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It's hard to know where to start
if you don't start with the truth.
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I was in debt.
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I got so far behind on the rent.
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Four weeks.
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Tom Kelley asked me to pose.
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It was an offer for "artistic"
shots,
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which was a euphemism for nude
photographs.
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Modelling in the nude will pay
double what regular modelling will.
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Our world is
a business of women's bodies,
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and she realised this is
a transaction.
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Phew...
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Magnificent.
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SHE CHUCKLES
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The female power that she's
harnessed is phenomenal.
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She's arching her back
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and her arm is up to create
beautiful lines, beautiful angles.
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They look like 19th-century nudes.
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She wasn't afraid of showing off her
body,
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which was a great body.
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But it's easy to forget what
a conservative country America was.
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Nude modelling was not
considered respectable.
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It could have ended her career.
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MARILYN: I said, "Are you
sure they won't recognise me?"
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He said, "I promise."
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This is Hollywood.
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It is a symbol for magic,
entertainment, and make-believe.
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After Love Happy, Marilyn thought
she was on the brink of stardom.
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She's done it, she's there.
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CINEMATIC FANFARE PLAYS
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But it doesn't happen.
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It's like Marilyn is just
another blonde girl.
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But one thing that all the great
movie stars shared
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was determination.
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So of course she went back and
tried again.
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A savvy 23-year-old Marilyn is
preparing for a photoshoot.
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Marilyn was out of contract,
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and so she decided that she needed
strategy to get her noticed.
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I love this picture of her
in a two-piece bathing suit
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and this funky little dog.
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She's looking down and going,
"OK!"
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But she looks fantastic.
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She was just freewheeling,
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you know, in every sense.
Just letting rip and having fun.
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The shoot is taking place
at the home of Marilyn's first major
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movie agent, Johnny Hyde.
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Johnny Hyde was one of the most
powerful agents in Hollywood.
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Marilyn wanted respect.
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She wanted somebody to say,
"You can be a star."
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And Johnny Hyde gave her that
affirmation.
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She loves to
be in front of the camera.
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It's all coming from up here.
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She's staging it, and the
photographer, he's clicking it.
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I can't imagine him saying,
"Oh, hang on to that tree.
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"Put your legs up."
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It's just like,
"Follow the Yellow Brick Road."
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Follow Marilyn,
and you'll get the shot.
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She seemed to really have an
intimate understanding
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of what the camera needed from her.
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She used whatever she could to try
to get herself
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in the best position possible to be
hired by these studios.
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Not only is Johnny her agent -
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he fell for Marilyn
hook, line, and sinker.
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Moving into his mansion while she
was in her 20s and he was in his 50s
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was...convenient for her,
and shrewd.
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But she did seem to also genuinely
really care for him.
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They were both taking things from it
professionally as well
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as personally.
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Johnny had a heart condition.
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He wanted to marry her.
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He wanted to give her his money.
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But she would not take it.
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She doesn't want to be
seen as this gold-digger.
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She's determined to become a star.
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Johnny secures Marilyn
an audition at 20th Century Fox
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for director Joseph Mankiewicz's
new film, All About Eve.
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There's about a dozen other aspiring
starlets for this tiny walk-on role,
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and Mankiewicz later
claims that Marilyn
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just blows everyone out of the
water.
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Here is Marilyn Monroe
in a magnificent line-up of
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big-name stars, and she's given a
very small but key role.
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Mankiewicz shoots her
coming up the stairs.
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Bette Davis is in the shot.
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I distinctly remember, Addison,
crossing you off my guest list.
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What are you doing here?
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Bette Davis. That's why we're in the
movie house,
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that's why we bought the popcorn.
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But he's got the camera directed
right at Marilyn.
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You remember Miss Casswell?
I do not. How do you do?
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We've never met. Maybe that's why.
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Miss Casswell is an actress.
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Now, who the hell is she?
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He shoots her coming into our life.
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You see that man?
That's Max Fabian...
