Have you ever looked at a picture of someone and tried to imagine who they really are? Not who they appear to be or pretend to be but who they are when no one is looking. Look at these two pictures of Marilyn Monroe and how different she appears in each one.
The other night I watched the movie “Some Like it Hot” and read a few blurbs online about her, and it seems that she lived a life where she was never “off-stage” once she began making movies. And center stage, at that. I think it shows in every picture she took as "Marilyn." I’m sure this is true for a lot of celebrities today, but I can’t think of anyone who is as famous as she still is today. Her screen persona became who everyone thought she really was so in a sense she was living in a prison. But the blonde hair, the beauty mark, the doe eyes, and breathy voice clearly were for show, all of it fabricated. Some have said that she was extremely vulnerable and troubled underneath all that, stressed over too much movie-making, conflict in her personal life and a miscarriage she’d had. They say she popped pills regularly just to fall asleep and quiet her raving thoughts. Looking at the transformation in these pictures, I am intrigued with knowing what she thought of herself. I think that she was probably high on drugs in many of her most famous photos, hence the droopy, “seductive” eyes. She wasn’t in film or Hollywood
The original blonde bombshell, sex goddess was once a telephone operated with dark brown hair and buttoned up blouses. She became larger than life in such a short period of time and the pressure of it all became her demise before she reached the age of 40. But the publics’ fascination with her may never cease.
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