Clash of Symbols

Biography

Following the Altar Boys split up, vocalist/guitarist Mike Stand formed the CCM quartet Clash of Icons, a hard rock-band with catchy pop melodies, similar to Weezer. Rob Goraieb (electric guitar, vocals), an ex-member from the music group just basic big, became a member of the group, as do Bob “The Greek” Wohler (bass, vocals), who was simply an associate of Breakfast time with Amy, Uthanda and CIA. Drummer Steve Latanation, the final person in the Icons to become listed on, previously played within the music group Brighton and toured with Bryan Duncan, Randy Stonehill, Rick Elias, NY in June among others. Clash of Icons provides released the EP Weekend Is an Entirely Different Proposition as well as the full-length debut Begging on the Temple Gate Known as Beautiful. The music group in addition has released a video bundle.

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#	Fact
1	Mentioned in Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire".
2	One of Hajime Sorayama's "Gynoids" is based on her iconic pose from "The Seven Year Itch".
3	Egypt banned all her films after her conversion to Judaism in 1956.
4	She is one of the Hollywood actors mentioned in The Kinks song "Celluloid Heroes".
5	Is one of 20 actresses who did not receive an Oscar nomination for their Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe-winning performance; hers being for Some Like It Hot (1959). The others, in chronological order, are: June Allyson for Too Young to Kiss (1951), Ethel Merman for Call Me Madam (1953), Jean Simmons for Guys and Dolls (1955), Taina Elg and Kay Kendall for Les Girls (1957), Rosalind Russell for A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962), Patty Duke for Me, Natalie (1969), Twiggy for The Boy Friend (1971), Raquel Welch for The Three Musketeers (1973), Barbra Streisand for A Star Is Born (1976), Bernadette Peters for Pennies from Heaven (1981), Kathleen Turner for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), Miranda Richardson for Enchanted April (1991), Jamie Lee Curtis for True Lies (1994), Nicole Kidman for To Die For (1995), Madonna for Evita (1996), Renée Zellweger for Nurse Betty (2000), Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), and Amy Adams for Big Eyes (2014).
6	Richard Widmark on co-starring with Monroe in "Don't Bother to Knock": "She was a vulnerable kid. Murder to work with because she was scared to death of acting - even when she became a big movie actress. We had a hell of a time getting her out of the dressing room. When it was five o'clock , it got irritating: 'C'mon, Marilyn, we want to go home!' She was a movie animal. Something happened between the lens and the film. Nobody knew what the hell it was. On the set, you'd think: 'Oh, this is impossible; you can't print this.' You'd see it, and she's got everyone backed off the screen. Olivier said the same thing. She had that phenomenal something! Nobody knows what it is, but she had it. She certainly was never a professional actress. She always had a coach with her, lurking in the background, giving her signals. And she could never remember three words in a row - so it was all piece-work. Beyond all the technical deficiencies, she was a nice girl. We got along fine.".
7	Played by Mary Hanson in Hollywood Mouth 2 (2014). The director of that film, Jordan Mohr, had portrayed Marilyn's rival Simone Signoret in the stage play "Two Simones: de Beauvoir and Signoret in Hollywood".
8	Was good friends with Judy Garland.
9	Director Billy Wilder was quoted as saying, "The great success of Monroe... was that she did not infuriate the female.".
10	"Goodbye, Charlie" with Debbie Reynolds and "The Stripper" with Joanne Woodward were originally slated by Fox as Monroe projects.
11	According to the book "Flesh and Fantasy" Monroe perfected a Vaseline-based lip gloss.
12	She campaigned to play the Maria Schell role in "The Brothers Karamazov," but she was never seriously considered.
13	Among roles that Monroe turned down under her Fox contract: "Pink Tights," "How To Be Very, Very Popular," "The Revolt of Mamie Stover," "The Girl in the Red velvet Swing,' "The Jean Harlow Story," "The Blue Angel," and "Can-Can.".
14	After working with Monroe in As Young as You Feel (1951) jealous co-star Constance Bennett wisecracked, "Now there's a broad with a future behind her!".
15	Although Monroe's famous nude calender grossed $750,000, the actress only got $50 and a bad cold out of it.
16	Ayn Rand wrote a powerful tribute to her, compiled in "The Voice of Reason".
17	Mentioned in the song "Tell me it's not true" from the musical "Blood Brothers".
18	According to Adam Curtis' "The Century of Self", Monroe was in the later years subjected to an experimental kind of therapy where she was forced to attend the rituals of an average family and then expected to model her self upon the experience. Arthur Miller commented in the same documentary "I don't think suffering is always a mistake".
19	She was scheduled for The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955), but she was thought too old at 30 when the character was supposed to be 17 so she was replaced with Joan Collins.
20	Film editor Dann Cahn recommended a young woman he was dating for the part of a beautiful young woman in Your Show Time (1949). Producer Stanley Rubin auditioned her and turned her down because she did not have enough experience. The young woman's name was Marilyn Monroe.
21	She had the same birthday (June 1) as her former sister-in-law Joan Copeland, the younger sister of her third husband Arthur Miller.
22	Learned to play the guitar for her role in River of No Return (1954) and the ukulele for her role in Some Like It Hot (1959).
23	Monroe was a stutterer, a little known fact that was easily covered thanks to studio vocal coaches who provided her with dictation lessons.
24	Was close friends with singer Ella Fitzgerald and helped her rise in her musical career by arranging for her to sing in many upscale nightclubs some of which were segregated during the time of their friendship.
25	Was a lifelong liberal Democrat.
26	Good friends with Milton H. Greene.
27	Ranked #3 in Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of all Time (2011).
28	Read and wrote poetry. Her favorite poets were Walt Whitman and John Keats.
29	Although she was an avid buyer of books and owned over 400 of them at her death, third husband Arthur Miller said, "Aside from Colette's Cheri and a few short stories, I had never known her to read anything all the way through. She felt she could get the idea of a book, and often did, in just a few pages.".
30	Became pregnant twice (in July 1957 and November 1958) during her marriage to Arthur Miller; on both occasions she suffered miscarriages.
31	Half-sister of Berniece and Robert Kermitt Baker (but she never knew him, because he died at 14) by her mother's side. Sister-in-law of Paris Miracle, aunt of Mona Rae Miracle.
32	Former stepmother of Robert A. Miller.
33	Although she was perhaps the most famous actress of the 1950s decade, she never made more than $100,000 per picture upfront. Actresses such as Elizabeth Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck were earning significantly more.
34	Was in consideration for the part of Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (1955), but Vivian Blaine was cast instead.
35	Her last film Something's Got to Give (1962), was finally released in 2003. In the swimming pool scene, Marilyn reveals much more to the camera than she did in her then controversial calendar photo from the early 1950s.
36	Featured in "Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film" by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (McFarland, 1998).
37	In 1961, after her divorce from Arthur Miller, she purchased a 2900 square foot hacienda style house in Brentwood, for $77,500.
38	"Time Magazine" reported in 1973 that Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi, the doctor who performed Monroe's autopsy, said that contrary to rumors, Monroe's stomach was never pumped after her death. The level of Nembutal in her bloodstream was 4.5 milligrams per 100, which is the equivalent of 40 or 50 capsules indicating suicide.
39	Nearly 11 years after her death, she appeared on the cover of the Tuesday, July 17th, 1973 edition of "Time Magazine" in a full-color portrait taken by Bert Stern, from the last photographic sitting before her death. The cover-story heralds the publication of "Marilyn," the biography of her by Norman Mailer. On the cover, her image dwarfs a black & white photo of Mailer. Mailer reportedly was displeased that "Time" chose to play up Monroe and diminish him, visually on the cover. The publication of the coffee table biography, which contained many photographs including several by Stern, was a major event of that publishing season. The book retailed for $19.95, which is approximately $100 in 2008 money, when factored for inflation.
40	There are over 600 books written about her.
41	Her personal library contained over 400 books on topics ranging from art to history, psychology, philosophy, literature, religion, poetry, and gardening. Many of the volumes, auctioned in 1999, bore her pencil notations in the margins.
42	She tried 9 different shades of blonde hair color before settling on platinum blonde.
43	When she married Joe DiMaggio, the couple moved into a home at 508 N. Palm Drive in Beverly Hills, that was next door to Jean Harlow's last home.
44	Producer Keya Morgan owns her Bible.
45	Spent most of her early childhood in foster homes and orphanages because her mother was committed to a mental institution. Later, she lived with her mother's best friend, Grace McKee, and her family. McKee, a big fan of Jean Harlow, allowed her to wear make-up and curl her hair and, when she was 15, it was McKee who pierced her ears for her using a sewing needle. At 16, when McKee could no longer take care of her, she got married to avoid returning to the orphanage.
46	In 1946, she signed her first studio contract with 20th Century Fox and dyed her hair.
47	Her classic shape, according to her dressmaker, is actually measured at 37-23-36.
48	She left Hollywood to pursue serious acting by studying under Lee Strasberg at his Actors' Studio in New York City.
49	Her "Happy Birthday Mr. President" dress sold for $1,267,500.00, a world record for the most expensive piece of clothing ever sold, and is in the Guinness Book of World Records.
50	She resided at the Hollywood Roosevelt while she was breaking into the acting business.
51	What a Way to Go! (1964) initially intended as a vehicle for her, Shirley MacLaine played Louisa May Foster instead. Producer Arthur P. Jacobs was her publicist and J. Lee Thompson was on her list of approved directors.
52	Was originally set to play Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), but Audrey Hepburn played the role instead.
53	Her lifelong bouts with depression and self-destruction took their toll during filming The Seven Year Itch (1955). She frequently muffed scenes and forgot her lines, leading to sometimes as many as 40 takes of a scene before a satisfactory result was produced. Her constant tardiness and behavioral problems made the budget of the film swell to $1.8 million, a high price for the time. The film still managed to make a nice profit. The classic shot of her dress blowing up around her legs as she stands over a subway grating in this film was originally shot on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue at 52nd St., On Wednesday, September 15th, 1954, at 1:00 a.m. Five thousand onlookers whistled and cheered through take after take as Marilyn repeatedly missed her lines. This occurred in presence of an increasingly embarrassed and angry Joe DiMaggio (her husband at the time; the nine-month-old marriage officially ended during the shooting of this film). The original footage shot on that night in New York never made it to the screen; the noise of the crowd had made it unusable. Director Billy Wilder re-shot the scene on the 20th Century-Fox lot, on a set replicating Lexington Avenue, and got a more satisfactory result. However, it took another 40 takes for Marilyn to achieve the famous scene. Amazingly, her very narrow spike heels don't get stuck or break in the subway grating, although this was a universal problem at the time for the countless women wearing that very popular style heel in New York City in that era. An important promotional campaign was released for this mainstream motion picture, including a 52-foot-high cutout of Marilyn (from the blowing dress scene) erected in front of Loews State Theater, in New York City's Times Square. The movie premiere was on June 1, 1955, which was also her 29th birthday.
54	In Italy, her films were dubbed at the beginning of her career by Miranda Bonansea. As she matured she was dubbed by the marvellous and prolific Rosetta Calavetta with immense success, particularly in Some Like It Hot (1959). Zoe Incrocci lent her voice to Monroe once: in All About Eve (1950).
