Paula Strasberg

Lee Strasberg's widow, Anna, now has control over Monroe's estate. Anna received everything when Lee died, and Susan and her brother received absolutely nothing. Susan Strasberg gave her parents thousands of dollars when she was an actress. They were broke many times, and Susan supported them even when she was a teenager. Paula died in the late 60s, and Marilyn even gave Susan her pearl necklace. Anna Strasberg tried to take the necklace away from Susan when she was dying. It was intended for her daughter Jennifer.

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Does no one get the fact that Marilyn was very lonely and craved love. She didn't have much of a relationship with her mother and never knew her father. She was very insecure and needed people around her that she could trust to be honest with her. She also needed structure in her life. People gave her pills to go to sleep and more pills to wake up. She wasn't always in control of her own life because of that.

People immediately fell in love with her back in the day. People have been obsessed with collecting memorabilia about Marilyn. I knew a woman who had a Harley decked out like something Marilyn would find pretty.

Marilyn got married very young and for a very short time. Her marriage to DiMaggio lasted less than a year. I remember finding it odd that she married Arthur Miller since he was such an intellectual and Marilyn always seemed ditzy in most of her rolls. But, when you get to know Marilyn, she is very intelligent. I think her marriages didn't work out because she never thought that her husbands would stay so, she was scared and she pushed them away before they could leave. Most likely that was because she didn't have any experience with men having never known her father.

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And you are right; she was great in "Some Like It Hot" and imho also "Prince and the Showgirl" too. The sad truth of it though is that the deep insecurity she felt, the need for drugs to sleep and then awake and over-indulgent pampering from the Strasberg's only made her so sadly dependent on them for everything-- all made it impossible for the other actors to shine as well as they could have. Billy Wilder the director of SLIH said that Tony Curtis for one gave an oscar worthy performance that wound up on the cutting room floor; as it would take 50 or more takes for MM to get her motor going let alone remember the lines. Wilder told Curtis that he had to do this as those early MM takes were not usable, thereby making his early great takes mostly unusable save for some close-ups. This was sadly the effect that happened to all of her later co-stars right to the end. If you like MM you should see some of her earlier films before she was well known. She really turned in some great performances and had a gift for drama that most people never realized; "Clash By Night" and "Don't Bother to Knock" to name a few.
There's a great interview that George Chakiris (Bernardo, West Side Story) gave where he talked about how disciplined, hard working, on time and fun Marilyn was to work with in her early years. I think the system hurt her alot and also she never got her due in any way from the Studios, even though she made so much money for them.
Believe me I feel the same for MM as you do. Imagine having all this working against you and she still managed to be great! I think both Elvis and MM were troubled people who suffered from very bad management.

Hey did you ever see the list of great roles that Colonel Parker turned down that might have given Elvis the one thing he always wanted; an oscar.
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof - Brick (went to Paul Newman)
West Side Story - Tony (Richard Beymer)
Sweet Bird of Youth - Chance Wayne (Paul Newman)
The Defiant Ones - Joker (Tony Curtis)
Your Cheatin' Heart - Hank Williams (George Hamilton)
True Grit - La Boeuf Glenn Campbell)
A Star is Born - John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson)

Now here is the most amazing loss of all Colonel Parker turned down the role of Bo Decker in "Bus Stop"! Originally it was offered to Marlon Brando who dropped out and then offered to Elvis. This would have brought Marilyn and Elvis together in a romance/comedy where they both would have shined brightly. It would have been one of the great star pairing of all time and who knows where else it might have led them both.