No.she night between 4 and 5 August 60 years ago, at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe died. She was 36 years old. She was alone. Unhappy. Maybe depressed. Maybe she was murdered by someone. Maybe. Official filing as suicide for a mix of barbiturates it is one of the most controversial decisions in history. At the end of her mysterious about her, a myth of cinema to her, but also a woman symbol of human frailty and an icon of success and absolute beauty, the tv dedicates various appointments. Here are which ones, when and where to see them.
Marilyn Monroe: TV celebrates her (but not much)
We would like to point out right away that if you are expecting a slew of events, you will be disappointed. It is just four appointments, none on Rai, two on Netflix (one is the expected Blonde, biopic that will be presented at the Venice Film Festival scheduled from 31 August to 10 September). Few for the round number anniversary of a character like Marilyn Monroe, the most loved diva of all time, pop icon, woman of sensuality and timeless beauty.
And a very current character if you think about his frailties (restlessness, anxiety states, psychiatric treatment, with a mother suffering from schizophrenia who abandoned her and did not even go to her funeral because she was unable to recognize her).
Maybe a lot has been said. Too much. Perhaps Blonde, whose trailer has just been launched, is absorbing all the attention. The fact is that TV, for the 60th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death, perhaps could have done more. To say: the channels 1 and 2 of the Swiss public TV on 4 and 5 August broadcast a documentary about her and one of her most famous films When the wife is on vacation.
On Canale 5 the special of Tg5
Saturday 30 July, in the late evening (00.40) the Tg5 of Canale 5directed by Clemente Mimun, signs a special on Marilyn Monroe: an in-depth study of one hour curated by Claudio Fico and realized by Anna Praderio. Retrace the turbulent life of the problematic child, bounced between orphanages and families who had her in foster careoften, according to him, abused by foster fathers, ignored and abused.
Of the girl of exaggerated beauty, noticed by a photographer while she was a worker in a parachute factory and catapulted onto the catwalks as a model.
Dell ‘actress who made everyone fall in love, but who never found love. Of the successful diva that bewitches in cult films like Niagara, Men Prefer Blondes, How To Marry A Millionaire, When The Wife Is On Vacation, Some Like It Hot. Up to that death which is still discussed today.
Marilyn Monroe, 1952 (Michael Ochs Archives – Getty Images)
On Sky the film Marilyn
On Friday 5 the Sky satellite TV (Cinema Due) sends at 9.15 pm Marilyn, 2011 biopic directed by Simon Curtis. Tell the week that Marilyn spent in Great Britain in ’57 for the filming of The prince and the dancer. It is taken from one of the countless books that reveal a piece of Marilyn’s life. This is taken from The prince, the dancer and mepublished in ’95 by the director Colin Clark, who thus collected his diaries written in ’57 just as he was assistant to The prince and the dancer. To the protagonist Michelle Williamsfor his interpretation of Monroe, went to the Golden Globe for Best Actress in 2012.
Marilyn’s secrets on Netflix
On Netflix, available from the end of April, is the documentary The secrets of Marilyn Monroe. The unreleased tapessigned by Irish journalist Anthony Summers, finalist of the Pulitzer Prize, 85’s author The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Traces the highlights of the diva’s life, showing unpublished recordings, collected by the journalist who, since 1982, when Marilyn’s suicide case was reopened, has been investigating the matter. Summers at the time collected 650 tapes of recordings. He only used part of it in the book in 1985. Now, 40 years later, on the 60th anniversary of her death, she has decided to use the other part of the recordings for this documentary.
And then, again on Netflix, the expected one Blonde
The rumor about this film has been going on for months. The artfully siphoned information helped raise expectations. And now that it has turned out that Blonde will be presented in Venice and the official trailer has been released, he has the eyes of the world on him. Blonde will be available on Netflix from September 23rd.
It is about a film by Andrew Dominik starring the Spanish actress of Cuban origins Ana de Armas (formerly bond girl in No Time To Die). Seeing the trailer you notice that her makeup spells make her look like the real Marilyn. His interpretation is so amazing that, according to the experts, it could deserve the Oscar.
Also from the trailer it turns out that the set mate is Bobby Cannavale, who is responsible for the role of Joe DiMaggiosecond husband of Monroe, the only one who also went to the actress’s funeral. Blondetreatment from the 2000 novel of the same name by Joyce Carol OatesPulitzer Prize finalist writer, presented as a biopic, it is actually a fictionalized reinterpretation of Marilyn’s life and career. To fuel expectations, even the fact that it is a film forbidden to minors. Raw and direct. Curiosity (or morbidity?), Of course, increases.
Marilyn Monroe: a life as a true diva
Summarizing the life of Marilyn Monroe in a few lines is almost impossible. Certainly everyone knows it. Each of her gives her one (or more) of the infinite iconic images that have characterized her. The one with the pink dress with diamond necklace and bracelets from Men prefer blondes. The one with the white dress that, on the one meter grate, flutters in When the wife is on vacation.
That of painting by Andy Warhol in pop version with pink face, yellow hair, blue eyeshadow (it was auctioned for 195 million dollars, the highest amount ever paid for a 20th-century work). The one with the skin-tight, flesh-colored dress worn in Madison Square Garden for the president’s birthday celebrations John Fitzgerald Kennedywhen he sang in front of about 15 thousand people Happy Birthdat Mr President (she and JFK were lovers, then he pushed her away, and she was also the mistress of her brother Robert Kennedy).
Marilyn Monroe: the fragile woman who became a myth
She had three husbands (first James Dougherty, then Joe DiMaggio, finally Arthur Miller). No children. Countless miscarriages (some have counted twelve, she declared fourteen). He never knew who his father was. He aimed to be wonderful, but also rich. He was looking for the happinessbut sadness has always overtaken it («They say that money does not bring happiness, but if I have to cry I prefer to do it in the back seat of a Rolls Royce rather than in a subway car », one of his famous phrases).
And the only certain thing is that the morning of 5 August 1962 was found lying on her bed, belly up, naked, wrapped in crumpled white sheets, the telephone receiver hanging from her hand. Next to it, a bedside table with on an empty bottle of sleeping pills. Alone. In the next room, Eunice Murray, the housekeeper that after a couple of days she would leave because she was fired. To be the first to see her lifeless body, Ralph Greenson. His psychiatrist.
It has been said that his murder was commissioned by Robert Kennedy and committed by Ralph Greenson with a lethal injection. Or even that the Chicago mafia assassinated her to take revenge on the Kennedys.
But this is legend. And the legend, as we know, only envelops the true myths.
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