55	Don't Bother to Knock (1952) (her 18th film) was an attempt to prove to critics that she could act successfully. Because some earlier films took numerous takes and much longer time to complete. Especially, The Seven Year Itch (1955) which took numerous extra takes, for her character role, alone.
56	Friend of James Haspiel.
57	In How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), her character Pola is reading a book called "Murder By Strangulation" on the plane. Coincidentally, this is how her character was murdered in Niagara (1953).
58	Her real father was Charles Stanley Gifford. From his side, she was descended from the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and religious leader Anne Marbury-Hutchinson, from whom she is related to Lucretia Rudolph (wife of President James A. Garfield), Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George Bush, and George W. Bush.
59	When budding actresses Shelley Winters and Marilyn were roommates in the late 1940s in Hollywood, Shelley said that one day she had to step out and asked Marilyn to "wash the lettuce" for a salad they were to share for dinner. When Shelley got back to the apartment, (Marilyn was apparently new to the art of cooking) had the leaves of lettuce in a small tub of soapy water and was scrubbing them clean. She had not heard of the phrase before either, or did not know it's true meaning.
60	Was good friends with Dorothy Dandridge and Ava Gardner when they were all young, struggling actresses in Hollywood.
61	In 1972, actress Veronica Hamel and her husband became the new owners of Marilyn's Brentwood home. They hired a contractor to replace the roof and remodel the house, and the contractor discovered a sophisticated eavesdropping and telephone tapping system that covered every room in the house. The components were not commercially available in 1962, but were in the words of a retired Justice Department official, "standard FBI issue." This discovery lent further support to claims of conspiracy theorists that Marilyn had been under surveillance by the Kennedys and the Mafia. The new owners spent $100,000 to remove the bugging devices from the house.
62	The ADR stage at Twentieth Century Fox is named after her.
63	A 1982 review into the original inquest of Marilyn's death, conducted on its 20-year anniversary, concluded that the actress committed suicide or accidentally overdosed, and was not murdered--rumors that were fueled by the sloppy handling of evidence, the delay in securing the scene and the disappearance of tissue samples.
64	Sergei Parajanov made collages of Monroe, Charles Chaplin, Mona Lisa, and other famous personages and many were featured in Mikhail Vartanov's Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992).
65	She took acting lessons from Michael Chekhov.
66	Aside from her birth name of Norma Jeane Mortenson, she was baptized and mainly known throughout her life as Norma Jeane Baker. During her modeling days she was also known as Norma Jeane Dougherty (her first marriage name), and also as Jean Norman. When she signed with 20th Century-Fox, studio casting executive Ben Lyon had first chosen the name Carol Lind as her stage name, although she disliked that. Eventually she chose her mother's maiden name of Monroe. Three names were drawn up as possible stage names. The first was Norma Jeane Monroe, although that sounded awkward; the second was Jean Monroe, and the third was Marilyn Monroe, the latter first name being chosen by Lyon who thought Norma Jeane resembled famed stage actress Marilyn Miller. Norma Jeane liked Jean Monroe, for it preserved some of her name, but Lyon convinced her that Marilyn Monroe sounded more alliterative and so it was chosen.
67	One of the first Los Angeles natives to become a major movie star.
68	In 1999, a make-up kit that she personally owned, sold for $266,500.
69	The dress Marilyn Monroe wore to serenade John F. Kennedy, on May 19, 1962 at his birthday celebration was so tight, that it had to be sewn onto her. She had to sit still for approximately an hour.
70	Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna's song "Vogue".
71	Was named #6 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends.
72	After discovering her dress was torn, at the 1950 Academy Awards, she burst into tears.
73	Ten days in advance, on Saturday, May 19th, 1962, she performed for U.S. President John F. Kennedy at his 45th birthday tribute in his honor at Madison Square Garden. She sang "Happy Birthday". (Kennedy's real birthday was May 29th).
74	The very popular version of "Santa Baby" (also found in the film, Party Monster (2003)) thought to be sung by her was instead recorded by Cynthia Basinet for Jack Nicholson as a Christmas gift.
75	Featured on a 1.11 euro postage stamp issued by French Post Office on Saturday, November 8th, 2003.
76	The punk band The Misfits recorded a song called "Who Killed Marilyn?" inspired by lead singer Glenn Danzig's belief that she had been murdered.
77	The punk band The Misfits created or picked their name from the last movie title she acted in, The Misfits (1961).
78	Named 2nd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premier Magazine, behind #1 Cary Grant and before #3 Tom Cruise.
79	"Candle in the Wind", Elton John's song, was originally written about her, and was lyrically re-changed to fit Princess Diana upon her death, in 1997. Coincidentally, both legends died at age 36.
80	Def Leppard's 1983 #1 hit single "Photograph" from their "Pyromania" album was written about her.
81	When she wasn't acting, she preferred to wear nothing but a bathrobe and occasionally a bikini.
82	The first Playboy magazine cover, featuring her, is pictured on one of six stamps issued in a souvenir sheet, issued by Grenada & the Grenadines on Saturday, December 1st, 2003 to celebrate Playboy's 50th and golden anniversary.
83	The Emily Ann Faulkner/Rita Shawn character (played by Kim Stanley) in the John Cromwell film The Goddess (1958) was based on her.
84	Was referenced in the dialogue of La Dolce Vita (1960), in the context of dieting.
85	She was "discovered" by press photographers during a World War II photo shoot at the Radioplane plant in California owned by actor Reginald Denny. She was one of the plant's employees. She left her job and signed with Emmeline Snively's modeling agency.
86	Her USO Entertainer Identification Card (#129778) listed her name as "Norma Jeane DiMaggio".
87	She is mentioned in the song "Lady Nina" by rock band Marillion.
88	Batman writer/artist Bob Kane used Marilyn's likeness as a reference when he drew Vicki Vale.
89	Appears on sleeve of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album.
90	Formed her own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, with Milton H. Greene, on December 31, 1955.
91	The famous nude photo of her by Tom Kelley originally appeared as anonymous on a calendar entitled "Miss Golden Dreams." In 1952, a blackmailer threatened to identify the model as Marilyn, but she shrewdly thwarted the scheme by announcing the fact herself. Hugh M. Hefner then bought the rights to use the photo for $500. She became "The Sweetheart of the Month" in the first issue of Hefner's magazine, Playboy. Neither Kelley or Monroe ever saw a dime of the millions the calendar made for its publisher.
92	When she was told that she was not the star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) she verbally said "Well whatever I am, I'm still the blonde.".
93	Her behavior on the unfinished Something's Got to Give (1962) dimmed her reputation in the industry, but she was still big box office at the time of her death. What a Way to Go! (1964) and The Stripper (1963) were being developed for her.
94	Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote a tribute to her entitled "Candle in the Wind". In 1997, it was re-recorded with updated lyrics in memory of Princess Diana.
95	Went to Van Nuys High School (Los Angeles) in the early 1940s but never graduated.
96	The first stamp released in the USPS's Legends of Hollywood series, issued on Friday, June 1st, 1995.
97	Although it's believed that her mother, Gladys Baker, named her after Norma Talmadge, Gladys reportedly told her daughter, Bernice (Marilyn's half-sister), that she named Marilyn after Norma Jeane Cohen, a child she was Nanny to while living in Louisville, KY. while her son Robert Kermit Baker (Marilyn's half brother) was in Hospital, and estranged from the father Jasper Baker. The boy died, and Gladys returned to California.
98	Offered to convert to Catholism in order to marry Joe DiMaggio in a Church ceremony, but she was turned down because she was divorced. Subsequently, when the divorced DiMaggio married Marilyn in a civil ceremony at San Francisco City Hall, he was automatically excommunicated by the Church; this edict was struck down by Pope John XXIII's Ecumenical Council (Vatican II) in 1962.
99	Won an interlocutory decree from Joe DiMaggio on Wednesday, October 27th, 1954, but, under California law, the divorce was not finalized until exactly one year later.
100	Married Arthur Miller twice: the 1st time in a civil ceremony, then in a Jewish (to which she had converted) ceremony two days later.
101	On Thursday, February 23rd, 1956, she obtained order from the City Court of the State of New York to legally change her name from Norma Jeane Mortenson to Marilyn Monroe.
102	Wore glasses.
103	Divorced last husband, Arthur Miller, in Juarez, Mexico.
104	Divorced first husband, James Dougherty, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
105	Suffered from endometriosis, a condition in which tissues of the uterus lining (endometrium) leave the uterus, attach themselves to other areas of the body, and grow, causing pain, irregular bleeding, and, in severe cases, infertility.
106	Born on Tuesday at 9:30 AM, Pacific Standard Time, which is Los Angeles, California's time zone.
107	The first time she signed an autograph as Marilyn Monroe, she had to ask how to spell it. She didn't know where to put the "i" in "Marilyn".
108	Thought the right side of her face was her "best" side.
109	She was suggested as a possible wife for Prince Rainier of Monaco. But he picked actress, Grace Kelly, to be his wife.
110	Fearing blemishes and sweat, she washed her face fifteen times a day.
111	Because the bathing suit she wore in the movie Love Nest (1951) was so risque (for the time period) and caused such a commotion on the set, director Joseph M. Newman had to make it a closed set when she was filming.
112	Was an outstanding player on the Hollygrove Orphanage softball team.
113	Often carried around the book, "The Biography of Abraham Lincoln."
114	During the filming of Niagara (1953), she was still under contract as a stock actor, thus, she received less salary than her make-up man. This was also the only film in which her character died. The film was reworked to highlight her after Anne Bancroft withdrew.
115	Frequently used Nivea moisturizer.
116	Her first modeling job paid only five dollars.
117	Redheaded actress Tina Louise played the character role of Ginger Grant on the television series Gilligan's Island (1964), was loosely based on her personality, but a different hair color.
118	When putting her imprints at Grauman's she joked that Jane Russell was best known for her large front-side and she was known for her wiggly walk, so Jane could lean over, and she could sit in it. It was only a joke, but she dotted the "I" in her name with a rhinestone, which was stolen within days.
119	Ex-husband Joe DiMaggio put fresh roses at her memorial site, for numerous years after her death.
120	She was discovered dead at her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, Brentwood, California. She had a phone in one of her hands, her body was completely nude and face down, on her bed.
121	Hugh M. Hefner owns the closest burial vault next to hers.
122	Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#2).
123	Hundreds of items of memorabilia auctioned off in late October 1999 by Christie's, with her infamous 'JFK' birthday-gown fetching over $1 million.
124	Interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Corridor of Memories, crypt #24.
125	Given a dog she named Tippy by foster father Albert Bolender. In her final, unfinished film Something's Got to Give (1962), the dog was also named Tippy.
126	Appeared on the first cover of Playboy in 1953.
127	Started using the name Marilyn Monroe in 1946, but did not legally change it until 1956.
128	Was named the Number One Sex Star of the 20th Century by Playboy magazine in 1999.
129	The licensing of Marilyn's name and likeness, handled world-wide by Curtis Management Group, reportedly nets the Monroe estate about $2 million a year.
130	When she died in 1962 at age 36, she left an estate valued at $1.6 million. In her will, Monroe bequeathed 75% of that estate to Lee Strasberg, her acting coach, and 25% to Dr. Marianne Kris, her psychoanalyst. A trust fund provided her mother, Gladys Baker Eley, with $5,000 a year. When Dr. Kris died in 1980, she passed her 25% on to the Anna Freud Centre, a children's psychiatric institute in London. Since Strasberg's death in 1982, his 75% has been administered by his widow, Anna, and her lawyer, Irving Seidman.
