Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto

Author:Donald Spoto [Spoto, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 2001-05-30T12:00:00+00:00

1. For all the boldness and the ambiguity of her adoption of disguises, there was still the fundamental crisis of identity, to which Marilyn even referred jokingly. When Susan Strasberg once said she was in conflict about something and that she felt she had another voice clamoring inside her head, Marilyn remarked, “You have only one voice? I have a whole committee!”

2. However much Hollywood marketed Marilyn and sex, it continued to reward elegance: the Oscars in 1953 and 1954 were handed to Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. Even later, her extraordinary work in Bus Stop and The Prince and the Showgirl was ignored by colleagues: Marilyn, who had the temerity to have spent a year away from Hollywood, was not even nominated for an Academy Award.

3. Curiously, however—perhaps because it had to be done with the express approval of the attorney general—there was no extensive security check conducted on Marilyn during 1955.

4. At the time, the top corporation tax was fifty-three percent, while the top personal income tax was eighty-eight percent.

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