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She's given a showcase moment.
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Why do they always
look like unhappy rabbits?
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Cos that's what they are.
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The question is, when you
get in there, can you do it?
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And right in that star-studded cast,
she delivers it.
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Oh, waiter?
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That isn't a waiter, my dear.
That's a butler.
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Well, I can't yell,
"Oh, butler," can I?
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Maybe somebody's name is Butler.
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I think her role in All About Eve,
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that's the beginning,
really, of her.
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She looks and talks like the
Monroe we would come to know.
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Now THERE'S something a girl could
make sacrifices for.
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There's something about Marilyn
that makes you feel as
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if you can reach out to the screen
and actually touch flesh.
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I don't want to make trouble.
All I want is a drink.
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It's the blonde hair,
it's the beautiful mouth,
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the yield in her body.
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Thank you, Mr Fabian.
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Well done.
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I can see your career
rising in the East like the sun.
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I am happy to announce that the
winner is...
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..All About Eve.
APPLAUSE
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Despite All About Eve's Best
Picture win at the Oscars,
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the head of 20th Century Fox,
Darryl Zanuck,
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still doesn't see Marilyn's
potential.
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Zanuck never likes her.
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He never thinks she's
much of an actress.
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Sometimes the way that women look
overpowers our ability to see
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they are very gifted
with a lot to offer beyond that.
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He simply couldn't see that
Marilyn could be anything
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other than a pretty face.
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But Johnny Hyde persuades Zanuck to
give her another shot.
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It's the final thing Johnny Hyde
does for Marilyn.
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Days later,
he died from his heart problems.
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Marilyn was extremely upset.
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He was the only person who had
believed in her
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for her whole career.
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All of a sudden,
she was on her own again
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and wondering what's going
to happen next.
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Oh, good morning, Mr McKinley.
Good morning, Harriet.
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Bring in your book and the mail.
Yes, Mr McKinley.
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As Young As You Feel is not a very
good movie by any standard, and
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Marilyn has very little to do in it
except stand around and look pretty.
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I'd like some coffee, dear.
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Yes, Mr McKinley.
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This could be Marilyn's last chance
to impress Darryl Zanuck
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and prove her worth to the studio.
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Well, anyhow, Mr Cleveland, I want
you to know
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I think your speech was grand.
I felt real honour just to hear it.
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She's memorable. She's given a
notice in, I believe,
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the New York Times calling her
superb.
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It's really just
kind of the patriarchy praising
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the patriarchy, you know?
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"Yes, this is how we like our women.
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"We like them objectified."
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And she was excellent at being
objectified.
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Darryl Zanuck said,
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"When I look at her,
I don't see star."
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But he was a shrewd businessman, and
he saw the potential to make money.
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At the start of the '50s,
around 80% of moviegoers are women,
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and Zanuck wants to draw in the men.
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You'll sneak a thousand
wolf whistles at Harriet.
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You know, as a rule,
I never mix business and pleasure.
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The new obsession in the
'50s is very much with
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the hourglass-shaped woman.
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Marilyn speaks to fantasy, and a big
part of that is her bust size,
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her waist size, her - as they called
it often in magazines of the time -
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her chassis.
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Zanuck signs Marilyn up to
a seven-year contract with Fox.
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Everybody in the business at that
time wanted a studio contract.
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It meant you were in the door.
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You had a chance.
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But the bad thing about the
contract was you really were owned,
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in a sense, by the studio.
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You had to play the roles
they wanted.
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So, you know, you were in a box.
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Marilyn Monroe, Miss Cheesecake
herself...
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In the first year of her new
contract,
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Marilyn appears in seven films.
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What do you say we have dinner
together? Wonderful. Where?
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Oh, someplace where we don't have to
dress, like...
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..your apartment.
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She was doing a lot of bikini shots
and small roles as gold-diggers.
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Marilyn's swimsuits are changing,
but the roles are not.
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Honey, you're not even human,
you're just a living doll.
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Nice to have met you, Mrs Denham.
