The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” (Twitter), presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, reveals the small story in the big one, to leaf through like a family album. This new issue of season 5 revisits the Marilyn Monroe myth and recounts an unknown episode in her story…
The day when > Marilyn before #MeToo
Sixty years after her disappearance on August 4, 1962, Marilyn Monroe still has this power of fascination. Evidenced by the film Blonde hair, directed by Andrew Dominik. On platforms from September 28, 2022, it caused a sensation at the Venice Film Festival. Writers and filmmakers continue to be inspired by Marilyn’s complexity and mystery, but her modernity is less often mentioned. In 1953, as her career began, she wrote a column to denounce Hollywood producers who had tried to abuse her. The young actress gives them a name: “the wolves”! She wrote: “Dismissing them is a full-time job, surviving the pack belongs to everyone…” Being a woman, claiming her ability to be a subject of desire but denouncing, from her first steps in this universe, the predators that prowl. Already the theme of consent!
And also, dresses, stars…
News > Legendary dresses
This is the story of a dress which, last June, appeared on social networks… The American Kim Kardashian was criticized for having dared to wear the outfit that Marilyn wore on the birthday of the President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in 1962. How many dresses have gone down in history like this! Some belong to the legend of three women: Marilyn Monroe, Mireille Darc and Lady Diana…
Bonus > What is a star?
Marilyn Monroe, Lady Di… Why do we need these myths? Charlotte Rampling, Catherine Deneuve and Annie Girardot give their definition of the star.
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– unfinished confession, Marilyn Monroe in collaboration with Ben Hecht (ed. Robert Laffont).
– Fragments, poems, private writings, lettersMarilyn Monroe (ed. Threshold).
– Marilyn MonroeAnne Plantagenet (ed. Gallimard).
– The Secret Lives of Marilyn MonroeAnthony Summers (ed. Renaissance Press).
Non-exhaustive list.
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