MARILYN MONROE

As a teen I thought Marilyn was the best. What else do male teens think about other than good looking babes they can't have?

Mom: She's just a stupid blond. Marilyn can't act. She can't do anything.

Me: And your point was?

Marilyn was the same age as mom and maybe that in some screwed up way was her point: Mom would have rather been Marilyn than a housewife with two kids and a husband she couldn't stand.

There was no arguing about Marilyn. So what if she couldn't act. Just turn down the sound and watch the movie cured that.

How fun it would have been to be "cheek to cheek" with Marilyn.

Marilyn lived a tragic life or so they say. Always unhappy. Always depressed. Never on time to for movie shoots.

Some say she was deathly afraid of acting before the camera. Maybe Marilyn knew what Mom knew.

Acting or no acting, oh what a beauty she was.

Do they make 'em like this anymore?




















n her early days she was Norma Jean. Then Hollywood happened and Norma transformed into Marilyn. The girl became a woman.


The last completed movie Marilyn made was the Misfits. The Misfits was Clark Gable's last film before dying shortly after of a heart attack.

Marilyn died of an overdose a year later.

Years later there remains whether her death was really self inflicted. Marilyn had rubbed elbows with politicians in high places who perhaps were worried that one day she would "out" them.

I have no clue why I'm writing about Norma Jean this morning.