131	She was Playboy's first "Sweetheart of the Month" in December 1953.
132	Voted Empire's (UK) "sexiest female movie star of all time" in 1995.
133	Ranked #8 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
134	Was roommates with Shelley Winters when they were both starting out in Hollywood.
135	In her autobiography, "My Story", she recounted her guardian told her she was a direct descendant of James Monroe. Her mother's maiden name was Monroe, but there is no evidence she was a descendant of the U.S. President.
136	Was 1947's Miss California Artichoke Queen.
137	Voted 'Sexiest Woman of the Century' by People Magazine.
138	Is one of 20 actresses who did not receive an Oscar nomination for their Best Actress in a Comedy/Musical Golden Globe-winning performance; hers being for Some Like It Hot (1959). The others, in chronological order, are: June Allyson for Too Young to Kiss (1951), Ethel Merman for Call Me Madam (1953), Jean Simmons for Guys and Dolls (1955), Taina Elg and Kay Kendall for Les Girls (1957), Rosalind Russell for A Majority of One (1961) and Gypsy (1962), Patty Duke for Me, Natalie (1969), Twiggy for The Boy Friend (1971), Raquel Welch for The Three Musketeers (1973), Barbra Streisand for A Star Is Born (1976), Bernadette Peters for Pennies from Heaven (1981), Kathleen Turner for Romancing the Stone (1984) and Prizzi's Honor (1985), Miranda Richardson for Enchanted April (1991), Jamie Lee Curtis for True Lies (1994), Nicole Kidman for To Die For (1995), Madonna for Evita (1996), Renée Zellweger for Nurse Betty (2000), Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), and Amy Adams for Big Eyes (2014).
139	Richard Widmark on co-starring with Monroe in "Don't Bother to Knock": "She was a vulnerable kid. Murder to work with because she was scared to death of acting - even when she became a big movie actress. We had a hell of a time getting her out of the dressing room. When it was five o'clock , it got irritating: 'C'mon, Marilyn, we want to go home!' She was a movie animal. Something happened between the lens and the film. Nobody knew what the hell it was. On the set, you'd think: 'Oh, this is impossible; you can't print this.' You'd see it, and she's got everyone backed off the screen. Olivier said the same thing. She had that phenomenal something! Nobody knows what it is, but she had it. She certainly was never a professional actress. She always had a coach with her, lurking in the background, giving her signals. And she could never remember three words in a row - so it was all piece-work. Beyond all the technical deficiencies, she was a nice girl. We got along fine.".
140	Played by Mary Hanson in Hollywood Mouth 2 (2014). The director of that film, Jordan Mohr, had portrayed Marilyn's rival Simone Signoret in the stage play "Two Simones: de Beauvoir and Signoret in Hollywood".
141	Was good friends with Judy Garland.
142	Director Billy Wilder was quoted as saying, "The great success of Monroe... was that she did not infuriate the female.".
143	"Goodbye, Charlie" with Debbie Reynolds and "The Stripper" with Joanne Woodward were originally slated by Fox as Monroe projects.
144	According to the book "Flesh and Fantasy" Monroe perfected a Vaseline-based lip gloss.
145	She campaigned to play the Maria Schell role in "The Brothers Karamazov," but she was never seriously considered.
146	Among roles that Monroe turned down under her Fox contract: "Pink Tights," "How To Be Very, Very Popular," "The Revolt of Mamie Stover," "The Girl in the Red velvet Swing,' "The Jean Harlow Story," "The Blue Angel," and "Can-Can.".
147	After working with Monroe in As Young as You Feel (1951) jealous co-star Constance Bennett wisecracked, "Now there's a broad with a future behind her!".
148	Although Monroe's famous nude calender grossed $750,000, the actress only got $50 and a bad cold out of it.
149	Ayn Rand wrote a powerful tribute to her, compiled in "The Voice of Reason".
150	Mentioned in the song "Tell me it's not true" from the musical "Blood Brothers".
151	According to Adam Curtis' "The Century of Self", Monroe was in the later years subjected to an experimental kind of therapy where she was forced to attend the rituals of an average family and then expected to model her self upon the experience. Arthur Miller commented in the same documentary "I don't think suffering is always a mistake".
152	She was scheduled for The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955), but she was thought too old at 30 when the character was supposed to be 17 so she was replaced with Joan Collins.
153	Film editor Dann Cahn recommended a young woman he was dating for the part of a beautiful young woman in Your Show Time (1949). Producer Stanley Rubin auditioned her and turned her down because she did not have enough experience. The young woman's name was Marilyn Monroe.
154	She had the same birthday (June 1) as her former sister-in-law Joan Copeland, the younger sister of her third husband Arthur Miller.
155	Learned to play the guitar for her role in River of No Return (1954) and the ukulele for her role in Some Like It Hot (1959).
156	Monroe was a stutterer, a little known fact that was easily covered thanks to studio vocal coaches who provided her with dictation lessons.
157	Was close friends with singer Ella Fitzgerald and helped her rise in her musical career by arranging for her to sing in many upscale nightclubs some of which were segregated during the time of their friendship.
158	Was a lifelong liberal Democrat.
159	Good friends with Milton H. Greene.
160	Ranked #3 in Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of all Time (2011).
161	Read and wrote poetry. Her favorite poets were Walt Whitman and John Keats.
162	Although she was an avid buyer of books and owned over 400 of them at her death, third husband Arthur Miller said, "Aside from Colette's Cheri and a few short stories, I had never known her to read anything all the way through. She felt she could get the idea of a book, and often did, in just a few pages.".
163	Became pregnant twice (in July 1957 and November 1958) during her marriage to Arthur Miller; on both occasions she suffered miscarriages.
164	Half-sister of Berniece and Robert Kermitt Baker (but she never knew him, because he died at 14) by her mother's side. Sister-in-law of Paris Miracle, aunt of Mona Rae Miracle.
165	Former stepmother of Robert A. Miller.
166	Although she was perhaps the most famous actress of the 1950s decade, she never made more than $100,000 per picture upfront. Actresses such as Elizabeth Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck were earning significantly more.
167	Was in consideration for the part of Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (1955), but Vivian Blaine was cast instead.
168	Her last film Something's Got to Give (1962), was finally released in 2003. In the swimming pool scene, Marilyn reveals much more to the camera than she did in her then controversial calendar photo from the early 1950s.
169	Featured in "Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film" by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (McFarland, 1998).
170	In 1961, after her divorce from Arthur Miller, she purchased a 2900 square foot hacienda style house in Brentwood, for $77,500.
171	"Time Magazine" reported in 1973 that Los Angeles County coroner Thomas Noguchi, the doctor who performed Monroe's autopsy, said that contrary to rumors, Monroe's stomach was never pumped after her death. The level of Nembutal in her bloodstream was 4.5 milligrams per 100, which is the equivalent of 40 or 50 capsules indicating suicide.
172	Nearly 11 years after her death, she appeared on the cover of the Tuesday, July 17th, 1973 edition of "Time Magazine" in a full-color portrait taken by Bert Stern, from the last photographic sitting before her death. The cover-story heralds the publication of "Marilyn," the biography of her by Norman Mailer. On the cover, her image dwarfs a black & white photo of Mailer. Mailer reportedly was displeased that "Time" chose to play up Monroe and diminish him, visually on the cover. The publication of the coffee table biography, which contained many photographs including several by Stern, was a major event of that publishing season. The book retailed for $19.95, which is approximately $100 in 2008 money, when factored for inflation.
173	There are over 600 books written about her.
174	Her personal library contained over 400 books on topics ranging from art to history, psychology, philosophy, literature, religion, poetry, and gardening. Many of the volumes, auctioned in 1999, bore her pencil notations in the margins.
175	She tried 9 different shades of blonde hair color before settling on platinum blonde.
176	When she married Joe DiMaggio, the couple moved into a home at 508 N. Palm Drive in Beverly Hills, that was next door to Jean Harlow's last home.
177	Producer Keya Morgan owns her Bible.
178	Spent most of her early childhood in foster homes and orphanages because her mother was committed to a mental institution. Later, she lived with her mother's best friend, Grace McKee, and her family. McKee, a big fan of Jean Harlow, allowed her to wear make-up and curl her hair and, when she was 15, it was McKee who pierced her ears for her using a sewing needle. At 16, when McKee could no longer take care of her, she got married to avoid returning to the orphanage.
179	In 1946, she signed her first studio contract with 20th Century Fox and dyed her hair.
180	Her classic shape, according to her dressmaker, is actually measured at 37-23-36.
181	She left Hollywood to pursue serious acting by studying under Lee Strasberg at his Actors' Studio in New York City.
182	Her "Happy Birthday Mr. President" dress sold for $1,267,500.00, a world record for the most expensive piece of clothing ever sold, and is in the Guinness Book of World Records.
183	She resided at the Hollywood Roosevelt while she was breaking into the acting business.
184	What a Way to Go! (1964) initially intended as a vehicle for her, Shirley MacLaine played Louisa May Foster instead. Producer Arthur P. Jacobs was her publicist and J. Lee Thompson was on her list of approved directors.
185	Was originally set to play Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), but Audrey Hepburn played the role instead.
186	Her lifelong bouts with depression and self-destruction took their toll during filming The Seven Year Itch (1955). She frequently muffed scenes and forgot her lines, leading to sometimes as many as 40 takes of a scene before a satisfactory result was produced. Her constant tardiness and behavioral problems made the budget of the film swell to $1.8 million, a high price for the time. The film still managed to make a nice profit. The classic shot of her dress blowing up around her legs as she stands over a subway grating in this film was originally shot on Manhattan's Lexington Avenue at 52nd St., On Wednesday, September 15th, 1954, at 1:00 a.m. Five thousand onlookers whistled and cheered through take after take as Marilyn repeatedly missed her lines. This occurred in presence of an increasingly embarrassed and angry Joe DiMaggio (her husband at the time; the nine-month-old marriage officially ended during the shooting of this film). The original footage shot on that night in New York never made it to the screen; the noise of the crowd had made it unusable. Director Billy Wilder re-shot the scene on the 20th Century-Fox lot, on a set replicating Lexington Avenue, and got a more satisfactory result. However, it took another 40 takes for Marilyn to achieve the famous scene. Amazingly, her very narrow spike heels don't get stuck or break in the subway grating, although this was a universal problem at the time for the countless women wearing that very popular style heel in New York City in that era. An important promotional campaign was released for this mainstream motion picture, including a 52-foot-high cutout of Marilyn (from the blowing dress scene) erected in front of Loews State Theater, in New York City's Times Square. The movie premiere was on June 1, 1955, which was also her 29th birthday.
187	In Italy, her films were dubbed at the beginning of her career by Miranda Bonansea. As she matured she was dubbed by the marvellous and prolific Rosetta Calavetta with immense success, particularly in Some Like It Hot (1959). Zoe Incrocci lent her voice to Monroe once: in All About Eve (1950).
188	Don't Bother to Knock (1952) (her 18th film) was an attempt to prove to critics that she could act successfully. Because some earlier films took numerous takes and much longer time to complete. Especially, The Seven Year Itch (1955) which took numerous extra takes, for her character role, alone.
189	Friend of James Haspiel.
190	In How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), her character Pola is reading a book called "Murder By Strangulation" on the plane. Coincidentally, this is how her character was murdered in Niagara (1953).
191	Her real father was Charles Stanley Gifford. From his side, she was descended from the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and religious leader Anne Marbury-Hutchinson, from whom she is related to Lucretia Rudolph (wife of President James A. Garfield), Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, George Bush, and George W. Bush.
