Awesome Norma Jean
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I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Awesome Norma Jean
She was to be the iconic, very first Playboy centerfold Sweetheart of December 1953, which immediately pushed her popularity way up – no real surprise that, in 1995 UK magazine Empire voted her the Sexiest Female Movie Star of All Time.
It was 1926, June 1st 1926, that Norma Jean Morteson was born, the girl whose brief life would see her become the sexual fantasy of movie-watching men all over the planet, at Los Angeles General Hospital, after her uncaring father had abandoned her mother.
Despite the rough and tumble of a childhood spent with a wayward mother, she developed into a real beauty, becoming Miss California Artichoke Queen in 1947. Her mother had changed her surname to Baker, but the girl wanted a catchier handle, and opted for the name Marylin Monroe.
She was to be the iconic, very first Playboy centerfold Sweetheart of December 1953, which immediately pushed her popularity way up – no real surprise that, in 1995 UK magazine Empire voted her the Sexiest Female Movie Star of All Time.
Marilyn was not easy to handle, as several husbands discovered to their cost, yet she always maintained that she was just an average girl really - Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. – was her unique take on the hectic life she led
Her sexuality and perfect pout made her a Hollywood legend in no time, and yet her life was far from happy, one of her more famous quotes being - I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Perhaps one of the most defining moments of her extraordinary story was the night she made her last public appearance. Having left the set of Something's Got to Give, the movie she famously never finished, she had decided to perform a birthday salute to President John F. Kennedy at the Democratic Party fundraiser.
Rumor has it that Marilyn paid, herself, $1,000 for her ticket! On the evening of May 18, 1962, in a gala featuring the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee, possibly the most legendary moment in American pop culture history happened.
Captured, in this video, though not really well, is the picture of Marilyn 's breathy Happy Birthday rendition, a scene forever stamped in the collective consciousness of all alive at that time. Her skin and beads Jean Louis dress, her deliberately disjointed and uncertain performance was masterful.
This single incident told us so much about that which had always troubled her, the vulnerability and insecurity that plagued her career. Sold at auction by New York Christie's, October 1999 for 1.2 million dollars the dress entered the Guinness book of records as the most expensive ever sold.
Public interest in Marilyn Monroe just seems to grow stronger with each passing year, and perhaps her own words about herself help to make herk legendary status that bit clearer - I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. – We may never actually have seen the very best of this screen goddess, but we were truly privileged, all the same.
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13th Apr 2012 (#)
Ah, yes, the iconic Marilyn Monroe. Such a tragic life she lived from stardom. Thanks, Tony.
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