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Could it have worked with Marilyn Monroe?

posted 10 years ago by eyebrowmorroco
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What do you think?

[–] coldnaps 10 years ago

[–] brendanchenowith 10 years ago

I don't see why not. She was of the right age, and it would've been ironic casting when you consider she was an actress who was working to be taken seriously while she was playing an actress who was working to be taken seriously.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

[–] beautifulnerd 9 years ago

Every Marilyn movie became just that - a Marilyn movie.
Here the subject is too important

[–] bruno-32 8 years ago

You mean as the Susan Kohner role? No!!