"Forgettable? That's your review? Remarkable since it was never completed and nobody saw it. Kind of taints the rest of your post. (btw...anyone can cut and paste from imdb)"
My error. Now all you Marilyn fans, provide me with legit Critic reviews that gave her raves for talent. She was at best mediocre. You are certainly allowed your views but I hardly think it is universally accepted.
BTW, my taking the list from IMDB (Attributed properly) was merely to list her works. Not to impress anyone. That is why I gave attribution.
Re: "Something's Got To Give"
This was the film Monroe was working on when she died. It was the film from which she had been fired from until Dean Martin said he would walk if she didn't return. She was obviously one messed-up 36-year-old by that point and was constantly late on the set or refused to work. But, even then, there was still a certain magic to her screen performances.
American Movie Classics got the prints of the film in one of their vault purchases and released about a 50-minute version of the scenes that had been shot along with a documentary about the movie that never came out.
Monroe and Smith both symbolize to me women who craved love in the traditional sense but found they were unable/incapable of sustaining a relationship with anyone for whatever reason, probably in part to bad/absent parenting. Their "revenge" was to make themselves into outrageous "bombshells" to get the attention they wanted so badly and yet lacked the personal skills to sustain.
Women who turn themselves into sex objects for attention have a difficult transition when there is nothing to fall back on once the looks go. When the money is spent and the men no longer desire them, they often descend into a deep depression. I suspect this was ANS's situation.
BTW, I have to insert one of my favorite Marilyn Monroe stories. Soon after she married Joe DiMaggio, the baseball star, she did USO tours in Korea for adoring troops. When she came back, she tried to explain to DiMaggio the thrill she got performing to the crowd.
"You have no idea what it feels like to have thousands of men practically worship you," said Monroe.
Responded DiMaggio dryly, "Oh, I think I can."
OK. MM was fluff 80% of the time but the other 20% she was genuinely good. The Misfits, Some Like It Hot, Asphalt Jungle (small role), Niagara...as good as anyone could have been in those roles.