"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest." It's hard to believe Marilyn Monroe's been gone 44 years, found dead, lying across her bed in the nude, phone in one hand, and empty pill bottles strewn about. I remember hearing this news that Sunday morning August 5, 1962 as my Father drove us along a narrow road on Sanibel Island, one of my favorite spots off Florida's Gulf Coast. It was a beautiful sunny day, no one in the car commented, I remember feeling a sense of loss.
What's remains true about her films today as much as yesterday---when Marilyn was good, she was very very good. Another cultural icon forever emblazoned in our memory.
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