“The first day a photographer took a picture of her she was a genius,” the director Billy Wilder once remarked. Monroe recognized photography as a tool to advance her career, and few celebrities have ever played better to the camera. Examined closely, and together with Monroe’s own words, many of them reveal the complexities of the person behind the icon. The images chronicle her transformation from a young aspiring model, Norma Jeane Dougherty, to the Hollywood starlet who adopted the name Marilyn Monroe. Many were sent to photograph her on assignment some were close personal friends whose access to her life beyond the public eye produced some of the more intimate images of her still others were what are now called paparazzi, snapping shots of her caught unawares. The exhibition features more than two hundred photographs of Monroe taken by thirty-nine photographers of varying backgrounds, including studio photographers, fashion photographers, and photojournalists. I Wanna Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the Collection of Leon and Michaela Constantiner seeks to broaden the perception of Monroe by examining how her public persona, shaped by a wealth of photographers, obscured for the masses her true nature. An avid reader who devoured the classics and loved poetry and fiction (Dostoyevsky, Whitman, and Salinger were among her favorite writers), she was an accomplished actress, ambitious and media-savvy, who controlled the course of her career with considerable insight and intelligence. I Wanna Be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the Collection of Leon and Michaela ConstantinerĪlthough the image of Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) as a voluptuous, superficial blond bombshell-perpetuated by countless photographs and films-is famous the world over, her serious, intellectual side is less widely known.It paid off because Ana de Armas won the role of a lifetime. It took nine months to complete as English is not her first language, but Armas was determined to achieve her goal. In fact, from what can be seen in the trailer, Joe Dimaggio (Bobby Cannavale) is immediately enamored with Marilyn on their first date, a reflection on the real-life date of the couple back in 1952.Īrmas had a dialect coach to perfect the seductive yet sweet voice Marilyn was known for to capture Marilyn Monroe’s essence further. She then wed New York playwright Arthur Miller, and like her marriage to Dimaggio, it ended in divorce.īoth marriages will be showcased in Blonde through Armas’ eyes. While filming her role as “The Girl” in the 1955 Billy Wilder film, The Seven Year Itch, Marilyn married Joe Dimaggio, the center-fielder for the New York Yankees. Marilyn was married three times during her life, with two of them being highly publicized. She just didn’t receive that back.” -Ana de Armas for Variety. She loved the profession, and she respected it very much. “It was one of the things that brought me closer to Marilyn. By having this in common with Marilyn, Armas used it as an advantage in her portrayal. At the peak of Marilyn’s fame, the media was more concerned about her personal affairs and sexpot image than her success as a serious actress. While Armas did not favor the paparazzi’s negative attention, she used it to channel Marilyn Monroe for the film. According to the Cuban-born actress, heavy media scrutiny occurred when she was a household name in Madrid, Spain. Blonde, the upcoming Netflix drama based on Hollywood screen legend Marilyn Monroe and the book by Joyce Carol Oates, Ana de Armas reflected on her paparazzi experience and how it constructed her interpretation of Marilyn.
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