Knowing
that
her
appearance worked
both
for
and against
her
(though
mainly
for),
Marilyn
Monroe wanted
more
than
anything
to
be
taken
seriously
as
an
actress.
“If
I
am
a
star,
the
people
made
me
a
star…
but
I
do
want
to
be
wonderful,
you
know?”
she’s
heard
saying
in
an
audio
recording.
At
another
time,
she
said, “What
I’d
like
to
accomplish,
I
would
like
to
be
a
good
actress,
a
true
actress.
An
artist,
with
integrity.”
Among
the dozens
of
old
interview
clips
included
in
the
Netflix
documentary, her Gentlemen
Prefer
Blondes
co-star
Jane
Russell told
journalist
Anthony
Summers
that
they’d
work
all
day
and
Monroe
would
meet
with
her
acting
coach
at
night. “She
was
very
bright
and she
wanted
to
learn,”
Russell
said, “and
was
interested
in
everything
to
help
her
control
her
career.”
John
Huston,
who
directed
Monroe
in
one
of
her
first
films, 1950’s Asphalt
Jungle,
and her
last
finished
movie,
1961’s The
Misfits,
recalled meeting
the “very
fresh,
very
attractive,
rather
timid,
shy”
young
woman
for
the
first
time
at
her
audition,
where
she “read
her
lines
beautifully.”
And
her
appeal
went
beyond
her
looks,
the
filmmaker
noted. Though
she
was
the “sex
symbol
of
this
century,”
he
noted
in
the
1980s, “it wasn’t
just
a
sex
thing
at
all.
Women
felt
just
the
same
as
men.
There
was
something
deeply
moving
about
Marilyn,
always.”
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