192	When budding actresses Shelley Winters and Marilyn were roommates in the late 1940s in Hollywood, Shelley said that one day she had to step out and asked Marilyn to "wash the lettuce" for a salad they were to share for dinner. When Shelley got back to the apartment, (Marilyn was apparently new to the art of cooking) had the leaves of lettuce in a small tub of soapy water and was scrubbing them clean. She had not heard of the phrase before either, or did not know it's true meaning.
193	Was good friends with Dorothy Dandridge and Ava Gardner when they were all young, struggling actresses in Hollywood.
194	In 1972, actress Veronica Hamel and her husband became the new owners of Marilyn's Brentwood home. They hired a contractor to replace the roof and remodel the house, and the contractor discovered a sophisticated eavesdropping and telephone tapping system that covered every room in the house. The components were not commercially available in 1962, but were in the words of a retired Justice Department official, "standard FBI issue." This discovery lent further support to claims of conspiracy theorists that Marilyn had been under surveillance by the Kennedys and the Mafia. The new owners spent $100,000 to remove the bugging devices from the house.
195	The ADR stage at Twentieth Century Fox is named after her.
196	A 1982 review into the original inquest of Marilyn's death, conducted on its 20-year anniversary, concluded that the actress committed suicide or accidentally overdosed, and was not murdered--rumors that were fueled by the sloppy handling of evidence, the delay in securing the scene and the disappearance of tissue samples.
197	Sergei Parajanov made collages of Monroe, Charles Chaplin, Mona Lisa, and other famous personages and many were featured in Mikhail Vartanov's Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992).
198	She took acting lessons from Michael Chekhov.
199	Aside from her birth name of Norma Jeane Mortenson, she was baptized and mainly known throughout her life as Norma Jeane Baker. During her modeling days she was also known as Norma Jeane Dougherty (her first marriage name), and also as Jean Norman. When she signed with 20th Century-Fox, studio casting executive Ben Lyon had first chosen the name Carol Lind as her stage name, although she disliked that. Eventually she chose her mother's maiden name of Monroe. Three names were drawn up as possible stage names. The first was Norma Jeane Monroe, although that sounded awkward; the second was Jean Monroe, and the third was Marilyn Monroe, the latter first name being chosen by Lyon who thought Norma Jeane resembled famed stage actress Marilyn Miller. Norma Jeane liked Jean Monroe, for it preserved some of her name, but Lyon convinced her that Marilyn Monroe sounded more alliterative and so it was chosen.
200	One of the first Los Angeles natives to become a major movie star.
201	In 1999, a make-up kit that she personally owned, sold for $266,500.
202	The dress Marilyn Monroe wore to serenade John F. Kennedy, on May 19, 1962 at his birthday celebration was so tight, that it had to be sewn onto her. She had to sit still for approximately an hour.
203	Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna's song "Vogue".
204	Was named #6 Actress on The American Film Institute's 50 Greatest Screen Legends.
205	After discovering her dress was torn, at the 1950 Academy Awards, she burst into tears.
206	Ten days in advance, on Saturday, May 19th, 1962, she performed for U.S. President John F. Kennedy at his 45th birthday tribute in his honor at Madison Square Garden. She sang "Happy Birthday". (Kennedy's real birthday was May 29th).
207	The very popular version of "Santa Baby" (also found in the film, Party Monster (2003)) thought to be sung by her was instead recorded by Cynthia Basinet for Jack Nicholson as a Christmas gift.
208	Featured on a 1.11 euro postage stamp issued by French Post Office on Saturday, November 8th, 2003.
209	The punk band The Misfits recorded a song called "Who Killed Marilyn?" inspired by lead singer Glenn Danzig's belief that she had been murdered.
210	The punk band The Misfits created or picked their name from the last movie title she acted in, The Misfits (1961).
211	Named 2nd Greatest Movie Star of all time by Premier Magazine, behind #1 Cary Grant and before #3 Tom Cruise.
212	"Candle in the Wind", Elton John's song, was originally written about her, and was lyrically re-changed to fit Princess Diana upon her death, in 1997. Coincidentally, both legends died at age 36.
213	Def Leppard's 1983 #1 hit single "Photograph" from their "Pyromania" album was written about her.
214	When she wasn't acting, she preferred to wear nothing but a bathrobe and occasionally a bikini.
215	The first Playboy magazine cover, featuring her, is pictured on one of six stamps issued in a souvenir sheet, issued by Grenada & the Grenadines on Saturday, December 1st, 2003 to celebrate Playboy's 50th and golden anniversary.
216	The Emily Ann Faulkner/Rita Shawn character (played by Kim Stanley) in the John Cromwell film The Goddess (1958) was based on her.
217	Was referenced in the dialogue of La Dolce Vita (1960), in the context of dieting.
218	She was "discovered" by press photographers during a World War II photo shoot at the Radioplane plant in California owned by actor Reginald Denny. She was one of the plant's employees. She left her job and signed with Emmeline Snively's modeling agency.
219	Her USO Entertainer Identification Card (#129778) listed her name as "Norma Jeane DiMaggio".
220	She is mentioned in the song "Lady Nina" by rock band Marillion.
221	Batman writer/artist Bob Kane used Marilyn's likeness as a reference when he drew Vicki Vale.
222	Appears on sleeve of The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album.
223	Formed her own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, with Milton H. Greene, on December 31, 1955.
224	The famous nude photo of her by Tom Kelley originally appeared as anonymous on a calendar entitled "Miss Golden Dreams." In 1952, a blackmailer threatened to identify the model as Marilyn, but she shrewdly thwarted the scheme by announcing the fact herself. Hugh M. Hefner then bought the rights to use the photo for $500. She became "The Sweetheart of the Month" in the first issue of Hefner's magazine, Playboy. Neither Kelley or Monroe ever saw a dime of the millions the calendar made for its publisher.
225	When she was told that she was not the star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) she verbally said "Well whatever I am, I'm still the blonde.".
226	Her behavior on the unfinished Something's Got to Give (1962) dimmed her reputation in the industry, but she was still big box office at the time of her death. What a Way to Go! (1964) and The Stripper (1963) were being developed for her.
227	Elton John and Bernie Taupin wrote a tribute to her entitled "Candle in the Wind". In 1997, it was re-recorded with updated lyrics in memory of Princess Diana.
228	Went to Van Nuys High School (Los Angeles) in the early 1940s but never graduated.
229	The first stamp released in the USPS's Legends of Hollywood series, issued on Friday, June 1st, 1995.
230	Although it's believed that her mother, Gladys Baker, named her after Norma Talmadge, Gladys reportedly told her daughter, Bernice (Marilyn's half-sister), that she named Marilyn after Norma Jeane Cohen, a child she was Nanny to while living in Louisville, KY. while her son Robert Kermit Baker (Marilyn's half brother) was in Hospital, and estranged from the father Jasper Baker. The boy died, and Gladys returned to California.
231	Offered to convert to Catholism in order to marry Joe DiMaggio in a Church ceremony, but she was turned down because she was divorced. Subsequently, when the divorced DiMaggio married Marilyn in a civil ceremony at San Francisco City Hall, he was automatically excommunicated by the Church; this edict was struck down by Pope John XXIII's Ecumenical Council (Vatican II) in 1962.
232	Won an interlocutory decree from Joe DiMaggio on Wednesday, October 27th, 1954, but, under California law, the divorce was not finalized until exactly one year later.
233	Married Arthur Miller twice: the 1st time in a civil ceremony, then in a Jewish (to which she had converted) ceremony two days later.
234	On Thursday, February 23rd, 1956, she obtained order from the City Court of the State of New York to legally change her name from Norma Jeane Mortenson to Marilyn Monroe.
235	Wore glasses.
236	Divorced last husband, Arthur Miller, in Juarez, Mexico.
237	Divorced first husband, James Dougherty, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
238	Suffered from endometriosis, a condition in which tissues of the uterus lining (endometrium) leave the uterus, attach themselves to other areas of the body, and grow, causing pain, irregular bleeding, and, in severe cases, infertility.
239	Born on Tuesday at 9:30 AM, Pacific Standard Time, which is Los Angeles, California's time zone.
240	The first time she signed an autograph as Marilyn Monroe, she had to ask how to spell it. She didn't know where to put the "i" in "Marilyn".
241	Thought the right side of her face was her "best" side.
242	She was suggested as a possible wife for Prince Rainier of Monaco. But he picked actress, Grace Kelly, to be his wife.
243	Fearing blemishes and sweat, she washed her face fifteen times a day.
244	Because the bathing suit she wore in the movie Love Nest (1951) was so risque (for the time period) and caused such a commotion on the set, director Joseph M. Newman had to make it a closed set when she was filming.
245	Was an outstanding player on the Hollygrove Orphanage softball team.
246	Often carried around the book, "The Biography of Abraham Lincoln."
247	During the filming of Niagara (1953), she was still under contract as a stock actor, thus, she received less salary than her make-up man. This was also the only film in which her character died. The film was reworked to highlight her after Anne Bancroft withdrew.
248	Frequently used Nivea moisturizer.
249	Her first modeling job paid only five dollars.
250	Redheaded actress Tina Louise played the character role of Ginger Grant on the television series Gilligan's Island (1964), was loosely based on her personality, but a different hair color.
251	When putting her imprints at Grauman's she joked that Jane Russell was best known for her large front-side and she was known for her wiggly walk, so Jane could lean over, and she could sit in it. It was only a joke, but she dotted the "I" in her name with a rhinestone, which was stolen within days.
252	Ex-husband Joe DiMaggio put fresh roses at her memorial site, for numerous years after her death.
253	She was discovered dead at her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive, Brentwood, California. She had a phone in one of her hands, her body was completely nude and face down, on her bed.
254	Hugh M. Hefner owns the closest burial vault next to hers.
255	Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#2).
256	Hundreds of items of memorabilia auctioned off in late October 1999 by Christie's, with her infamous 'JFK' birthday-gown fetching over $1 million.
257	Interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA, in the Corridor of Memories, crypt #24.
258	Given a dog she named Tippy by foster father Albert Bolender. In her final, unfinished film Something's Got to Give (1962), the dog was also named Tippy.
259	Appeared on the first cover of Playboy in 1953.
260	Started using the name Marilyn Monroe in 1946, but did not legally change it until 1956.
261	Was named the Number One Sex Star of the 20th Century by Playboy magazine in 1999.
262	The licensing of Marilyn's name and likeness, handled world-wide by Curtis Management Group, reportedly nets the Monroe estate about $2 million a year.
263	When she died in 1962 at age 36, she left an estate valued at $1.6 million. In her will, Monroe bequeathed 75% of that estate to Lee Strasberg, her acting coach, and 25% to Dr. Marianne Kris, her psychoanalyst. A trust fund provided her mother, Gladys Baker Eley, with $5,000 a year. When Dr. Kris died in 1980, she passed her 25% on to the Anna Freud Centre, a children's psychiatric institute in London. Since Strasberg's death in 1982, his 75% has been administered by his widow, Anna, and her lawyer, Irving Seidman.
264	She was Playboy's first "Sweetheart of the Month" in December 1953.
265	Voted Empire's (UK) "sexiest female movie star of all time" in 1995.
266	Ranked #8 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
267	Was roommates with Shelley Winters when they were both starting out in Hollywood.
268	In her autobiography, "My Story", she recounted her guardian told her she was a direct descendant of James Monroe. Her mother's maiden name was Monroe, but there is no evidence she was a descendant of the U.S. President.
269	Was 1947's Miss California Artichoke Queen.
270	Voted 'Sexiest Woman of the Century' by People Magazine.



