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- No, in the sense that Blonde is an adaptation of the 2000 Joyce Carol Oates book of the same name, which was a fictional version of Monroe’s life. This is not the same as a documentary or even a traditional biopic like Bohemian Rhapsody. Rather, it’s a sort of celebrity fan-fiction, and not every detail in the movie should be taken as fact.
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Sep 16, 2022 · Top: The real Marilyn Monroe is pictured in a scene from 1953's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Bottom: Actress Ana de Armas recreates the scene in Netflix's Blonde.
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Sep 28, 2022 · One true detail that Blonde the movie includes is the fact that Marilyn Monroe was paid far less than her co-star Jane Russell in one of her most famous films, 1953’s Gentleman Prefer Blondes.
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Sep 26, 2022 · In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)—the quintessential Monroe film—she proved herself to be a triple-threat talent, dazzling her audiences with her singing and dancing as much as she made them...
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Sep 28, 2022 · The Gentlemen Prefer Blondes star’s story is uniquely, oppressively sad—many of the most widely recognized portions of her biography are painful—and to ignore this in a film would be...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 American musical comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and written by Charles Lederer. The film is based on the 1949 stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1925 novel of the same name by Anita Loos.
Sep 30, 2022 · Based on Joyce Carol Oates’s 1999 novel Blonde, this the Marilyn myth as a horror movie: orphan, victim, prey; raped, beat up, doomed. An all-American nightmare. In the novel, Oates provides a...
Oct 15, 2022 · At the time of the musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, released in 1953, such feminist concerns did not yet shape characterization in film. Marilyn Monroe is veritably the prototype “dumb blonde.”
