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it's kind of funny. You smile for the camera, you hold very still, you act as if you're having a good time—but it's a day when you're really having terrible cramps. I guess I shouldn't say this, but sometimes modeling seemed so phoney and fake I just had to laugh. They thought that was great, they had a great smile from you, and they just snapped away, thinking that, well, I was having a good time. Sure, sometimes it was fun. But modeling can also be a little crazy. I once asked why I had to wear a bathing suit for a toothpaste ad. He looked at me as if I was some kind of crazy!
As do many forlorn and unrequited lovers, Natasha seized every opportunity to be near the object of her devotion, forming, training and influencing her beyond the exigencies of film acting technique. "I began to feed her mind," she said years later, adding that she introduced Marilyn to the works of poets and composers. According to Natasha, Marilyn was indeed no intellectual, but was rather "a mental beachcomber, picking the minds of others and scooping up knowledge and opinions." Natasha provided a cultural stimulation Marilyn had never known. But emotionally the two women were ever at
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The eventual collapse of the traditional studio system and its ownership of actors owed much to her tenacity and to the success of efforts exerted by her, Greene and his attorneys.
Life— I am of both your directions Somehow remaining, Hanging downward the most, Strong as a cobweb in the wind, Existing more with the cold frost than those beaded rays I've seen in paintings.
Susan's father, Wasserman retorted. "I have worked with hundreds and hundreds of actors and actresses, both in class and in the Studio," Lee intoned gravely when Logan asked," and there are only two that stand out way above the rest. Number one is Marlon Brando and the second is Marilyn Monroe." This opinion became virtually a Logan doctrine, lovingly repeated by him numerous times before and after Marilyn's death.
Marilyn had several therapy sessions with Sigmund Freud's daughter.