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Hollywood is packaging her as T'n'A.
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Accessible, nonthreatening.
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The sexism of Hollywood is
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so appalling and disgusting.
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And it's a very scary thing to
think about,
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because we still see it
to this day.
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One time, a very wonderful director
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said I had no ambition, that was my
problem.
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But I would like very much to
be a fine actress.
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She wanted to get ahead,
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she was determined, and she had to
have strategy to do that.
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She hangs out with the publicists
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to learn how to do publicity and
then becomes better than they are.
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Marilyn develops her sexy on-screen
persona to become an even
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larger-than-life celebrity.
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She would arrive at a party late to
make people notice her,
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in some impossibly tight dress
that she could barely walk in,
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and she would cause a stir.
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She realised, "People want to come
snap pictures of me.
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"People want to know about me."
She was sort of an
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original Kardashian in that way.
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She created a narrative
that was visual.
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She would have been
huge on Instagram.
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Like, the biggest
influencer of all time.
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She could look even
beautiful in a potato sack.
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She had a wonderful sense of
humour.
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She held up a mirror to the viewer,
saying,
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"This is what you consider sexy,
huh?
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"OK, here it is.
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"How am I doing?"
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CROWD CHEERS
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Even though she was playing
these small roles on screen,
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there was a lot of interest in her,
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so it was a stepping stone
towards stardom.
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Marilyn's fame explodes after
the press is tipped off that
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she's dating a Major League
star...
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..Joe DiMaggio.
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Joe hits safely in 56 consecutive
ballgames.
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The Yankee Clipper was a magician
with a 40-ounce bat.
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A lot of people said it was
a publicity stunt.
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It very possibly was
a publicity stunt.
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You leverage somebody else's
stardom to add to your own.
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Dating Joe DiMaggio was a very
smart thing to do.
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He was one of the most famous
heroes in the United States.
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Marilyn is flooded with
thousands of fan letters every week.
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But as her fame grows,
the past comes back to haunt her.
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Early on in 1952,
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the nude photographs Marilyn
took as an anonymous model
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gained popularity
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and started popping up in gas
stations and all over the place.
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Soon people began to make
the connection -
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"Is this the actress
Marilyn Monroe?"
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Everyone said to Marilyn, "You've
got an up-and-coming career.
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"If this is true,
it will absolutely ruin you."
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I remember in 1952,
I was just out of high school
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and Marilyn Monroe was famous.
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Everybody was like,
"Uh-oh, her career's over."
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Reports of Marilyn's nude photos
reach Fox studio head Darryl Zanuck.
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Marilyn was hauled into Zanuck's
office to account for herself.
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And she was put in front of,
you know,
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all of the powerful male
studio heads.
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They said,
"Did you pose for a calendar?"
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And I said, "Yes, anything wrong?"
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For 20th Century Fox, it wasn't
about, "We really think sin is bad."
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It was like, "Wait a minute,
sin might be bad for business."
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Posing nude was such an explosive
thing.
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There was great anxiety.
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Everyone said, "Say you didn't."
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I said, "But I did," you know?
"I should say that I did."
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And they were very unhappy.
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The studios thought her career
would be over.
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But Marilyn devises a
high-stakes plan -
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to let the public decide her fate.
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Aline Mosby is a very big
journalist at that point in time,
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and a lot of people read her.
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It's my understanding she
was
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already somewhat sympathetic
to Marilyn.
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Marilyn seeks out Mosby in the
powder room and confides in her.
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I was in debt.
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I always supported myself.
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No-one else ever supported me
in my life.
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I had no family, and, um...
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..and I had no place to go.
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Crucially, what she also says is,
"I have nothing to be ashamed of.
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"I've done nothing wrong."
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Mosby publishes their private
conversation,
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and the news is picked up by every
wire service in the country.
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Everybody was waiting to hear
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what she was going to say
when it was exposed.
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Marilyn's decision to own her nude
photoshoot calendar is brave,
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it's bold, it's very modern.
