director Lee Strasberga nd also underwent psychoanalysisto learn more about herself.C riticsp raisedh er transformationi n Bus Stop (1956) and the pressw as stunned by her marriage to playwright Arthur Miller. True to form, she had no veil to match her beige wedding dress so she dyed one in coffee; he wore one of the two suits he owned.T hey went to Englandt hat fall where she made The Princea nd the Showgirl(lgs7) with Laurence Olivier, fighting with him and falling further prey to alcohola nd pills.T wo miscarriagesa nd gynecologicasl urgeryf ollowed.S o did an affair with Yves Montand. Work on her last picture The Misfits (1961), written for her by depafting husband Miller was interrupted by exhaustion, She was dropped from the unfinished …show more content…
She was dropped from the unfinished Something's Gotta Give (1g62)due to chronic lateness and drug dependency.
In 1960, Marilyn appeared in George Cukor's Let's Make Love (1960), with Tony Randall And
Yves Montand. Again, while it made money, it was critically panned as stodgy and slow-moving. The following year, Marilyn made what was to be hsr final film. The Misfits(1961), which also proved to be the final film forthe legendary Clark Gable, who died laterthatyearof aheart attack. The film was popularwith critics and the public alike. ln 1962, Marilyn was chosen to star in Fox's Something's Gotta
Give (1962). Again, her absenteeism caused delay after delay in production, resulting in her being fired from the production in June of that year. It looked as though her career was finished. Studios just didn't want to take a chance on her because it would cost them thousands of dollars in delays. She was only 36 years old.
On August 4, 1962, Marilyn Monroe's day began with threatening phone calls. Dr. Ralph
Greenson, Marilyn's physician, came over the following day and quoted later in a document "felt it was possible that Marilyn Monroe had felt rejected by some of the people she had been close to". Apart
Inherit the Wind. Dir. Stanley Kramer. With Spencer Tracy, Fredrick March, and Gene Kelly. MGM. 1960.
Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder in 1950 is based on how Norma Desmond, a huge Hollywood star, deals with her fall from fame. The film explores the fantasy world in which Norma is living in and the complex relationship between her and small time writer Joe Gillis, which leads to his death. Sunset Boulevard is seen as lifting the ‘face’ of the Hollywood Studio System to reveal the truth behind the organisation. During the time the film was released in the 1950s and 60s, audiences started to see the demise of Hollywood as cinema going began to decline and the fierce competition of television almost proved too much for the well established system. Throughout this essay I will discuss how Sunset Boulevard represents the Hollywood Studio System, as well as exploring post war literature giving reasons as to why the system began to crumble.
Robert Kennedy was determined to keep Monroe quiet so the information he and John revealed to her during their affairs would was not revealed, and he did not care about the consequences. According to Jay Margolis author of Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder, Robert was even reported to have threatened Monroe around the time of her death he stated that “If you threaten me, Marilyn, there’s more than one way to keep you quiet” (229), this proves that Robert Kennedy had motive and the means to kill her if it came down to it. The autopsy report also rules out suicide as an option for her cause of death. The report stated that there were no traces of the pills in her stomach she supposedly overdosed and there was nothing to drink in the room, with no signs of vomiting which is common during an overdose. This also eliminates the fact that she accidentally overdosed as an option because the levels of drugs found in her blood were several times over the legal limit. This suggests that she did not give herself that many pills because she would have passed out before she could have ingested that much. Monroe’s autopsy report revealed that her stomach was almost completely empty except for a small amount of fluid (“Marilyn Monroe Autopsy Report”). The report also revealed that there was no evidence of pill residue anywhere in her digestive system and the fact that there was no physical evidence in the room that any pills had been ingested, prove that Monroe did not commit suicide but she was actually
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Columbia Pictures, 1964.
Inherit The Wind. Dir. Stanely Kramer. Perfs. Nedrick Young, Harold Jacob Smith. DVD. MGM, 1961
North by Northwest. Dir. Alfred Hitchcock. Prod. Alfred Hitchcock. By Ernest Lehman. Perf. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, and Martin Landau. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959. DVD.
Elsaesser, Robert. "The Pathos of Failure: American Films in the 1970s" The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s. Ed. Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath, Noel King. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004. 279-292. Print.
