“Blonde” is based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates that imagines the life of the “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” star from her childhood as Norma Jeane Morteson to her rise to stardom. The cast includes Bobby Cannavale, Adrien Brody, Julianne Nicholson, Xavier Samuel and Evan Williams. Most of the complaints about de Armas’ casting pointed to her keeping her Cuban accent, which is not what Monroe sounded like. De Armas told Vanity Fair in 2020 that Dominik’s decision to hire a Cuban actor to play an American icon was “groundbreaking.” “I only had to audition for Marilyn once and Andrew chose me, but I had to audition for everyone else,” he added. “The producers. The money people. There are always people I have to convince. But he knew he could do it. Playing Marilyn was something new. A Cuban playing Marilyn Monroe. She wanted him so bad. You see that famous picture of her, you see her smiling, but you know that’s just a disguise for what was going on in her brain at the time. “That’s just a portion of what was really going on at the time.”
60 years ago, his lifeless body was found in his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, due to an overdose of pills, according to the official autopsy, even though conspiracy theories about his death continue to fly today, including the brothers John and Robert Kennedy and trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa, among others. Born in Los Angeles in 1926 to a mentally disturbed mother, abandoned in an orphanage, abused as a child, Marilyn passed away at the age of 36 on the cusp of stardom. She used to be a factory worker and a model for almanacs. Upon entering the cinema, she went through various productions in minor roles, some of which did not register her in her credits, until in 1950 she took part in “While the city sleeps” (The Asphalt Jungle), a black police officer by John Huston . That film was the kickoff of a career for her that ended very soon, with two dozen films that had her as the protagonist and an abrupt and tragic ending.
Her big roles include Otto Preminger’s “Lost Souls” with Robert Mitchum and Joshua Logan’s “I Never Was a Saint.”
The big moment came in 1955 when Billy Wilder summoned her for “The Seventh Year Itch”, and four years later with “One Eve and Two Adams”, along with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. She in the middle she did “The Prince and the Showgirl” with Laurence Olivier, and “The Adorable Sinner” with Yves Montand. Her last work was “The Misfits”, by her discoverer Huston de Ella, with Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift.
At that point she had taken classes with Lee Strasberg and had converted to Judaism to marry the playwright Arthur Miller, with whom she was in a relationship for five years until their divorce in 1961. She had previously been the wife of James Dougherty, between the ages of 16 and 20 years old, and baseball player Joe DiMaggio (1954-1955).
Her personality took her to the highest political circles, especially with the Kennedy clan, perhaps the beginning of her catastrophic end in the solitude of a room, accompanied by a tube of barbiturates.
On August 5, 1962, a second life began for her in which she was portrayed by Andy Warhol with images reproduced on T-shirts, posters and bedrooms, and revealed herself as a gay icon and protagonist of literary stories, movies, series and even a work of theater, “After the fall”, written by Arthur Miller.
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