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It was her taking ownership of her
own body back, right?
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And it was her saying, "This
actually doesn't belong to you.
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"It belongs to me."
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It was a genuinely risky move,
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and Marilyn didn't know
how it would play out.
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She was rolling the dice with her
career in very real terms.
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She gave an honest, forthright
response....
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..and it was embraced by the public.
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CROWD CHEERS
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Once people learned more about her
life, anything that might have been
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considered questionable
was almost wiped clean.
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What are you going to do
if she's not showing any shame?
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You can't go, "How dare you?!"
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Marilyn's honesty pays off,
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and Life magazine features her on
the cover.
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Life magazine - it's a true
publishing empire.
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I mean, we're talking seriously
pre-eminent magazine.
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And so to put her on the cover,
it is giving the stamp of approval.
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A nude calendar scandal really put
Marilyn in the vanguard
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of the sexual revolution.
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Marilyn is now a household name,
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and Darryl Zanuck casts her in her
biggest role yet.
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Niagara was really
a breakthrough role for Marilyn.
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It was her first bona fide
lead in an A-list film.
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In Niagara, they stressed her
sexuality.
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I mean, that's what people went
to the cinema to see.
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They wanted to see the low-cut
dresses,
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the parted lips and smouldering
eyes.
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Hey. Get out the fire hose.
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When she comes out in that
shocking pink deal,
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it's like, "This is a creature that
is quite spectacular."
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When we see her today,
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that's Marilyn Monroe as we
imagine her, the full sexuality.
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What about it, lady?
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Better not.
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She walked away, swinging back
and forth in that suggestive way.
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It was like, "Wow! What's going on?"
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It was a shift in the consciousness.
I remember feeling that.
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She goes to the Miss America pageant
in Atlantic City
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and wears this very, very low-cut
dress down to her navel.
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It's JLo before there was JLo.
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We are all born special creatures.
Thank God.
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To see a woman that is
so in charge of her sexuality
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is extremely empowering.
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Marilyn is owning her sexuality.
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But soon, others will exploit it.
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My name is Hugh Hefner,
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and I'm editor-publisher of
Playboy magazine.
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In December 1953,
Marilyn inadvertently makes history.
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She ended up being the first cover
and centrefold of Playboy.
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Marilyn had been paid 50 bucks for
the photoshoot four years earlier.
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And on the back of those nude
photographs,
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Hugh Hefner launched an empire.
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Technically, Hugh Hefner
did nothing wrong,
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since she had signed away her
rights to that image.
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Ethically, not consulting her,
it's really problematic.
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I mean, it is... It's
exploitation, in my mind.
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Putting those pictures
in the centrefold put
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a layer of shame back onto
the photos that Marilyn had
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insisted she was not going to
be ashamed of.
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Every copy of Playboy sells out.
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Marilyn has become a sensation.
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Marilyn Monroe is filming her
biggest-budget movie to date,
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the musical comedy
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
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Look! Did you ever? Anywhere?
Anything like it?
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She plays gold-digger Lorelei Lee.
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May I just hold it for a minute?
Of course.
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The performance of Lorelei is
a really important milestone.
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How do you put it around your neck?
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You don't, lovey,
it goes on your head.
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It was crucial in the evolution
of Marilyn's career
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and her star persona,
because Lorelei's the dumb blonde
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who's not as dumb as you
think she is.
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Say, they told me you were stupid.
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You don't sound stupid to me.
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I can be smart when it's important,
but most men don't like it.
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That line was Marilyn's line.
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She insisted on using it.
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She's like, "Here's what this
stereotypical dumb blonde is
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"really able to do, and doing."
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And so, she's riffing on it.
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I'm too old for this sort of thing.
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If you are able to not only be in on
the joke of it but to control it,
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that, to me, is the mark of a
genius.
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# A kiss on the hand may be quite
continental
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# But diamonds are a girl's
best friend... #
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Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
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is Lorelei's defence against the
accusation of gold digging.