According to American National Biography, Marilyn Monroe was formerly known as Norma Jeane Mortenson. She was an American actress and model. Her mom, Gladys Pearl Baker was a flapper, and was unstable and was not ready for a child so she had financial problems with Marilyn Monroe. After Monroe's birth, Baker placed monroe with Ida and Albert Bolender. They raised their foster kids with a strict Christian perspective. When her mom felt stable enough and decided to take Monroe back and live in Hollywood, until she had a psychotic breakdown and was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. After her breakdown Baker spent the rest of her life in and out of institutions and
What ever happened to Marilyn Monroe? The most likely reason is murder. “An overwhelming amount of conspiracy theorists believes the Kennedy's murdered Monroe, or that the Kennedy's at least had a hand in her death.” stated by ibtimes.com.
...movie was finished filming. As she got more into drugs their relationship wasn’t going so well. She overdosed on pills twice and had to get her stomach pumped both times. Their marriage ended in 1961 (Henriksen).
The Misfit is a complex character created by Flannery O’Connor. He is talked about first when the Grandmother reads his criminal background at the breakfast table. Right when the Misfit meets the family the Grandmother starts questioning his faith and past, and through the Grandmother’s persistent behavior that you find out the truth behind the Misfits hard exterior. The reader understands that the Misfit was brought up by parents who were the “finest people in the world” (O’Connor 1312). With this type of background, how can one expect the Misfit to be such a cold blooded killer? Because of his kind nature in the beginning of the story, it’s almost impossible to understand how he could just kill. Through deeper analysis one can characterize the Misfit with a heart of gold, but the mind of a villain. This characterization is true because somewhere along the line he was wrongly accused of murdering his father and was brutally punished and he was mistreated by the justice system. The Misfit knows he was innocent and neither Jesus nor the justice system could rid him of the punish he received. It’s not because he is an evil person, he says himself “I never was a bad boy that I remember of… but somewhere along the line I done something wrong and got sent to the penitentiary. I was buried alive” (1314). The Misfit states he was never the worst person, but he also says himself that he was never good either, so the reason behind the Misfit’s homicidal condition is not because he is an evil person but due to his distrust in Jesus Christ and the justice system.
Maslow’s Psychoanalytical perspective can be used to give an understanding of this part of Marilyn Monroe’s life. Maslow’s theory was developed and based on hierarchy of needs. Maslow wanted to know and understand what motivated people. His belief was that individuals are motivated to achieve certain needs (Feist & Feist, 2009). According to Maslow, Marilyn Monroe had some loving, belongingness needs and safety needs. Maslow believed that when people had their needs for love and belongingness in early years, they do not panic or feel devastated when they are rejected or denied of love. Whereas people who experienced love and belongingness in small doses, have stronger needs for affection and acceptance (Feist & Feist, 2009). This can be app...
Marilyn Monroe was liked by many, society liked her for the sheer fact that she never portrayed herself as famous, but as a human. She was the epiphany of Hollywoods misguided. She created this noble character that people admired, they also admired her f...
The films that followed included Shaft, Superfly (1972), Blacula (1972), Foxy Brown (1974), and many others. These films included soulful R&B soundtracks, likeable caricatures and were cheap enough to make that the studios made a killing off more than twenty films a year. While the Black middle class were ripping apart the stereotypical views of the films, the “Black urban audiences flocked to the cinema to cheer on proud African-American heroes…” (Field 121). Hollywood had found it’s niche, at least for the next five years, and the Blaxploitation boom began. The films made money, and brought out urban audiences, but with what cost, considering the films “merely presents a blackface version of white films” (Martin 45). Many critics argued that the Black heroes of the film asserting power over White people rewrote the script of Black men in Hollywood, who were once only portrayed as over-sexualized jesters who White audiences laughed at. Others stated that Hollywood was simply writing and producing films to create the highest level of appeal, rather than directly trying to denounce Black men and
This royal wedding gown designed by Sarah Burton was worn by Kate Middleton on her Wedding day to Prince William in the Westminster Abbey on the 29th of April 2011. There was a great mystery surrounding this dress. No one knew what the Duchess would wear on the day until she arrived. The dress itself was made by Sarah Burton at the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace. This wedding dress created a story.