Celeste Holm, on the 60th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death: “At first she seemed like a silly girl”

This Thursday marks the 60th anniversary of the death of American actress Marilyn Monroe, a female icon of the 20th century. The recognized as a sex symbol of the decade of the 50s and 60s did not leave anyone indifferent and for this reason Netflix will soon release a biopic starring Ana de Armas, ‘Blonde’. However, actress Celeste Holm shares with ‘elcierredigital.com’ that her first impression of the American, with mythical status, was that she looked like “a girl



Only 30 films were enough for Marilyn Monroe achieved the status of myth. Well this is half true because what really gave him that place was his sad died on August 4, 1962 at 36 years old. He lived up to the dictum “live fast, die young, and leave a nice corpse” that decade after decade is attributed to james dean (another young myth) when he actually said it Hamphrey Bogart in knock on any door (1949).

Today marks the 60th anniversary of his death. Officially it was claimed that committed suicide by taking barbiturates at home Mexican-style restaurant in Brentwood, Los Angeles that he had bought six months earlier. That was her first home of her own after having lived in a wandering way with her three husbands (james dougherty, Joe DiMaggio Y Arthur Miller) and, of course, having had a painful childhood in different foster homes and orphanages because his mother, Gladyswas admitted to a mental institution due to paranoid schizophrenia.

In September, the streaming platform Netflix will premiere his biopic Blonde in which Anne of Arms gets into the skin of the protagonist Gentlemen prefer blondes (1953). The Cuban actress has received some bad reviews because they assure that “His Hispanic accent is too noticeable”, but the brand management company Authentic Brands Group has given its approval. That is the main dilemma when playing one of the greatest icons of the 20th century.

Marilyn Monroe, ‘a good girl’

It was always said of Marilyn that she did not have many lights, when in fact numerous writings affirm that his IQ was well above average. Perhaps, the ideal weapon to climb positions in the competitive Hollywood. Although a priori it seems strange, the star had an extensive library with authors as brainy as Whitman either Tolstoy (of course she also had those of her last husband, Arthur Miller), took literature classes at the University of Southern California (UCLA) and Lee Strasberg He was her acting teacher.

Having had a broken home since childhood caused him so much anguish that his vital need was to find a real family. He found it in Lee Strasberg and his wife Paula, who became a kind of parents. When Marilyn died, the couple inherited 75 percent of her estate and intellectual property, while the other 25 percent went to her psychiatrist. Marianne Kris.

Celeste Holm (top on the stairs) and Marilyn Monroe (bottom right) in a photo signed by the former. PHOTO: The Digital Closure.

Before reaching stardom he had had some cameos with the brothers Marx in canned love (1949), John Huston hired her for the asphalt jungle (1949) and mankiewicz He was so shocked by that last performance that he was part of a star cast in naked eve (1950), the classic par excellence of what happens behind the scenes of the theater.

The writer of these lines had the pleasure of interviewing many years ago Celeste Holm (Karen Richards), one of the female leads in the film along with Anne Baxter (Eve Harrington) and bette davis (Margo Channing). “She seemed like a silly little girl at first, but I asked Gregory Ratoff (Max Fabian) if he understood the fervor for her and he said, ‘I think so, and it’s only going to grow. It will be like a snowball. So it was”. That was how she landed a seven-year contract with Fox. she was a good girl. to the newcomer Joan Collins (89) advised her: “Beware of wolves in Hollywood” (the English actress always refers to that comment).

Celeste Holm on the 60th anniversary of Marilyn Monroes deathCeleste Holm, in an interview at her home, holding an Oscar.

In 1953 he starred Niagara Y Gentlemen prefer blondesthe next year How to marry a millionaire Y Temptation lives above in 1955, whose scene in which the skirt of the white dress is lifted Due to the air given off by the subway grilles, it made her the sexiest icon. And the garment, in one of the most expensive. The designer William Travilla kept it in his home until his death in 1990, he bought it Debbie Reynolds which subsequently auctioned it off in 2011 for $5.6 million.

Legendary for its delays in filming, billy wilder Y Tony Curtis got on their nerves while filming Whit skirts and being crazy (1959), as also happened in rebellious lives (1961), the screenplay for which he wrote Arthur Miller. could not finish Something’s Got to Give (1962). In private she managed to fall in love with the most powerful character of the moment, the president John F. Kennedy, to whom he sang Happy Birthday at New York’s Madison Square Garden. She also had her dalliances with her brother Robert. Being so close to power, as well as to the mafia thanks to his friendship with Frank Sinatraled to his death being treated as a homicide because he knew too much.

Marilyn is always on the list of ‘the most profitable dead in history’. Today her legacy is owned by Jamie Salter (59), a Canadian billionaire who founded the brand management company Authentic Brands Group in 2010 and who also owns those of Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson Y Muhammad Ali, among other. With Marilyn Monroe she earned eight million dollars in 2020.

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Celeste Holm, on the 60th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death: “At first she seemed like a silly girl”