Session Fantasy, Marilyn Monroe, In Our Imagination, Our Vision Of Love
November 29, 2023,
Who says you can’t get everything you want?
Maybe not in real life.
You sure can in the fantasy realm.
One of the women who has been fantasized about, perhaps more than any other gorgeous lady in the world, is the blonde sensation, Marilyn Monroe.
Because of her star power, every now and then it is important to revisit her memory. That is why 60 years later, after her passing, film after film is quietly exploding on to the screen.
Just like Marilyn did it, with a quiet, elegant explosion.
Can we have a session with Marilyn?
Yes, in our imagination. The legendary Temptations told us so. In a dream.
“Each day through my window I watch her as she passes by
I say to myself, “You’re such a lucky guy”
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true
Out of all the fellows in the world, she belongs to me
But it was just my imagination
Runnin’ away with me
It was just my imagination
Runnin’ away with me.”
While it lasts. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g3e3cgktZU
Time to revisit Marilyn’s sad, mesmerizing and penetrating memory.
Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer.
Famous for playing comic “blonde bombshell” characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era’s sexual revolution.
She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2021) by the time of her death in 1962.
Long after her death, Ms. Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture.
In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Apparently we are not alone when we want to escape into the magical realm of Marilyn Monroe.
Hundreds of books have been written about Ms. Monroe. She has been the subject of numerous films, plays, operas, and songs, and has influenced artists and entertainers such as Andy Warhol and Madonna.
She also remains a valuable brand.
Her image and name have been licensed for hundreds of products, and she has been featured in advertising for brands such as Max Factor, Chanel, Mercedes-Benz, and Absolut Vodka.
Ah, the power of the Marilyn escape.
Shall we escape some more?
How about through celluloid dreams.
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes is a 2022 American documentary film directed by Emma Cooper for Netflix. It is centered on the life and untimely death of American actress and cultural icon Marilyn Monroe and is told through archival footage and unseen interviews with friends of the star.
The film was released on April 27, 2022.
Now that she has long passed, can there be anything new to her story?
Maybe.
Anthony Summers, the author of the book Goddess (1985), explains he began researching Marilyn Monroe after he learned that the Los Angeles County District Attorney was reopening the case of her death.
Mr. Summers subsequently spent three years collecting 650 tape-recorded interviews with people who either knew Monroe in her lifetime or had knowledge concerning her death. The audio of the interviews is original, but actors perform lip-synced reenactments.
As Marilyn began acting, she had affairs with multiple powerful men who helped advance her career. Fellow actor Jane Russell notes Marilyn had a particularly strong work ethic. However, our sweet blonde beauty suffered from poor mental health stemming from a troubled childhood.
That has been well-chronicled.
Still. We need an escape so we are interested.
We are interested in this Marilyn Monroe offering as well.
Blonde is a 2022 American biographical psychological drama film written and directed by Andrew Dominik, and the second adaptation, with the same name, based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates.
The film is a fictionalized take on the life and career of American actress Marilyn Monroe, played by Ana de Armas. The cast also includes Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, and Julianne Nicholson.
Interesting. Big time players indeed.
Artistically, the film plays with shifting aspect ratios and alternates between color and black and white.
Now for the storyline. A great escape.
As a child, Norma Jeane Mortenson grew up being raised by her mentally unstable mother Gladys.
On her seventh birthday in 1933, she is given a framed picture of a man Gladys claims is her father. Later that night, a fire breaks out in the Hollywood Hills, and Gladys drives Norma Jeane up there, claiming that her father lives there, but is forced to go back home at the orders of the police.
An enraged Gladys tries to drown Norma Jeane in the bathtub when she asks about her father but lets her go. Norma Jeane flees to the house of her neighbor, Miss Flynn, who promises she will be fine.
Days later, Norma Jeane is sent to an orphanage while Gladys is admitted to a mental hospital, having been declared unfit to raise a child.
Marilyn escapes.
Into another realm.
In the 1940s, Norma Jeane becomes a pin-up model under the stage name “Marilyn Monroe”, featuring on magazine covers and calendars.
So it begins.
For her performance, Ana de Armas received nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, and SAG Award for Best Actress.
And you know what? Going in to this film, we were skeptical.
Very skeptical.
In her everyday life, Ana looks so different from Marilyn but we were completely surprised and amazed at how Ana transformed physically, and as important, emotionally, into Marilyn on screen.
Impressive.
It makes us want to sigh and once again use our imagination.
For a vision.
The sensational Mariah Carey soothed us with her vision that she shared with us.
“Treated me kind
Sweet destiny
Carried me through desperation
To the one that was waiting for me
It took so long
Still I believed
Somehow, the one that I needed
Would find me eventually
I had a vision of love
And it was all that you’ve given to me.”
It bears repeating. It was all that you’ve given to me.
Marilyn Monroe? Your beauty, talent and magical memories were all that you’ve given to us, and you know what?
We are so glad to get it.
So glad to have it.
Well, time to go.
We have a session scheduled. We asked the beautiful Session Woman if she could see herself blonde. Reminds us of someone we know. Tucked away in our imagination.
She said yes.
So often these classy Session Women say yes.
In the quiet of a hotel room, that can make virtually any imagination of fantasy come true.
Including our blonde vision of love.
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