Soundtrack

Soundtrack

Title	Year	Status	Character
Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime	2017	Documentary performer: "Two Little Girls from Little Rock", "That Old Black Magic", "I'm Thru with Love" - uncredited
Good Morning Britain	2016	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Autopsy: The Last Hours Of	2015	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Ochéntame... otra vez	2015	TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode
My Granny the Escort	2014	TV Movie documentary performer: "I'm Thru with Love" - uncredited
Love, Marilyn	2012	Documentary performer: "I Wanna Be Loved by You", "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend", "After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It", "I'm Gonna File My Claim"
Gent de paraula	2011	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Shooting the Hollywood Stars	2011	TV Movie documentary performer: "Some Like It Hot" - uncredited
Burlesque	2010/I	performer: "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend Swing Cats Mix"
Willkommen Österreich	2009	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Dzi Croquettes	2009	Documentary performer: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
Dancing with the Stars		TV Series 2 episodes, 2005 - 2006 performer - 1 episode, 2009
Game Boys	2008	performer: "I Wanna Be Loved By You"
Mad Men	2008	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Vita da Star: Cristiano Malgioglio	2008	TV Movie documentary performer: "I Wanna Be Loved By You"
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical Treasure	2008	TV Movie documentary performer: "A Little Girl from Little Rock" - uncredited
Nip/Tuck	2007	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Hoge bomen: Pioniers	2007	TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode
La imagen de tu vida	2006	TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Comeback	2005	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Queer as Folk	2002-2004	TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast	1999-2004	TV Series performer - 2 episodes
Hårde drenge danser ikke	2001	Documentary performer: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days	2001	TV Movie documentary performer: "Happy Birthday to You"
Lukas	2001	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Zwei Männer am Herd	1999-2001	TV Series performer - 4 episodes
Town & Country	2001	performer: "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" 1953
Russian Doll	2001	performer: "Kiss"
Zwei Männer am Herd	1999	TV Movie performer: "I Wanna Be Loved By You" - uncredited
Little Voice	1998	performer: "My Heart Belongs to Daddy"
Hidden Hollywood: Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Film Vaults	1997	TV Movie documentary performer: "After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It", "Heat Wave" - uncredited
Florida Lady	1994	TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Kennedy Years: JFK Remembered	1993	Documentary short performer: "I Wanna Be Loved by You"
Aqui na Terra	1993	performer: "I WANT BE LOVED BY YOU"
Die Hausmeisterin	1992	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Guilty by Suspicion	1991	performer: "BYE, BYE BABY", "DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND"
Heavy Petting	1989	Documentary performer: "Old Black Magic"
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend	1987	Documentary performer: "Happy Birthday to You" 1893, "Kiss" 1953, "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" 1953, "The River of No Return" 1954, "That Old Black Magic" 1942 - uncredited
Der Andro-Jäger	1983	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Remember When...	1981	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Raging Bull	1980	performer: "Bye, Bye Baby" 1953
And Now My Love	1974	performer: "Bye Bye Baby"
Handicap	1968	Short performer: "I'm Just A Little Girl From Little Rock"
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe	1966	Documentary performer: "I Wanna Be Loved by You" 1928, "Happy Birthday", "Thanks for the Memory" - uncredited
The Love Goddesses	1965	Documentary performer: "I Wanna be Loved by You"
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute	1962	TV Movie performer: "Happy Birthday To You"
Let's Make Love	1960	"INCURABLY ROMANTIC" / performer: "LET'S MAKE LOVE", "SPECIALIZATION", "INCURABLY ROMANTIC", "MY HEART BELONGS TO DADDY"
Some Like It Hot	1959	performer: "Runnin' Wild" 1922, "Sugar Blues" 1920, "I Wanna Be Loved by You" 1928, "I'm Thru with Love" 1931, "Some Like It Hot" 1958, "Sugar Blues - Runnin' Wild" - uncredited
The Prince and the Showgirl	1957	performer: "I Found a Dream" - uncredited
Bus Stop	1956	performer: "That Old Black Magic" 1942 - uncredited
The Seven Year Itch	1955	performer: "Chopsticks" 1877 - uncredited
There's No Business Like Show Business	1954	performer: "After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It", "Heat Wave", "A Man Chases a Girl Until She Catches Him", "Lazy" - uncredited
River of No Return	1954	performer: "River of No Return", "I'm Gonna File My Claim", "One Silver Dollar", "Down in the Meadow" - uncredited
The Jack Benny Program	1953	TV Series performer - 1 episode
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	1953	performer: "When Love Goes Wrong" 1953, "A Little Girl from Little Rock" 1949 uncredited, "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" 1949 uncredited, "Bye Bye Baby" 1949 uncredited
Niagara	1953	performer: "Kiss" - uncredited
A Ticket to Tomahawk	1950	performer: "Oh, What a Forward Young Man You Are" - uncredited
Ladies of the Chorus	1948	performer: "Every Baby Needs a Da Da Daddy", "Anyone Can Tell I Love You", "The Ladies of the Chorus"

Actress

Actress

Title	Year	Status	Character
Monkey Business	1952		Miss Lois Laurel
O. Henry's Full House	1952		Streetwalker (segment "The Cop and the Anthem")
Don't Bother to Knock	1952		Nell Forbes
We're Not Married!	1952		Annabel Jones Norris
Clash by Night	1952		Peggy
Let's Make It Legal	1951		Joyce Mannering
Love Nest	1951		Roberta 'Bobbie' Stevens
As Young as You Feel	1951		Harriet
Home Town Story	1951		Iris Martin
All About Eve	1950		Miss Casswell
The Fireball	1950		Polly
Right Cross	1950		Dusky Ledoux (uncredited)
The Asphalt Jungle	1950		Angela Phinlay
A Ticket to Tomahawk	1950		Clara (uncredited)
Love Happy	1949		Grunion's Client
Ladies of the Chorus	1948		Peggy Martin
Green Grass of Wyoming	1948		Extra at Square Dance (uncredited)
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!	1948		Betty (uncredited)
You Were Meant for Me	1948		Undetermined Minor Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
Dangerous Years	1947		Evie - Waitress at the Gopher Hole
Something's Got to Give	1962	Short	Ellen Arden
The Misfits	1961		Roslyn Taber
Let's Make Love	1960		Amanda Dell
Some Like It Hot	1959		Sugar Kane Kowalczyk
The Prince and the Showgirl	1957		Elsie
Bus Stop	1956		Chérie
The Seven Year Itch	1955		The Girl
There's No Business Like Show Business	1954		Vicky Parker
River of No Return	1954		Kay Weston
How to Marry a Millionaire	1953		Pola Debevoise
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes	1953		Lorelei Lee
Niagara	1953		Rose Loomis
The Jack Benny Program	1952	TV Series	Marilyn Monroe

Writer

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Bloodmoon	2015	Short excerpts from "Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters"
Love, Marilyn	2012	Documentary personal papers

Producer

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Prince and the Showgirl	1957	executive producer - uncredited

Thanks

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
Ryan & Ruby	2014	TV Series short thanks for the inspiration - 10 episodes
That's Life!! Kilorenzos Smith in Talks...	2013	TV Series documentary very special thanks - 1 episode
13 Steps	2011	Short in memory of
The Opening	2009	Short grateful acknowledgment
That Man: Peter Berlin	2005	Documentary heavenly thanks
S1m0ne	2002	Simone wishes to thank the following for their contribution to the making of Simone
Something's Got to Give	1962	Short dedicatee

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
President Kennedy's Birthday Salute	1962	TV Movie	Herself
Premier Khrushchev in the USA	1959	Documentary	Herself
Person to Person	1955	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Bob Hope Show	1954	TV Series	Herself
The Jack Benny Program	1953	TV Series	Herself
Olympic Fund Telethon	1952	TV Special	Herself