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It is simply laying out
sexual economics.
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# Diamonds... #
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If men can look at me
and want me for my looks,
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why can't I want
men for their money?
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It's the same thing, really.
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# I don't mean rhinestones... #
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This is Marilyn Monroe at her peak.
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# Diamonds
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# Are a girl's best... #
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It's still one of the most imitated
moments in film history.
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# Living in a material world... #
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# A kiss on the hand may be quite
continental... #
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# But diamonds are a girl's
best friend... #
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# Diamonds are a girl's best
friend... #
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# Best friend. #
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
tops the box office.
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With the success of
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,
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there is definitely a connection
between Lorelei Lee on screen
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and Marilyn as a star.
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If you happen to have blonde hair,
you're considered dumb.
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I don't know why that is. It's
very...
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I think it's a very limited view.
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Marilyn!
APPLAUSE
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People thought Marilyn wasn't acting
because she was a great actor,
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but also she's playing a stupid,
dumb blonde woman.
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So it can't be an act because
that's how women are, aren't they?
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Well, there isn't much difference,
Marilyn. You're 25, and...
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..I'm 39.
LAUGHTER
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Yes, but what about 25 years
from now,
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when I'm 50 and you're 39?
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LAUGHTER
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Gee.
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It suited men to believe that she
was dumb, because it's
unchallenging.
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Because I can't trust
myself with you.
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And the supremacy of male
intelligence
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and male capability, at that
time, was huge.
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You're so strong, and I'm so weak.
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She's subverting our expectations
and showing you,
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"Oh, I know what you think about me,
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"and I'm going to use that against
you to get what I want."
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Men's assumptions about women
are challenged in 1953
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when Dr Alfred Kinsey
published his results
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from the largest-ever sex survey.
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The Kinsey Report revolutionised
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how people understood women's
sexuality...
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..and made more and more people
realise that women were
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sexual beings in a way that they had
not realised before.
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That women were having extramarital
affairs,
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that about 40% of women had had
sex before marriage.
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And people were shocked about this.
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Women had orgasms.
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"Really? Oh, my God!
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"We didn't know they enjoyed it!"
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Kinsey came along and made
scientific what Marilyn was
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kind of demonstrating on the movie
screen every week.
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So Marilyn is a rebel.
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She is a forerunner to the very
sexual decades
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of the '60s and into the '70s.
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Whatever anybody else thought,
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Marilyn Monroe knew that she was
more than just a pretty face.
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She knew that she had all of these
other gifts that she could offer.
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She knew that she was funny.
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And so she took every opportunity
that she could get to show that.
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You've got the most peculiar vision
I ever saw. Why do you say that?
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Because you're reading that
book upside down.
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But I'm no such thing.
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Not you, the book.
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You see that she really was
a brilliant all-around actress.
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Oh.
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You know, her eyes would just do
something,
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and she was just so comedically
gifted.
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This way, please.
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She began to understand that
comedy could be one of her powers...
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This way, my dear.
I'm so sorry.
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..and that the way she could fuse it
with sex would be her unique brand.
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There are not many Hollywood
actresses of that era that
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combined clear physical
attractiveness
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and physical comedy of a
slapstick style
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like she does in
How To Marry A Millionaire,
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where she's a bit blind
and keeps running into walls.
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The movie is Marilyn's
third hit of 1953,
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earning Fox a total of $15 million -
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the equivalent of 150 million today.
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She was a star then.
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She got first billing in that movie.
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So she made it.
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A few weeks later, production is due
to start on Marilyn's next
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film for Fox,
The Girl In Pink Tights.
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Darryl Zanuck wanted to continue to
place her
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in light-hearted musical comedies.
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Pink Tights was pretty one note,
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and she didn't want to be
stereotyped.
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She literally labelled it "trash".
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She also discovered that her
co-star, Frank Sinatra,
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was being paid more than three times
as much as she was,
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and she was furious.
