Marilyn Monroe At 100: The Tragic Genius The World Mistook For A Dumb Blonde.

So I was watching CBS Saturday and it was previewing the story about Marilyn Monroe and Marilyn Monroe 100th birthday is on June 1st. She was born June 1st 1926 and I was watching this advertisement they have for that for that story and it was this picture here of Marilyn Monroe and I was looking at it and I was like, oh my God, she's seducing me from the grave. Unfortunately today some young ladies feel like if they have a BBL and they can twerk that's all they need that, you know, that's what's sexy about them. Oh, I can twerk for 30 seconds. Yay. No, man, if you can cook a really good meal and you got sexy eyes that goes a long way. A lot of those actresses back then. Yeah, they might have had nice bodies, but it was just the way they looked at a guy that's that's what works and I think that still works, you know, Tony Braxton Tony Braxton's beautiful never said love song. We don't see Tony's body at all her first the first thing we see in that video is Tony looking at you with her eyes and it's very seductive just like this Marilyn picture and it's funny because my mom was a big Marilyn Monroe fan and she said, you know, she liked Marilyn because she said she's the only white girl. I know with a butt like it. She was she was a curvy girl and I thought like well, maybe she's like half Latina because her mom was born in Mexico, but her mom was born in Mexico, but she wasn't a Latina. She just knew how to speak Spanish and it's you know, Marilyn Monroe when she was Norma Jean she grew up. She had a hard life man. So her mom had mental health issues and her mom got locked up and Marilyn Monroe when she was Norma Jean she got bounced around from foster home to foster home and I think when she was 8 years old she stayed with a woman that a house where different people rented rooms and some guy violated young Norma Jean and she told her foster mother her foster mother didn't believe her and Norma Jean developed a stutter and only way she she stopped stuttering as the years went along is she worked on her speaking and her diction and when you hear her kind of breathy talk like she kind of talks like this that was her controlling her stutter because she went through a lot. But yeah, she went through a lot of foster homes. She got married when she was 16 on that guy went up to fight in World War two. She met a military photographer and that's when she started modeling and then she went to Hollywood and but even then because her hair was dark. They said she wasn't really pretty enough and then she had she did stuff with her hair. She liked her hair and she became this Marilyn Monroe figure because I think her mom's maiden name was Monroe. I think they gave her the name Marilyn because it was a Broadway actress who was popular named Marilyn and I think her biographers have said that when she talks about Norma Jean she's almost talking about another person. She's talking she's talking about Norma Jean in third person and it's like yeah, but you're Norma Jean. It's like no, I'm not like that Norma Jean's a totally different person and a lot of ways the way that she grew up mom being locked up for mental health not knowing who her father is being violated when she was eight years old going from foster home to foster home being married at 16 all this stuff. Yeah, she just really want to detach herself who Norma Jean was and Marilyn died in their late 30s. It was tragic. The beautiful thing about Marilyn Monroe was you know, she played this like ditzy type character. She was really really smart. Like she she had her own production company. So someone like Barbara Streisand and Oprah Winfrey and Mary Tyler Moore like all these women who came after her. They they created their own studios or their own production brands because of Marilyn Monroe even Lucille Ball like she when it was Desi Lu was there's is Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball is Desi Lu productions like Marilyn had her own thing, but I was ahead of this is in the 50s. So I was ahead of the curve. So she got a lot of pushback, but she wasn't this ditzy blonde that she portrayed. I think Suzanne Summers picked that up when she did Three's Company where Suzanne Summers played this ditzy character, but in real life, she was a kind of a shrewd businesswoman. So shout out to Marilyn Monroe. What is your favorite Marilyn Monroe movie? I still like some like it hot some like it hot with with Tony Curtis and Jack Lennon and in Maryland in the middle that that's really and she's really good at comedy too. And she studied at the Actor's Studio, you know, the Actor's Studio by Al Pacino and Bradley Cooper and Robert Williams. I think Christopher Reeve like you had you had all these great actors who studied at the at the Actor's Studio, but she was one of she studied under Lee Strasberg. There's a lot to learn about Marilyn Monroe. So do yourself a favor watch some documentaries on her watch like movies about Marilyn Monroe and Norma Jean because the Norma Jean story we wouldn't get Marilyn Monroe without Norma Jean but you feel bad for Norma Jean because she went through so much but you also feel bad for Marilyn because she just seems like she just was always looking for love like she got she was married three times and I think she loved the guy except for the first husband. I think she was he was a means to an end because she wanted to get out of the foster system at 16. But I think she loved Miller and she loved Joe DiMaggio. So I think she loved them both but just didn't work out. So shout out to Marilyn Monroe on a hundredth birthday. And what is your favorite Marilyn Monroe movie?