Archive Footage

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Lykke og krone	1962	Documentary	Herself (uncredited)
The DuPont Show of the Week	1961	TV Series	Herself / Narrator
The Ed Sullivan Show	1954-1961	TV Series	Herself / Roslyn Taber
Zwischen Glück und Krone	1959	Documentary	Herself
Film Fanfare	1956	TV Series	Herself
What Ever Happened to Norma Jeane?	2018	Documentary filming	Herself
Marilyn Monroe: Murder on Fifth Helena Drive	2017	Documentary filming	Herself
The Fabulous Allan Carr	2017	Documentary	Herself
Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime	2017	Documentary	Herself
The Craig Caddell Show	2017	TV Mini-Series	Herself
Die Öscars	2016	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself
Good Morning Britain	2016	TV Series	Herself
Bailando por un sueño	2016	TV Series	Herself
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone	2016	Documentary	The Girl
Before the Flood	2016	Documentary	Herself
Dear Eleanor	2016		Herself
Yves Montand, l'ombre au tableau	2016	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Our Queen at Ninety	2016	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Enas Kouklos Den Fernei tin Anoixi!!	2015	Short	Herself - Various
Le Pan prima della Pan	2015
Pinewood: 80 Years of Movie Magic	2015	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
The Insider	2015	TV Series	Herself
Autopsy: The Last Hours Of	2015	TV Series	Herself
Le Fossoyeur de Films	2015	TV Mini-Series documentary
The Drunken Peasants	2014	TV Series	Herself
2nd Indie Fest of YouTube Videos 2014	2014	TV Movie	Herself
Tu cara me suena - Argentina	2014	TV Series	Herself
Troldspejlet	2014	TV Series	Herself (segment "Legetøjszonen")
The O'Reilly Factor	2008-2014	TV Series	Herself (segment "Watters' World") / Herself / Various Roles
From Gold to Containers, from Salt to Empires	2014	Video	Herself
That's Life!! Kilorenzos Smith in Talks...	2013	TV Series documentary	Herself
Khrushchev Does America	2013	Documentary	Herself
#Yaprava	2013	TV Series	Herself
Arena	2012	TV Series documentary
The Untold History of the United States	2012	TV Series documentary	Herself - Movie Star
Sendung ohne Namen	2012	TV Series documentary	Herself
Love, Marilyn	2012	Documentary	Herself
Alexandra - Stimme der Sehnsucht: Der rätselhafte Tod eines Stars	2012	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
No me la puc treure del cap	2012	TV Series	Sugar Kane / Herself
Smash	2012	TV Series	Herself
Le secret de la Dernière Malle de Marilyn	2012	Documentary	Herself
Marilyn Monroe: In the Movies	2012	Video documentary
Playboy Plus	2012	TV Series	Herself
King Kennedy	2011	Documentary	Herself
Marilyn Is Dead	2011	Short
Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom	2011	Documentary	Herself
Marlon Brando tuli Suomeen	2011	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Ivo Livi, dit Yves Montand	2011	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Un jour, un destin	2008-2011	TV Series documentary	Herself / Various roles
Bert Stern: Original Madman	2011	Documentary	Herself
Love Lust	2011	TV Series documentary	Herself
Kennedys' Home Movies	2011	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Shooting the Hollywood Stars	2011	TV Movie documentary	Herself
My Week with Marilyn: The Untold Story of an American Icon	2011	Video documentary short	Herself (uncredited)
Stars of the Silver Screen	2011	TV Series	Miss Casswell / Roslyn Taber / Herself
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood	2010	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself
The Kennedy Detail	2010	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff	2010	Documentary	Herself
Marilyn Monroe - Ich möchte geliebt werden	2010	Documentary	Herself
Marilyn Monroe - Tod einer Ikone	2010	Documentary	Herself
Burlesque Undressed	2010	Documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Smash His Camera	2010	Documentary	Herself
50 años de	2009	TV Series	Herself
Mystères d'archives	2009	TV Series documentary short	Herself
Hannity	2009	TV Series	Herself
20 to 1	2006-2009	TV Series documentary	Herself / The Girl
WWE Tribute for the Troops	2008	TV Special	Herself (uncredited)
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence	2008	TV Series	Roslyn Taber in 'The Misfits'
Biography	1994-2008	TV Series documentary	Herself
Marilyn, dernières séances	2008	TV Movie documentary	Herself
La rabbia di Pasolini	2008	Documentary	Herself
Vita da Star: Cristiano Malgioglio	2008	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Elvis: Return to Tupelo	2008	Video documentary	Herself
Il était une fois...	2008	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Jill & Tony Curtis Story	2008	Documentary	Roslyn Taber
Spisok korabley	2008	Documentary	Kay Weston
Waiting for Hockney	2008	Documentary	Herself
The Sweet Lady with the Nasty Voice	2008	Documentary	Herself
Bigger Stronger Faster*	2008	Documentary	Herself
20 heures le journal	2007	TV Series	Herself
Man Made: Secret History of the Bra	2007	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil	2007	Documentary	Union Oil Commercial (uncredited)
Undercover History	2007	TV Series	Herself
Switch: Reloaded	2007	TV Series	Herself
Protagonistas del recuerdo	2006-2007	TV Series	Herself
On n'est pas couché	2006	TV Series	Herself
Revealed	2006	TV Series documentary	Herself
La imagen de tu vida	2006	TV Series	Herself
University Challenge: The Story So Far	2006	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
E! True Hollywood Story	1998-2006	TV Series documentary	Herself
Video on Trial	2006	TV Series	Herself
American Masters	2003-2006	TV Series documentary	Herself
Billy Wilder Speaks	2006	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Niagara Falls	2006	TV Movie documentary	Rose Loomis
¿De qué te ríes?	2006	TV Movie	The Girl
The Early Show	2006	TV Series	Herself
La mandrágora	2006	TV Series	Herself
Playboy: Celebrity Centerfolds	2006	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Elton John: The Red Piano	2005	TV Special documentary	Footage 'Candle in the Wind'
Private Screenings	2005	TV Series	Herself
The World's Most Photographed	2005	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself
Cuando España se desnudó	2005	TV Movie documentary
James Dean: Forever Young	2005	Documentary	Herself
Bettie Page: The Girl in the Leopard Print Bikini	2004	Video documentary	Herself
Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates	2004	Video documentary	Herself
Marilyn's Man	2004	Documentary	Herself
The Prince, the Showgirl and Me	2004	TV Movie documentary
Victoria Wood's Big Fat Documentary	2004	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself
Naughty Bits	2004	TV Series	Herself
The 100 Greatest Musicals	2003	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration	2003	TV Movie documentary	Herself
The People's Hollywood	2003	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Entertainment Tonight	2003	TV Series	Herself
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second	2003	Video documentary	Herself
Save Our History	2003	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Greatest	2003	TV Series documentary	Herself
101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment	2003	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Blond in Hollywood	2003	TV Series documentary	Herself
Ripley's Believe It or Not!	2003	TV Series	Herself
Living Famously	2003	TV Series documentary	Herself
Larry King Live	2002	TV Series	The Girl / Pola Debevoise / Cherie
Great Performances	2002	TV Series	Herself
The Biographer	2002	TV Movie	Herself
Marilyn on Marilyn	2001	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Modern Marvels	1999-2001	TV Series documentary	Herself
Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in Love	2001	TV Movie documentary
Legenden	2001	TV Series documentary	Herself
Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days	2001	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Memories from the Sweet Sue's	2001	Video short	Sugar Kane
Backstory	2000-2001	TV Series documentary	Herself
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood	2001	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years	2000	TV Movie documentary	Lorelei Lee
Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis	2000	TV Movie	Herself (uncredited)
ESPN SportsCentury	2000	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Final Day	2000	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself
E! Mysteries & Scandals	2000	TV Series documentary	Herself
Joe DiMaggio: The Final Chapter	2000	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Playboy: The Complete Anna Nicole Smith	2000	Video documentary	Herself
ABC 2000: The Millennium	1999	TV Special documentary	Herself
Clara Bow: Discovering the It Girl	1999	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 1	1999	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Hollywood Screen Tests: Take 2	1999	TV Special documentary	Herself (uncredited)
The Rat Pack	1999	TV Series documentary	Herself
Fox Studios Australia: The Grand Opening	1999	TV Movie documentary	Herself
CNN NewsStand	1999	TV Series	Herself
Pop 2000: 50 Jahre Popmusik und Jugendkultur in Deutschland	1999	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself
The Century: America's Time	1999	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself
Playboy: Playmate Pajama Party	1999	Video documentary	Herself
PBS NewsHour	1999	TV Series	Herself
Sharon Stone - Una mujer de 100 caras	1998	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Die kranken Schwestern	1998	TV Series	Herself
Marilyn in Manhattan	1998	TV Movie	Herself
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream	1998	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years	1997	TV Movie documentary	Herself
The Fifties	1997	TV Mini-Series documentary	Herself (with GIs in Korea) (uncredited)
L.A. Confidential	1997		Herself (uncredited)
20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years	1997	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life	1997	Documentary	Herself - Visits Korea (uncredited)
Intimate Portrait	1996	TV Series documentary	Herself
The Good, the Bad & the Beautiful	1996	TV Special documentary	Herself
Legends of Entertainment Video	1995	Video documentary	Herself
Kelsey Grammer Salutes Jack Benny	1995	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie	1995	Video documentary	Herself
The Casting Couch	1995	Video documentary
Things That Aren't Here Anymore	1995	TV Movie documentary	Herself
That's Entertainment! III	1994	Documentary	Performer in Clip from 'The Asphalt Jungle' (uncredited)
Imágenes prohibidas	1994	TV Series documentary	Amanda Dell
Fame in the Twentieth Century	1993	TV Series documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Death Scenes 2	1992	Video documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Playboy Playmates: The Early Years	1992	Video documentary	Herself
The Marilyn Files	1992	TV Movie	Herself
Marilyn: The Last Interview	1992	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Hard Copy	1992	TV Series	Herself
Gesichter Des Todes VII	1992	Video documentary short
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star	1991	Documentary	Actress 'River of No Return' (uncredited)
Marilyn: Something's Got to Give	1990	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Death in Hollywood	1990	Video documentary	Herself
Hotels	1990	TV Series documentary	Herself
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths	1990	Video documentary	Herself
Phil Collins: I Wish It Would Rain Down	1990	Video short	Herself
11-22-63: The Day the Nation Cried	1989	TV Movie documentary	Herself (in Korea) (uncredited)
Inside Edition	1989	TV Series documentary	Herself
Hollywood Remembers Marilyn Monroe	1989	Video documentary short	Herself
Two Tragic Blondes	1989	Video documentary	Herself
Hollywood Sex Symbols	1988	Video documentary short
The 1950's: Music, Memories & Milestones	1988	Video documentary	Herself
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick	1988	Documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Hollywood Uncensored	1987	Documentary	Herself
Remembering Marilyn	1987	Documentary	Herself
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend	1987	Documentary	Herself
Arsenal	1987	TV Series
The Family	1987		Herself (uncredited)
Women in Rock	1986	Video documentary	Herself
Baby Love	1986	TV Movie	Herself (uncredited)
Volunteers	1985		Herself (uncredited)
The Rock 'n' Roll Years	1985	TV Series	Herself
Say Goodbye to the President	1985	TV Movie documentary	Herself
The Moviemakers	1985	TV Series	Herself
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	1983	Documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Hollywood's Private Home Movies	1983	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Hollywood: The Gift of Laughter	1982	TV Movie documentary	Actress - 'Some Like It Hot' (uncredited)
The Comoedia	1981		Herself
Sixty Years of Seduction	1981	TV Movie documentary
In Search of...	1981	TV Series documentary	Herself
Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972	1980	TV Movie documentary	Herself
Arthur Miller on Home Ground	1979	TV Movie documentary
Ken Murray Shooting Stars	1979	Documentary	Herself
Good Old Days Part II	1978	TV Special	Herself
Fred Astaire Salutes the Fox Musicals	1974	TV Movie	Herself
The Dick Cavett Show	1973	TV Series	Ellen Arden from unfinished film SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE / Lorelei Lee from film GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES
Marilyn Times Five	1973	Short	Performer, bye bye baby
Hollywood Babylon	1972		Herself (uncredited)
Tatsachen über Legenden	1971	TV Series documentary	Herself
I due Kennedy	1969	Documentary	Herself
ABC Stage 67	1966	TV Series	Herself
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe	1966	Documentary	Herself
Film Preview	1966	TV Series	Chérie
The Love Goddesses	1965	Documentary	Herself
Hollywood and the Stars	1964	TV Series	Herself
Marilyn	1963	Documentary	Herself
La rabbia	1963	Documentary	Herself
Hollywood: The Great Stars	1963	TV Movie documentary	Herself (uncredited)
Die Reporter der Windrose berichten	1963	TV Series documentary	Herself
Hollywood Without Make-Up	1963	Documentary	Herself
Hollywood: The Fabulous Era	1962	TV Movie documentary	Herself

Won awards

Won awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1962	Henrietta Award	Golden Globes, USA	World Film Favorite - Female
1960	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy	Some Like It Hot (1959)
1960	Star on the Walk of Fame	Walk of Fame	Motion Picture	On 8 February 1960. At 6778 Hollywood Blvd.
1958	Golden Plate	David di Donatello Awards		The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
1954	Henrietta Award	Golden Globes, USA	World Film Favorite - Female
1953	Most Popular Female Star	Photoplay Awards
1952	Special Award	Photoplay Awards

Nominated awards

Nominated awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1962	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Top Female Star	10th place.
1961	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Top Female Star	10th place.
1960	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Top Female Star	6th place.
1959	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Top Female Star	6th place.
1958	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Foreign Actress	The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
1958	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Top Female Star	14th place.
1958	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Top Female Comedy Performance	The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
1957	Golden Globe	Golden Globes, USA	Best Motion Picture Actress - Comedy/Musical	Bus Stop (1956)
1956	BAFTA Film Award	BAFTA Awards	Best Foreign Actress	The Seven Year Itch (1955)

