, surprisingly without verbal crutches the way alleged stars do today. She explains calmly what some would see as the train wreck of her life, because it was all normal … for her. She had no other, comparative experience. So everything makes some kind of sense -- at least to her. There are plenty of pauses in between her remarks. And one after another, hearing the facts of her life in this way, it’s like being struck between the eyes with a blunt instrument. Even if things are not really so clear to Marilyn, as she speaks, they do come into unnerving focus for us. As movie fans, we can all relate to her story about time and again being parked in a movie theater as a child. Just parked there. Alone. She was once a movie fan just like everyone else. Only the theater she went to happened to have been no less than Graumann’s Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Norma Jean Baker was raised in Los Angeles. She talks about being sent inside and watching the idols she dreamt about, especially Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. All day. And what she thought, as she watched. Marilyn explained she was supposed to come out when it got dark, but of course in a movie theater one can never see when it gets dark outside. She says that. Hearing this, and other matter of fact observations, one realizes that abandonment is a silent, sinister form of child abuse she sustained. She speaks about fame, and her own celebrity and sexuality. “It’s nice to be included in other people’s fantasies,” Marilyn stated, “but you also like to be accepted for your own values at that given time.” In view of the way she looked – both a blessing and a curse -- and what she’d done with her life, was that ever going to happen? Sadly, maybe she concluded, no, it was not. Perhaps, in retrospect, in 2007, her real fans today do accept Marilyn Monroe for her values, as well as her externals. One would like to hope so. In her final interview, in words one can hear her speak in this documentary, she explains, “I want to say, that if I am a star, the people made me a star. There was no studio, and no person … but the people did it. It was a reaction that came in, to the studio. I mean, fan mail … you can’t imagine. When (the people) go to see a movie, they judge, for themselves.” Today, tomorrow, and for a long time to come, everyone knows the verdict. -- Richard W. Bann --
O que eu penso de tudo isto?
Poor Marilyn, pobre Marityn, teve o mundo aos seus pés, poder, dinheiro, beleza e fama, mas nunca teve o mais importante: O Amor dos homens que a usaram e não conheceu o maior Amor, o de Deus que podia curar o abandono que sofreu na infância...para que pudesse ser feliz em sua vida!
Sim eu diria pobre Marilyn Monroe...lendo sobre sua vida eu me lembrei de um versículo da Bíblia:
"De que vale ao homem ganhar o mundo inteiro se vier a perder a sua alma?"
Fortis est ut mors dilectio
O amor é forte como a morte.
Isso é o que diz essa frase latina.
Um momento de reflexão através desta poesia:
Sonho sem fim
Às vezes o mundo apresenta-se como um sonho sem fim.
Entre brumas e faíscas num ciclo místico de solidão e medo.
Medo de acordar, descobrindo que tudo é um vazio da consciência.
Ver cada fragmento da realidade como partes insignificantes dessa falsa vida.
Pois vivemos presos aos nossos próprios cadáveres, só esperando o renascer de uma nova vida que nunca se realiza.
Tristeza que não me consola.
Mas o que irá me consolar nesse mundo em que a miséria e a podridão dos seres humanos fazem a felicidade ser um elemento do nosso inconsciente onírico?
Mais uma viagem numa manhã ensolarada de inverno olhando o jardim através da janela do meu "bureau" caseiro em meu "Lar doce Lar"
Andar pela rua muito despreocupado.
Ter uma liberdade só sua, sem olhar para o lado.
Mostrar para o vizinho qualquer coisa minha.
Sem sentir que estou sozinho, ao despertar uma inveja mesquinha.
Nunca ter uma doença respiratória, estando sempre saudável.
Numa sociedade meritória de um meio-ambiente agradável.
Homens conscientes que governem com integridade.
Não sendo benevolentes com qualquer corrupção.
O amor com o seu verdadeiro significado.
Não ser, ao dinheiro, comparado.
No entanto, tudo que escrevi é visto como utopia.
Porque o mundo que eu vi, ignora a poesia.
Obs.:
Dedico a todos aqueles que querem viver poeticamente.
Um abraço de um poeta em seu momento taciturno...
Cá entre Nós prá terminar...
A PARÁBOLA DO RICO INSENSATO:"E disse-lhe um da multidão: Mestre, dize a meu irmão que reparta comigo a herança.Mas ele lhe disse: Homem, quem me pôs a mim por juiz ou repartidor entre vós?E disse-lhes: ACAUTELAI-VOS e GUARDAI-VOS DA AVAREZA, porque a vida de qualquer não consiste na abundância do que possui.E propôs-lhes uma PARÁBOLA, dizendo: a herdade de um HOMEM RICO tinha produzido com abundância.E arrazoava ele entre si, dizendo: Que farei? Não tenho onde recolher os meus frutos.E disse: Farei isto: derribarei os meus CELEIROS, e edificarei OUTROS MAIORES, e ali recolherei todas as minhas novidades e OS MEUS BENS;e direi à MINHA ALMA: Alma, tens EM DEPÓSITO MUITOS BENS, para muitos anos; descansa, come, bebe e folga.Mas DEUS LHE DISSE: LOUCO, esta noite te pedirão a TUA ALMA, e o que tens preparado para quem será?Assim é aquele que para si AJUNTA TESOUROS e NÃO É RICO PARA COM DEUS."
(Evangelho de Lucas, Capítulo 12, vers. 13 a 21)
Shalom!Sallam!
Regina Araujo
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