Marilyn Monroe: The Sixty Year Itch
Overview
August 5, 2022, 4:00 pmAugust 4, 1962: a movie star dies tragicallyโan event sadly not unknown in Hollywood history. Yet Marilyn Monroeโs untimely passing at the age of thirty-six was worthy of the international headlines it received. It shocked a world that had known her through movies, interviews, photographs, and scandalous headlines: a world which had already made her an icon. Yet the end of the actressโs life was the start of her journey into myth: her status as a symbol of both The American Dream come trueโฆ and The American Dream gone horribly wrong.
On the 60thย anniversary of her death, cultural historian Amanda Hallay discusses the evolution of Marilyn Monroeโs legend, and why we seem unable to truly say โgoodbyeโ to Norma Jean.
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