Marilyn: The Dark Rose
Artwork by an artist known as Rozasy
Based on some of the lesser known poses
from the Tom Kelly nude photo session
Although in this day and age we prefer to lift our
stars up to the heavens and worship them as faultless
Gods & Goddesses, it has been my struggle to know Marilyn
the Woman. It has not been easy, as Susan Strasberg once said
"She (MM) is like a lotus in the mud, everyone keeps trying to
bring her down to the who, the what, the why. But she continues
to rise,like a lotus in the mud."
In an effort to discover Marilyn as the wonderful, funny, &
most importantly the real human being that she was (despite the rumors
...and the artwork of her with wings, as if she had
been some angelic, faultless creature!)I have chosen this page
to remind us of the fact that she once walked among us down here.
She was to be admired and adored, but to ignore the past is
the burden of repeating it. I don't think Monroe
would've wanted that. I am only one of a million fans.
I have stated my own opinion, I leave the rest to you...
"You've got to get Marilyn off the drugs. You're her husband.
And the only one who can do it. If you don't you'll feel guilty
as long as you live. If she doesn't stop now, she'll be
in an institution in two or three years - or (she'll be) dead."
- John Huston to Arthur Miller.
"It had to happen. I didn't know when or how,
but it was inevitable."
- Arthur Miller on MM's death
"In one sense, then, her life is completed,
because her spirit is formed and has achieved itself.
No matter what unpredictable events may be in her future,
they can not change who she is and what she has become."
- Maurice Zolotow, 1960
Marilyn on Marilyn...
"Arthur and I are finished. Arthur saw the demon in me...
a lot of people like to think of me as innocent, so that's
the way I behave to them...if they saw the demon in me they
would hate me...I'm more than one person, and I act differently
each time...most of the time I'm not the person I'd like to be-
certainly not a dumb blonde like they say I am;
a sex freak with big boobs."
- MM to Jack Cardiff
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