“One of the most unappreciated people in the world.”
– Joshua Logan on Marilyn Monroe
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be
absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Will the wind ever remember / the names it has blown in the past?”
– Jimi Hendrix, “The Wind Cries Mary”
There’s something about Marilyn that can bring tears to the eyes like no other actress can do, and that fact does not arise from any one movie she made, whether good or bad, unless it’s The Misfits, her last, in which she is truly brilliant as a performer; she flowers and blooms into a new “her” in that film, especially in a few scenes.
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