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The consciousness has been
for centuries that men are
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worth more than women.
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She was the main attraction.
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I mean, she was the reason that
people flocked to the theatre.
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So it was insane that she wasn't
given a much more
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power position in terms of salary.
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It was time to put her foot
in the ground and say, "No more."
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And she decided just to
not show up to work.
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This was an early
instance of Time's Up.
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For anyone who thinks Monroe was
a perpetual victim,
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she walked off the set of
Pink Tights.
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Enough said.
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Romance that thrills the world -
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the marriage of Marilyn Monroe
and Joe DiMaggio.
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After two years of dating,
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Marilyn and Joe's marriage
captivates the nation.
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Just because it began as a publicity
stunt doesn't mean that they
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couldn't have fallen in love and had
a real relationship after that.
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It does seem to have been
what happened.
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He has a very sensitive
nature in many respects.
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When he was young,
he had a very difficult time.
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So he understood some
things about me,
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and I understood some
things about him.
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NEWSREEL: There's no surprise in the
fact that it attracted a record
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crowd to the San Francisco Court
where the ceremony was performed.
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There were hundreds of reporters.
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00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,720
I think we can assume that Joe
didn't tip them off
483
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,480
because he hated all that stuff.
484
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,760
The story was that actually it was
Marilyn who called up the
485
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:11,120
journalists. She recognised that
this was an opportunity.
486
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,480
She was very savvy about the media.
487
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,120
She knew she needed the media, and
the media knew that she needed them.
488
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,880
NEWSREEL: And now, after
congratulations, they were off on
their honeymoon.
489
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,840
Marilyn refuses to work until
20th Century Fox improves her pay
490
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,280
and conditions.
491
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,600
And now she has more leverage.
492
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:33,880
Marilyn was now Mrs Joe DiMaggio.
493
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,440
She was suddenly on the front pages.
494
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,200
So it did her a lot of favours,
495
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,840
because the studios could not brush
her under the carpet.
496
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:50,200
Joe was in Japan for the start of
the baseball season.
497
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,320
NEWSREEL: Mrs Joe DiMaggio - Marilyn
Monroe, that is -
498
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:54,920
arrives with Joe in Tokyo.
499
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:59,080
He was really supposed to be
the star of this trip.
500
00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:05,120
It's clear the Japanese people want
to see her much more than DiMaggio.
501
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,160
Joe, he's the forgotten man,
which is something in Japan,
502
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,360
where baseball is so popular.
503
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,600
Joe DiMaggio was quite
old-fashioned in his beliefs.
504
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:17,760
He wanted a nice, old-fashioned
wife.
505
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,560
And, you know, he didn't get one.
506
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,120
I was married when I was 18,
stupidly.
507
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:30,560
And I said, "Well, I'm not going to
do any cooking or cleaning.
508
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:32,520
"I'm working."
509
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:37,040
I got berated that I was not a
"real woman".
510
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,200
It seems clear that Joe DiMaggio
expected Marilyn to stop working.
511
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,920
It's less clear that
Marilyn ever had any
512
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,920
intention of fulfilling that
expectation.
513
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,240
On their second day in Tokyo,
Marilyn gets an unexpected offer.
514
00:31:57,320 --> 00:32:02,080
In 1954, the United States still
has 330,000 troops in Korea...
515
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,080
..because they're concerned about
containing
516
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,280
the spread of the Soviet
sphere of influence.
517
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,920
She was asked to entertain
the troops...
518
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,480
..and she jumped at the opportunity.
519
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,840
Servicemen were a big
part of making her a star,
520
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,800
and she wanted to pay it back.
521
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,920
She goes to Korea, and DiMaggio
gets angry.
522
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,960
The only thing that
I have to complain about is
523
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,600
I haven't seen very much of Marilyn
as she is touring through the camps.
524
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:46,400
And so maybe after that wait, we
will be able to spend a little time.
525
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:51,240
He felt that once they were married,
her sexual appeal belonged to him.
