In this excerpt, Marilyn Monroe stills surround us: store windows, building sides, restaurants, art.
Voices: Bob Henriquez (photographer), Patty Bosworth (writer), Gloria Steinem (writer/activist), Leon Constantiner (collector) Amy Greene (first wife of photographer Milton Greene).
(car hooting) - [Narrator 1] She was so attractive, so beautiful.
She was made for a camera.
You know, she was created to be a subject, a gorgeous subject and that's it.
- [Narrator 2] Marilyn Monroe took off her coat.
She was wearing this polo coat and I realized that she was wearing this necklace of vintage pearls, beautiful, glowing, creamy, lustrous, and they sort of, they were almost like her skin.
Her skin was the most beautiful skin I'd ever seen in my life.
- [Narrator 3] She was a joke.
She was vulnerable.
She was so eager for approval.
She was all the things that I feared most being as a teenage girl.
- [Narrator 4] I don't know if she had knowledge of the power of her sex appeal with men, but if she knew good for her - [Narrator 5] And she always had a lover darling, always had a lover.
Nobody knew about it.
Sneaking in, sneaking out, always had somebody.
