What's so good about her?
Why do people adore her so much? Her quotes?
shareI really like Audrey Hepburn too lisibet. My mother is a big fan of hers.
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Is Marilyn Monroe beautiful?
https://www.quora.com/Is-Marilyn-Monroe-beautiful
She digested her food.
sharenone are her quotes, very sad for the peopel who relaly said them.
shareShe was an extremely beautiful and sexy woman, but I wish she didn't come from such a sad background.
You can detect the sadness behind the smile, and for all her physical radiance, I don't find that façade to be sexy. I much prefer to see genuinely happy, effervescent women who aren't simply pretending for the camera, or indeed the male gaze. Someone like the late Farrah Fawcett, who came from a genuinely loving family background rather than a broken and abusive home, strikes me as sexier for that reason (although sadly even her later life was blighted by abusive asshole husbands and boyfriends).
Then again, a lot of men have this weird and twisted paternalistic fetish. They love to see women as victims, either because they like to victimise and mistreat them (i.e. the Weinsteins and Trumps of this world) or they like to think of themselves as knights in shining armour ready to protect them (i.e. your average pseudo-male feminist).
Personally, I prefer to see women either as equals or as princesses to pamper and adore.
I never cared much for her--the platinum hair, the makeup, the vocal affectation--but in recent years I've grown fond of her. I began to notice that all of her movies are watchable, many of them are very good, and she always performs her role perfectly, regardless of the behind-the-scenes problems her co-workers consistently reported. I think people love her from the beginning, or, like me, find her to be an acquired taste.
shareShe was a lot more smarter than the 'dumb blonde' persona ever gave her credit for.
The 'dumb blonde' was a character she excelled at playing, but it wasn't the true Marilyn Monroe. The true Marilyn Monroe was a sad, melancholy, deep, and rather intelligent and well-read woman. Certainly not the bimbo many of her clones tend to be.
She isn't my cup of tea, but she was a decent actress and she had screen presence OUT THE WAZOO. She's magnetic, when she's on screen you can't take your eyes off of her, the other actors might as well give up and go home when she's there.
Which isn't the same thing as good acting, and for all her trying hard, there was always something incredibly fake about Monroe. Her screen persona wasn't a real woman, wasn't meant to be a real woman, the character she played on screen was the woman that straight men wish existed in real life. Monroe played this character who is totally focused on pleasing straight men and living up to their fantasies of a woman who's both innocent and sexy, and they loved it then and still love it now. There are still straight men who will call her "the ideal woman", not realizing that they're seeing an invention rather than a person.
Monroe herself wasn't the first actress to find that living up to men's fantasies was inconvenient in real life, it was Rita Hayworth who said "Men go to bed with Gilda, but wake up with... me".
I can tell you a few reasons why millions of men liked her.
Her beautiful face:
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Lips:
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Legs:
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Well done, as always, Otter. I remember a skit on The Honeymooners where Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton somehow got stuck in a drifting rowboat floating out to sea at night with no oats or life preservers. I forget which of them asked the question, but it was most likely Ralph, “Norton, what are you thinkin’ about?” Norton replied, “Marilyn Monroe.” Ralph asked, “Why Marilyn Monroe?” The Sewer Sage answered, “Because that’s what a guy’s always thinkin’ about!” Followed by hysterical laughter and thunderous applause.
shareShe was talentless
shareThank you for that articulate and perceptive analysis of why she was adored, which is the topic at hand, in the event that you skipped reading comprehension in grade school. So you conclude that the millions of people around the world were her fans—and this is a historical fact, therefore not subject to debate, Brainiac—were so fond of her because she had no talent. If so, why the hell aren’t YOU famous?
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