526
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,520
But it doesn't seem to have
occurred to him that it
527
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,120
might have been Marilyn's.
528
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,840
She goes to something like ten
locations
529
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,960
with 10,000 men at each location.
530
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,480
And the troops go crazy.
531
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,640
Watching the footage of Marilyn
in Korea really
532
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,040
puts in the spotlight how
much more
533
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,640
politically involved and aware
and cognisant she was,
534
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:24,240
and also an immense sense of care
for other human beings.
535
00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,120
It just radiates out of her.
536
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,720
It was snowing,
it was freezing cold.
537
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,160
She had this teeny-tiny
spaghetti strap dress on.
538
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,760
But she was determined that she was
going to entertain these GIs.
539
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:40,680
# A kiss may be grand
540
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,480
# But it won't pay the rental on
your humble... #
541
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,320
She said, "Hey, guys,
you've made me who and what I am,
542
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:47,840
"and here I am, doing this for you."
543
00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:51,440
# Men grow cold as girls grow old
544
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,720
# And we all lose our charms
in the end... #
545
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:59,480
It's her taking charge of her
persona and using it in a deliberate
546
00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,000
and generous way.
547
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,960
# Diamonds are a girl's best
friend. #
548
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,240
The highlight of my life was
singing for the soldiers there.
549
00:34:13,240 --> 00:34:15,880
I stood out on an open stage,
and it was cold,
550
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,120
but I swear I didn't feel
a thing except good.
551
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:27,040
Going onstage in front of 100,000
screaming fans is a different
552
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:31,200
kind of affirmation
of your popularity.
553
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:35,480
She gets incredible publicity
over the Korean tour.
554
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:37,440
NEWSREEL: The blonde movie star wows
them
555
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,360
and the candid cameras go into
action.
556
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,800
And at that point, I think Zanuck
just gives up. He can't stop her.
557
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:50,720
20th Century Fox relents and gives
Marilyn a significant pay raise.
558
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:55,440
But as famous and wealthy
and beautiful as she was,
559
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,920
respect really is the one thing
that she's craving.
560
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,240
When Marilyn arrived in New York to
film with Billy Wilder on
561
00:35:10,240 --> 00:35:12,960
The Seven Year Itch, there was
a huge reaction.
562
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:18,720
You could see how loved she was
by people
563
00:35:18,720 --> 00:35:23,400
because of the size of the crowds
that followed her wherever she went.
564
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,440
I understand there's some fabulous
location shots going to be
565
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:30,160
made next Saturday night,
walking over the subway grating
566
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,080
and a gust of wind catches you
and so forth.
567
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,920
I imagine you'll stop
traffic on Saturday night.
568
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:39,560
Well, I'm looking forward to
working in it very much.
569
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,280
This wasn't about filming a movie.
570
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,000
This was about publicising an
event.
571
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:49,160
I was there.
572
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:52,320
All of us went.
573
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:57,080
It was late at night, and there
were photographers all around.
574
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,800
300, 400, they're on the roofs,
upper windows of the buildings.
575
00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:12,120
She and her co-star Tom Ewell
walk out of the movie theatre,
576
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,200
and she approaches a subway grating.
577
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,560
Oh, do you feel
the breeze from the subway?
578
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:19,840
Isn't it delicious?
579
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:28,760
Marilyn's friend, the photographer
Sam Shaw, is in the crowd.
580
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,320
His photos create history.
581
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:39,360
It's almost like she's saying,
"This one's for you, Sam."
582
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:44,120
She's playing to the photographer,
and she's really turning it on.
583
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:50,000
That is the image that most
people remember.
584
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,880
It's just an exhilarating moment
because you feel
585
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,760
it's something that's happening
accidentally, and yet it isn't.
586
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,400
It's a woman having fun
with her own body
587
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,720
and having a laugh to the camera.
588
00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:05,120
And I think that's why it's lasted
the test of time.
589
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,080
Ooh, here comes another one!
590
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,720
We thought it would be over
in a minute and a half.