2nd place awards

2nd place awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1960	Golden Laurel	Laurel Awards	Top Female Comedy Performance	Some Like It Hot (1959)



Title	Salary
Something's Got to Give (1962)	$100 -500K
The Misfits (1961)	$300,000
Some Like It Hot (1959)	$300,000 + 10% gross over $4,000,000
Bus Stop (1956)	$100,000 +500/week expenses
Bus Stop (1956)	$100,000 + $500/week expenses
The Seven Year Itch (1955)	$1,500 /wk
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)	$1,000 /wk
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)	$1,250 /wk
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)	$18,000
We're Not Married! (1952)	$750 /wk
Clash by Night (1952)	$500 /week
Clash by Night (1952)	$500 / wk
All About Eve (1950)	$500 /wk, 1-wk guarantee
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)	$1,050
Love Happy (1949)	$100
Ladies of the Chorus (1948)	$125 /week
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)	$75 /week
Dangerous Years (1947)	$75 /week
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)	$75 /week
Something's Got to Give (1962)	$100 -500K
The Misfits (1961)	$300,000
Some Like It Hot (1959)	$300,000 + 10% gross over $4,000,000
Bus Stop (1956)	$100,000 +500/week expenses
Bus Stop (1956)	$100,000 + $500/week expenses
The Seven Year Itch (1955)	$1,500 /wk
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)	$1,000 /wk
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)	$1,250 /wk
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)	$18,000
We're Not Married! (1952)	$750 /wk
Clash by Night (1952)	$500 /week
Clash by Night (1952)	$500 / wk
All About Eve (1950)	$500 /wk, 1-wk guarantee
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)	$1,050
Love Happy (1949)	$100
Ladies of the Chorus (1948)	$125 /week
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)	$75 /week
Dangerous Years (1947)	$75 /week
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)	$75 /week



