Video: What blondes read: favorite books by Marilyn Monroe
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
As you know, gentlemen prefer blondes. Perhaps that is why Marilyn Monroe managed to become a symbol of an entire era and conquer the hearts of millions of men. However, the light and carefree "screen" image actually did not correspond much to the inner world of a sexy beauty. One of the hobbies that Marilyn preferred to keep quiet about is reading, with a book in her hands, she spent a lot of time.
Popular culture produces a lot of stereotypes. External attractiveness and a high level of IQ are "poorly matched" qualities. As a rule, they fall in love with pretty ugly girls not for their ability to maintain small talk, but for their pretty face, a seductive figure and a smile that gives hope.
In the case of Marilyn Monroe, everything corresponds to the classic scenario: a sex symbol should not get carried away with books, because the best friends of girls are diamonds, Cadillacs and beauty salons. That is why there is one on the screen, and another in life. Despite the lack of university education, the Hollywood star was well versed in politics, founded her own production company, loved literature and even tried to write poems herself, was interested in history and read a lot.
On Marilyn's bookshelf, one could see the works of John Milton, Gustav Flaubert and Kahlil Gibran, among the modern classics she especially singled out Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett and Jack Kerouac. One of the most famous photographs of Monroe holding a book was a color photograph taken by Eva Arnold. On the playground during leisure hours, the legendary actress read the novel "Ulysses" by James Joyce. The photographer herself later admitted that the meeting with the star was not planned, but accidental, so that the photo was by no means staged. Marilyn complained that it was very difficult for her to perceive the text, and she took the book in the car for a long time, and it took a lot of effort not to drown in the stream of consciousness and read the “Dublin” novel to the end.
Like many creative people, Marilyn Monroe tried to write herself, putting emotional experiences in poetic form. Of course, her poems are imperfect aesthetically, but in them one can feel melancholy, bordering on love of life, passions that gripped the soul of a rebellious blond angel.
Oh shit, I would like to die - not exist - get out of here - disappear from everywhere, but as there is a bridge - the Brooklyn Bridge - But I love this bridge (from it you can see the air is clear) when you walk on it, everything seems calm even despite all these crazy cars below … So it must be another bridge, ugly, without a view - only I like almost all bridges - there are some of them, and besides, I have never seen an ugly bridge
These lines are the harbingers of a tragic death, which is why they are not easy to read. It's just as hard to look at the last photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe, because the last smiles of the legend are captured in the cheerful photographs.
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