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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

Marilyn Monroe

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“It was after she said that she wanted to be in The Brothers Karamazov,” Wilder went on, “that she started going to the Actors’ Studio School of Dramatic Arts in New York. She didn’t do it for publicity. She’s sincerely trying to improve herself, and I think she should be admired for that. She could have sat here in Hollywood on her pretty little fanny and collected all of the money any ordinary actress would ever want, but she keeps trying.”
— Pete Martin’s interview with Billy Wilder for The Saturday Evening Post in 1956.
Billy Wilder and Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like it Hot, 1958

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“Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!”
—Lee Remick

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“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.”
—Marilyn Monroe

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“It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies, but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.”
—Marilyn Monroe

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“All this publicity makes me a little shy and afraid. I’m afraid that people will expect too much of me, right now when I’ve only started my acting career.”
—Marilyn Monroe, 1950

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