Just on the 60th anniversary of the death of the legendary actress Marilyn Monroe, a film based on her life is released. Ana de Armas puts herself in the role of one of the personalities that raise the most questions today.
This September 29 comes to Netflix Blonde, the film in which the Cuban Ana de Armas gets into the skin of Marilyn Monroe, an icon and unique actress of her kind.
No figure has aroused the expectation that she created with her walk. Always straight, stylized, and perfect, with a sweet voice but a tormented mind, Monroe had an ending that continues to be surrounded by unknowns to this day.
The unknowns surrounding Marilyn Monroe's death
On August 4, 1962, Monroe's body was found in her mansion in Brentwood (Los Angeles). Although forensics pointed to an overdose of barbiturates, it has never been possible to verify whether it occurred on purpose or accidentally.
Thus, since her death 60 years ago now, everything has been unknown. Supposed connections with the mafia or her relationship with the Kennedys have been the focus of many conspiracies. Even so, many who knew her knew of her mental problems and her longing for affection. Loneliness flooded her day to day after ending her three marriages.
Marilyn Monroe's three husbands, none in the will
Marilyn Monroe was married three times. The first was with James Dougherty, who died of leukemia in 2005. They met and fell in love before she rose to fame in the 1950s. Her marriage lasted from 1942 to 1946.
Marilyn's second husband was Joe DiMaggio, with whom she had a stormy relationship. The actress's environment ensured that the fights between them were common, in which DiMaggio had a dominant position. She never reported mistreatment. Her fleeting marriage lasted a year, between 54 and 55. It was already an erotic myth.
The writer Arthur Miller was her last husband. They were married for five years. "Marilyn was proof that seriousness could not coexist in one person," he wrote about her after separating from her.
Her drama teachers took 75% of the possessions
The marriage formed between Paula and Lee Strasberg was the beneficiary in the will of 75% of the actress's possessions. They also received that same percentage in terms of the rights to Marilyn's intellectual property.
Although she was a huge star, Marilyn never gave up on her training. Always determined to become a brilliant actress, her drama teachers became great confessors. In 1955, Marilyn began giving acting classes at the Actors Studio in New York, where the couple taught.
"I always want to be an actress and that's why she felt frustrated. The more successful she was, the more frustrated she felt," Lee Strasberg said in an interview that now includes the Prime Video documentary about her figure. "Our approach is that the actor becomes the character," Paula Strasberg said of her method.
She turned to them at her worst moments when she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. "Dear Lee and Paula. Dr. Kris has committed me to the psychiatric division of a hospital in New York under the care of two idiot doctors. They shouldn't be my doctors. You didn't hear from me because I'm locked up among wackos. I'm sure to go crazy If I'm still in this nightmare, help me, Lee," he told them in a letter.
Her psychiatrist took the other 25%
Marianne Kris, the psychiatrist, and doctor who was in charge of her during her stay in New York took the other 25% of her inheritance.
It was she who ordered her psychiatric admission to treat her addiction to barbiturates and her suicidal tendencies, which concerned the medical community. She is the same Dr. Kris that Marilyn talks about in her letters to Strasberg.
At that time, her fortune was estimated at $800,000, a figure that after taxes was relegated to $370,000.
When Dr. Kris passed away, she left 25% of hers to the Anna Center for the Study and Treatment of Children in London, run by Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund Freud.