#	Quote
1	To everyone who thinks they're ugly because they're not a size 0, you're the beautiful one and it's society that's ugly.
2	Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
3	The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
4	Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are stupid. A woman can bring a new love to each man that she loves, providing that there are not too many.
5	I want the world to see my body.
6	I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.
7	Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!
8	Fame is like caviar. It's good to have caviar, but not every damned day!
9	Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.
10	There is nothing positive about being fat. And there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society's expectations of who we are and if we don't, who will? Life is more enjoyable when you are thin and pretty. I was never fat a day in my life and I never will.
11	For the first family I lived with, to go to a movie was a sin. Every night I was told to pray that I would not wake up in hell.
12	People had a habit of looking at me like I was some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
13	I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
14	We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
15	Who said nights were for sleep?
16	I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell, she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. I said, finally, I really got to this kind of level, I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!"
17	When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
18	I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.
19	I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
20	It might be kind of a relief to be finished. It's sort of like you don't know what kind of a yard dash you're running, but then you're at the finish line and you sort of sigh - you've made it! But you never have. You have to start all over again.
21	[why she converted to Judaism] I believe in everything a little, and if I have kids, I think they should be Jewish. Anyway, I can identify with the Jews. Everybody's out to get them no matter what they do.
22	Drugs pull you down and shut the lid on life. Pot opens everything up. All the anxieties, the creepy crawly blues, it all just drifts away and you can slowly remember what it feels like to be alive. Even more importantly, you can take a step back from the crap that's flying and see what really is important, which of the many things in your life really deserves worrying about. Not much!
23	Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
24	I have favorite motion-picture stars, like everyone else. You know who mine are? My favorite is Marlon Brando. I mean, really, I believe we'd be an interesting combination. I've said that about Marlon for a long time, but we haven't found the right story. Can you imagine us on the big screen? I hope something happens soon. Greta Garbo, I've never met her. It really bugs me when I miss one of her films on TV. Oh, if you could only get me to meet her! I've also heard wonderful things about Jeanne Eagels and Laurette Taylor. And the one they called the Blond Bombshell: Jean Harlow. Kay Kendall was a great comedian. She was really talented. I would have loved working with Gerard Philipe, the handsome French star- his films I've been told were a huge success in France, as were his stage plays. I was told he wanted to make films with me. Oh, what a shame we never got the opportunity. We would have made an interesting team. What a shame. He was so young to die; he was thirty-six. He had been ill and apparently died of a heart attack.
25	People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.
26	What the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.
27	As long as I can remember, I've always loved people.
28	[on homosexuality] No sex is wrong if there's love involved.
29	Executives can get colds and stay home and phone in - but the actor? How dare you get a cold or a virus! I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection! I'm there to give a performance, not to be disciplined by a studio. This isn't supposed to be a military school, after all.
30	How or why I can act - and I'm not sure I can - is the thing for me to understand. The torture, let alone the day to day happenings - the pain one cannot explain to another.
31	The other girls rode to school in a bus. I had no nickel to pay for the ride. Rain or shine, I walked the two miles from my "aunt's" home to the school. I hated the walk, I hated the school. I had no friends. The pupils seldom talked to me and never wanted me in their games. Nobody ever walked home with me or invited me to visit their homes. This was partly because I came from the poor part of the district where all the Mexicans and Japanese lived. It was also because I couldn't smile at anyone.
32	Suicide is a person's privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime, it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.
33	When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.
34	I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
35	[on shooting the famous scene in The Seven Year Itch (1955) where wind from the subway beneath blows her skirt up] At first it was all innocent and fun, but when Billy Wilder kept shooting the scene over and over the crowd of men kept on applauding and shouting, 'More, more Marilyn - let's see more.' What was supposed to be a fun scene turned into a sex scene.
36	Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.
37	I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
38	I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
39	I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
40	I love to do things that censors won't pass.
41	The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
42	I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me.
43	[on Arthur Miller's script for 'The Misfits'] Arthur did this to me. He could have written anything and he comes up with this. If that's what he thinks of me, well, then I'm not for him and he's not for me. Arthur says it's his movie. I don't think he even wants me in it.
44	I did what they said and all it got me was a lot of abuse. Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal.
45	It was the creative part that kept me going, trying to be an actress. I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
46	It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
47	Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50c for your soul.
48	[on Peter Lawford] I have a need to be frightened and nothing really in my personal relationships and dealings lately have been frightening me, except for him. I felt very uneasy at different times with him, the real reason I was afraid of him is because I believe him to be homosexual...Peter wants to be a woman and would like to be me, I think.
49	I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
50	Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
51	[on Marlon Brando] He's very sweet and tender, not at all the Stanley Kowalski rapist people think he is.
52	[on Sunday being the loneliest day of the week for her] All the men I know are spending the day with their wives and families, and all the stores in Los Angeles are closed. You can't wander through looking at all the pretty clothes and pretending to buy something.
53	[on John F. Kennedy] When he has finished his achievements, he will take his place with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and [Franklin D. Roosevelt] as one of our greatest Presidents. I'm glad he has [Robert F. Kennedy]. It's like the Navy. The President is the Captain and Bobby is his Executive Officer. Bobby would do absolutely anything for his brother. And so would I. I'll never embarrass him. As long as I have memory, I have John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
54	[on James Joyce and the character of Molly Bloom in Ulysses] Here is Joyce writing what a woman thinks to herself. Can he, does he really know her innermost thoughts? But after I read the whole book, I could better understand that Joyce is an artist who could penetrate the souls of people, male or female. It really doesn't matter that Joyce doesn't have...or never felt a menstrual cramp. To me Leopold Bloom is a central character. He is the despised Irish Jew, married to an Irish Catholic woman. It is through them Joyce develops much of what he wants to say. Do you agree that the scene where Bloom is looking at the little girl on the swing is the most erotic in the book?
55	[on Sigmund Freud] I read his "Introductory Lectures," God, what a genius. He makes it so understandable. And he is so right. Didn't he say himself that [William Shakespeare] and [Fyodor Dostoevsky] had a better understanding of psychology than all the scientists put together? Damn it, they do.
56	When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
57	[on Laurence Olivier on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)] Olivier came into my dressing room to give me hell for screwing up. I soothed him by telling him I thought his Hamlet (1948) was one of the greatest films ever made. You know he won an Oscar for it.
58	Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.
59	[on Mae West] A nice lady even though she turned down making a picture with me. That just shows how smart she is.
60	[on Frank Sinatra] He is a man at the top of his profession and is a fine actor as well. You know, he got an Oscar for From Here to Eternity (1953). He has helped more people anonymously than anybody else. And the miserable press smears him with lies about his being involved with the Mafia and gangsters. And Frank just takes it.
61	Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.
62	[on Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift] Marlon's kinda hard to tie down, they say. He's never sure what he wants to do. He and Monty Clift have a lot in common, though they're totally different people, but they don't plan their careers too well and they're not ambitious enough for their talents.
63	I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.
64	[about Montgomery Clift] He's the only person I know that is in worse shape than I am.
65	I want to be an artist... not an erotic freak. I don't want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiacal.
66	Talent is developed in privacy... but everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk at you. They'd kind of like to take pieces out of you.
67	I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public -- talent in private.
68	[on John F. Kennedy] It would be so nice to have a president who looks so young and good-looking.
69	I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
70	I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.
71	[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] said, "Talent is developed in privacy", you know? And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.
72	[on stardom] It scares me. All those people I don't know, sometimes they're so emotional. I mean, if they love you that much without knowing you, they can also hate you the same way.
73	I used to say to myself, "What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?" And I'd answer, "Everything, everything".
74	The trouble with censors is they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
75	I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."
76	Wouldn't it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt and sleep with most attractive men and not get emotionally involved?
77	You know, when you grow up you can get kind of sour, I mean, that's the way it can go.
78	I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.
79	Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
80	There was my name up in lights. I said, "God, somebody's made a mistake!" But there it was in lights. And I sat there and said, "Remember, you're not a star". Yet there it was up in lights.
81	An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin?
82	[on her famous nude calendar pose in 1949] My sin has been no more than I have written, posing for the nude because I desperately needed 50 dollars to get my car out of hock.
83	If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
84	My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
85	Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has it's compensations but it also has it's drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
86	It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings.
87	I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it.
88	It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
89	I want to grow old without face-lifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face that I have made.
90	If I had observed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere.
91	To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
92	The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them---and fooling them.
93	A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
94	People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
95	I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I never had belonged to anything or anyone else.
96	Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, Fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle.
97	Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
98	Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
99	In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
100	No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
101	I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
102	A dollar for your thoughts...
103	Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die, young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know yourself...
104	A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
105	I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
106	[on her early marriage to James Dougherty] Grace McKee arranged the marriage for me, I never had a choice. There's not much to say about it. They couldn't support me, and they had to work out something. And so I got married.
107	[on drifting in and out of orphanages when she was little] The world around me then was kind of grim. I had to learn to pretend in order to - I don't know - block the grimness. The whole world seemed sort of closed to me . . . [I felt] on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up any kind of pretend game.
108	[on her favorite actress] Jean Harlow was my idol.
109	I want to be a big star more than anything. It's something precious.
110	[on why her marriage to Joe DiMaggio didn't work] I didn't want to give up my career, and that's what Joe wanted me to do most of all.
111	[on why she divorced James Dougherty] My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.
112	[on why Joe DiMaggio didn't accompany her on one of her USO tours] Joe hates crowds and glamor.
113	[on meeting Joe DiMaggio for the first time] I was surprised to be so crazy about Joe. I expected a flashy New York sports type, and instead I met this reserved guy who didn't make a pass at me right away! He treated me like something special. Joe is a very decent man, and he makes other people feel decent, too.
114	[on living with the Bolenders when she was a little girl] They were terribly strict. They didn't mean any harm . . . it was their religion. They brought me up harshly.
115	My problem is that I drive myself... I'm trying to become an artist, and to be true, and sometimes I feel I'm on the verge of craziness, I'm just trying to get the truest part of myself out, and it's very hard. There are times when I think, 'All I have to be is true'. But sometimes it doesn't come out so easily. I always have this secret feeling that I'm really a fake or something, a phony.
116	I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there's something going on inside them.
117	The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.
118	Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are stupid. A woman can bring a new love to each man that she loves, providing that there are not too many.
119	I want the world to see my body.
120	I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans.
121	Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!
122	Fame is like caviar. It's good to have caviar, but not every damned day!
123	Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer.
124	There is nothing positive about being fat. And there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society's expectations of who we are and if we don't, who will? Life is more enjoyable when you are thin and pretty. I was never fat a day in my life and I never will.
125	People had a habit of looking at me like I was some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
126	I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.
127	We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
128	Who said nights were for sleep?
129	I remember when I got the part in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jane Russell, she was the brunette in it and I was the blonde. She got $200,000 for it, and I got my $500 a week, but that to me was, you know, considerable. She, by the way, was quite wonderful to me. The only thing was I couldn't get a dressing room. I said, finally, I really got to this kind of level, I said, "Look, after all, I am the blonde, and it is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes!" Because still they always kept saying, "Remember, you're not a star." I said, "Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!"
130	When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
131	I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.
132	I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous.
133	It might be kind of a relief to be finished. It's sort of like you don't know what kind of a yard dash you're running, but then you're at the finish line and you sort of sigh - you've made it! But you never have. You have to start all over again.
134	[why she converted to Judaism] I believe in everything a little, and if I have kids, I think they should be Jewish. Anyway, I can identify with the Jews. Everybody's out to get them no matter what they do.
135	Drugs pull you down and shut the lid on life. Pot opens everything up. All the anxieties, the creepy crawly blues, it all just drifts away and you can slowly remember what it feels like to be alive. Even more importantly, you can take a step back from the crap that's flying and see what really is important, which of the many things in your life really deserves worrying about. Not much!
136	Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
137	I have favorite motion-picture stars, like everyone else. You know who mine are? My favorite is Marlon Brando. I mean, really, I believe we'd be an interesting combination. I've said that about Marlon for a long time, but we haven't found the right story. Can you imagine us on the big screen? I hope something happens soon. Greta Garbo, I've never met her. It really bugs me when I miss one of her films on TV. Oh, if you could only get me to meet her! I've also heard wonderful things about Jeanne Eagels and Laurette Taylor. And the one they called the Blond Bombshell: Jean Harlow. Kay Kendall was a great comedian. She was really talented. I would have loved working with Gerard Philipe, the handsome French star- his films I've been told were a huge success in France, as were his stage plays. I was told he wanted to make films with me. Oh, what a shame we never got the opportunity. We would have made an interesting team. What a shame. He was so young to die; he was thirty-six. He had been ill and apparently died of a heart attack.
138	People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.
139	What the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.
140	As long as I can remember, I've always loved people.
141	[on homosexuality] No sex is wrong if there's love involved.
142	Executives can get colds and stay home and phone in - but the actor? How dare you get a cold or a virus! I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection! I'm there to give a performance, not to be disciplined by a studio. This isn't supposed to be a military school, after all.
143	How or why I can act - and I'm not sure I can - is the thing for me to understand. The torture, let alone the day to day happenings - the pain one cannot explain to another.
144	The other girls rode to school in a bus. I had no nickel to pay for the ride. Rain or shine, I walked the two miles from my "aunt's" home to the school. I hated the walk, I hated the school. I had no friends. The pupils seldom talked to me and never wanted me in their games. Nobody ever walked home with me or invited me to visit their homes. This was partly because I came from the poor part of the district where all the Mexicans and Japanese lived. It was also because I couldn't smile at anyone.
145	Suicide is a person's privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime, it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.
146	When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.
147	I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
148	[on shooting the famous scene in The Seven Year Itch (1955) where wind from the subway beneath blows her skirt up] At first it was all innocent and fun, but when Billy Wilder kept shooting the scene over and over the crowd of men kept on applauding and shouting, 'More, more Marilyn - let's see more.' What was supposed to be a fun scene turned into a sex scene.
149	Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.
150	I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
151	I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.
152	I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
153	I love to do things that censors won't pass.
154	The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
155	I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me.
156	[on Arthur Miller's script for 'The Misfits'] Arthur did this to me. He could have written anything and he comes up with this. If that's what he thinks of me, well, then I'm not for him and he's not for me. Arthur says it's his movie. I don't think he even wants me in it.
157	I did what they said and all it got me was a lot of abuse. Everyone's just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal.
158	It was the creative part that kept me going, trying to be an actress. I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.
159	It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
160	Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you $50,000 for a kiss and 50c for your soul.
161	[on Peter Lawford] I have a need to be frightened and nothing really in my personal relationships and dealings lately have been frightening me, except for him. I felt very uneasy at different times with him, the real reason I was afraid of him is because I believe him to be homosexual...Peter wants to be a woman and would like to be me, I think.
162	I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
163	Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.
164	[on Marlon Brando] He's very sweet and tender, not at all the Stanley Kowalski rapist people think he is.
165	[on Sunday being the loneliest day of the week for her] All the men I know are spending the day with their wives and families, and all the stores in Los Angeles are closed. You can't wander through looking at all the pretty clothes and pretending to buy something.
166	[on John F. Kennedy] When he has finished his achievements, he will take his place with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and [Franklin D. Roosevelt] as one of our greatest Presidents. I'm glad he has [Robert F. Kennedy]. It's like the Navy. The President is the Captain and Bobby is his Executive Officer. Bobby would do absolutely anything for his brother. And so would I. I'll never embarrass him. As long as I have memory, I have John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
167	[on James Joyce and the character of Molly Bloom in Ulysses] Here is Joyce writing what a woman thinks to herself. Can he, does he really know her innermost thoughts? But after I read the whole book, I could better understand that Joyce is an artist who could penetrate the souls of people, male or female. It really doesn't matter that Joyce doesn't have...or never felt a menstrual cramp. To me Leopold Bloom is a central character. He is the despised Irish Jew, married to an Irish Catholic woman. It is through them Joyce develops much of what he wants to say. Do you agree that the scene where Bloom is looking at the little girl on the swing is the most erotic in the book?
168	[on Sigmund Freud] I read his "Introductory Lectures," God, what a genius. He makes it so understandable. And he is so right. Didn't he say himself that [William Shakespeare] and [Fyodor Dostoevsky] had a better understanding of psychology than all the scientists put together? Damn it, they do.
169	When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.
170	[on Laurence Olivier on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)] Olivier came into my dressing room to give me hell for screwing up. I soothed him by telling him I thought his Hamlet (1948) was one of the greatest films ever made. You know he won an Oscar for it.
171	Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy.
172	[on Mae West] A nice lady even though she turned down making a picture with me. That just shows how smart she is.
173	[on Frank Sinatra] He is a man at the top of his profession and is a fine actor as well. You know, he got an Oscar for From Here to Eternity (1953). He has helped more people anonymously than anybody else. And the miserable press smears him with lies about his being involved with the Mafia and gangsters. And Frank just takes it.
174	Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine.
175	[on Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift] Marlon's kinda hard to tie down, they say. He's never sure what he wants to do. He and Monty Clift have a lot in common, though they're totally different people, but they don't plan their careers too well and they're not ambitious enough for their talents.
176	I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.
177	[about Montgomery Clift] He's the only person I know that is in worse shape than I am.
178	I want to be an artist... not an erotic freak. I don't want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiacal.
179	Talent is developed in privacy... but everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk at you. They'd kind of like to take pieces out of you.
180	I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public -- talent in private.
181	[on John F. Kennedy] It would be so nice to have a president who looks so young and good-looking.
182	I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
183	I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.
184	[Johann Wolfgang Goethe] said, "Talent is developed in privacy", you know? And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting.
185	[on stardom] It scares me. All those people I don't know, sometimes they're so emotional. I mean, if they love you that much without knowing you, they can also hate you the same way.
186	I used to say to myself, "What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?" And I'd answer, "Everything, everything".
187	The trouble with censors is they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
188	I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."
189	Wouldn't it be nice to be like men and get notches in your belt and sleep with most attractive men and not get emotionally involved?
190	You know, when you grow up you can get kind of sour, I mean, that's the way it can go.
191	I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time.
192	Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
193	There was my name up in lights. I said, "God, somebody's made a mistake!" But there it was in lights. And I sat there and said, "Remember, you're not a star". Yet there it was up in lights.
194	An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everyone jumped on his violin?
195	[on her famous nude calendar pose in 1949] My sin has been no more than I have written, posing for the nude because I desperately needed 50 dollars to get my car out of hock.
196	If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
197	My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!
198	Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has it's compensations but it also has it's drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
199	It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, you know, of any kind of nature - and it won't hurt your feelings.
200	I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it.
201	It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
202	I want to grow old without face-lifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face that I have made.
203	If I had observed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere.
204	To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.
205	The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them---and fooling them.
206	A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
207	People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
208	I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I never had belonged to anything or anyone else.
209	Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, Fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle.
210	Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.
211	Dogs never bite me. Just humans.
212	In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty.
213	No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
214	I've been on a calendar, but never on time.
215	A dollar for your thoughts...
216	Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die, young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know yourself...
217	A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
218	I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.
219	[on her early marriage to James Dougherty] Grace McKee arranged the marriage for me, I never had a choice. There's not much to say about it. They couldn't support me, and they had to work out something. And so I got married.
220	[on drifting in and out of orphanages when she was little] The world around me then was kind of grim. I had to learn to pretend in order to - I don't know - block the grimness. The whole world seemed sort of closed to me . . . [I felt] on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up any kind of pretend game.
221	[on her favorite actress] Jean Harlow was my idol.
222	I want to be a big star more than anything. It's something precious.
223	[on why her marriage to Joe DiMaggio didn't work] I didn't want to give up my career, and that's what Joe wanted me to do most of all.
224	[on why she divorced James Dougherty] My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom.
225	[on why Joe DiMaggio didn't accompany her on one of her USO tours] Joe hates crowds and glamor.
226	[on meeting Joe DiMaggio for the first time] I was surprised to be so crazy about Joe. I expected a flashy New York sports type, and instead I met this reserved guy who didn't make a pass at me right away! He treated me like something special. Joe is a very decent man, and he makes other people feel decent, too.
227	[on living with the Bolenders when she was a little girl] They were terribly strict. They didn't mean any harm . . . it was their religion. They brought me up harshly.
228	My problem is that I drive myself... I'm trying to become an artist, and to be true, and sometimes I feel I'm on the verge of craziness, I'm just trying to get the truest part of myself out, and it's very hard. There are times when I think, 'All I have to be is true'. But sometimes it doesn't come out so easily. I always have this secret feeling that I'm really a fake or something, a phony.
229	I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there's something going on inside them.



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