591
00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:16,000
It was...two hours of craziness.
592
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:22,800
Billy Wilder shot
the scene 80 times to get one shot.
593
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,280
There's more and more cheering,
and reporters, gawkers,
594
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:34,960
and Marilyn at the centre of this
spectacle.
595
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:41,640
It's hard to separate the image of
self-possession and beauty from
596
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:45,000
feeling like she was getting
eaten alive by the press.
597
00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:50,320
And that is the pain of our
business.
598
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,800
You become a commodity to the world.
599
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,160
I was standing next to Joe.
600
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:00,760
After about the tenth...
601
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,480
..the skirt going up,
he began to tremble.
602
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:10,240
And I put my hand on his arm
and said, "Joe, it's just a movie.
603
00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:11,720
"It's not real."
604
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:13,640
And he said, "I realise that,
605
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:18,000
"but it's MY wife
showing off her panties."
606
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:23,040
Joe turned around and left.
607
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,360
We don't know what happened.
608
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,440
No-one was in her hotel room.
609
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,040
It was just Joe
and Marilyn that night.
610
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,480
There are stories that
DiMaggio beat her.
611
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,200
Those charges have never been proven
one way or the other,
612
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:40,720
and it's important to say that.
613
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:44,520
But the stories that were
told are certainly plausible.
614
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:48,040
Three weeks later,
their marriage is over.
615
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,920
Let me know, fellas,
when you gut the speed up.
616
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:55,320
Miss Monroe will have nothing
to say this morning.
617
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,720
All I can say as her attorney
is that this is what
618
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:02,560
we would say was
the conflict of careers.
619
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,320
The tears are just
streaming down her face.
620
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,440
Now somebody says,
"Oh, she's a good actress."
621
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,360
No, no, no, that was...
Those are real tears.
622
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,800
If domestic violence played a part
in the ending of her marriage,
623
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:26,400
that was not something that Marilyn
Monroe had the option of saying.
624
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,080
This is during an era in which
625
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:34,560
it was still seen as a husband's
prerogative to hit his wife.
626
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:38,240
Women are always considered
responsible.
627
00:39:38,240 --> 00:39:42,120
So Marilyn is very brave to go
through with the divorce.
628
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,640
Our marriage wasn't a happy one.
629
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,400
It ended in nine months,
unfortunately.
630
00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:51,440
And I don't know what else to say.
631
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,240
Marilyn returns to
work at Fox Studios.
632
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,680
But she just felt, under Zanuck's
leadership, her career was
633
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:07,240
going to flounder because the films
weren't going to be good.
634
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:10,240
She could not get
away from the typecasting.
635
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:15,760
She could see that the act was
starting to exploit her.
636
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,800
She needed to deconstruct what
she was doing
637
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,720
so that it wouldn't eat her alive.
638
00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:23,800
At the pinnacle of her success,
639
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,600
Marilyn Monroe walks
away from Hollywood.
640
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,280
It's astonishing that she
would do that.
641
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,240
She was flying without a net.
642
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:36,120
She was feeling her power,
643
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:41,080
and I think she wanted to see how
far she could push herself.
644
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,000
She had created Marilyn Monroe.
645
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,080
She had made Marilyn Monroe a star.
646
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:51,440
It was time to take Marilyn Monroe
on the next step of her journey.
647
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,360
Next, on Reframed: Marilyn Monroe...
648
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,000
She wanted control of her
own destiny.
649
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,680
People said she's
David against Goliath.
650
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:04,080
She was entering a new ring.
651
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,920
Bus Stop, it was very brave.
652
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:11,040
Marilyn had a fear of being
called a home-wrecker.
653
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,520
Arthur Miller is a risky
proposition,
654
00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,960
romantically and professionally,
for Marilyn.
655
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:20,080
He is a married man who was
subpoenaed by the US government.
656
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:22,040
Are you a member
of the Communist Party?
657
00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,280
She doesn't realise she's
heading into a storm.
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