It might bring up uncomfortable discussions about the men who used (& abused) her...like JFK, maybe?
“Probable suicide”
No mention of the Brothers Jack and Bobby Kennedy.
That may have something to do with the failure to note the occasion.
At least she won’t be posting her blog or vanities.
So there’s that to appreciate.
I was recently reading a short biography of Dorothy Kilgallen. She was a journalist who frequently appeared on the old TV show "What's My Line?". Kilgallen was working on a story about the JFK assassination. All of a sudden she dies from an alcohol and drug overdose.
When I was a kid in Panama City, FL, our parents took us to see “River Of No Return”.
A few months ago I saw it again on TV. It was just as good as I remembered and Marilyn was really something.
What a complex person. Sad childhood, popping good looks, tons of early abuse, and then Hollywood got ahold of her.... and then the Kennedys. Even her doctors were not to be trusted. She didn’t know what to do with her life. She was given so many directions and she took some of the worst ones.
I said, “Oh, how sad.” Tom the Son said, “She probably deserved it.” (Tom the Son is a tough audience.) The rest of the family calculated that none of us had been born at the time, so it couldn’t possibly be our fault.
I have some thoughts and opinions on the actual cause of Marilyn Monroe’s death.
I can’t guarantee that any of them were true. But what I can guarantee with 100% accuracy is that the official stated cause of death is bologna.
ditto for JFK’s assassination. I don’t know the true story, but I can guarantee you what it isn’t and that would be the results of the Warren Commission.
She was very beautiful. I recall in the 90s that there were articles talking about how by 90s standards she’d be considered a fatty (part of the movement to get women to not be worried about their weight). That worked really well, so well that by 2010s standards she’d considered practically anorexic.
RFK was at her home the day of her suicide....not good.
I was in a little town in the northern Catskills. With my parents on vacation. No TV. Only radio in the cars. No car as dad was in the city working. Walked the half mile to town to buy bait or BBs. The local catskill paper had it on the front page.
Sad..…. I was 13 and just starting to notice female ‘assets’. A few months later we almost had a nuclear war. A little over a year later her ‘boyfriend’ got his brains blown out.
An odd time in America
JFK and RFK ‘s #MeToo moment.
Corrected.
I was 11, visiting my grandparents in MO with my family. I remember when they heard the news on the radio (no TV) my grandpa said “the wages of sin is death”.
I reckon he nailed it.
Well, at least she’s not 92...
Marilyn Monroe had been married to Joe DiMaggio. Even after the divorce, Joe DiMaggio had a dozen roses sent to her gravesite every day for the rest of his life.
Growing up in Detroit in the 1960’s, they never played any of her serious movies on TV that I remember. I do remember watching Some like it Hot, however. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I could appreciate her beauty and recognize her fragility.