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The eyelashes of Marilyn

Hardly an actress is such an icon, such as “The Monroe”. Again and again the question of Marilyn was made, the people behind the myth. An exhibition gives a glimpse into the private life of the Diva.



She is a timeless sex symbol and an icon. During his lifetime, yet Marilyn Monroe’s attributes are attributed to make them unique, on a throne lift. Through her tragic death at 36, which raises lots of questions, she is finally immortal. “The Monroe” is a legend. To The Goddess.

Norma Jeane Baker, a shy, good girl, born in 1926 in Los Angeles, growing up without parents in foster families and in children’s home. You are being re-invented, the hydrogen bleached blonde Marilyn Monroe and the star at the Hollywood gloss of the sky, the most photographed woman and the archetypal sex symbol of the 20th century. Century.

Behind the facade of Glamour and sex appeal

Several Attempts were made behind the facade of Glamour and sex appeal, to look into the innermost sacred to the goddess. Who is this woman with the internal radiation, the doubt, the time of your life plagued by self, for many, the Cinderella of the 20th century. Century embodies? It seemed necessary to ask these questions. Had, it is said that Marilyn herself suffered it to be just as sexy-dumb blonde perceived. It is the America of the 1940s and 1950s: sexuality and intelligence from closed, and the film industry reduced women even more than their physical beauty.

Over a thousand books and several documentaries have worked their way through to the “the phenomenon of Marilyn” yet. Fellow artists and friends to be interviewed, “Monroe”. Again and again, investigative books appear to her death, the Connections to the Kennedy Clan and her suicide.

Marilyn – man

The aim of these alternative interpretations of Marilyn, it is to illuminate the diverse, multi-faceted people behind the facade. And to give her justice – post-mortem. So Mrs parties have rejected the Image of the Blondchens, which was passed through the beds of Hollywood, decided. You want to see in it a Symbol of emancipation and quote sayings from her. Motivational mantras such as “A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesn’t believe and leaves before she is left.” Or “women who strive to be with men only at the same level, lacking in ambition”. Marilyn, the men-eating Vamp.

Also, the calculation at the end of a career woman you would like to see in her. She was separated from her first husband, Jim Dougherty, whom she married 16 years, not in the orphanage life, after four years of marriage, only because they would otherwise not get the role, for which only unmarried women were out of the question. Later, it emphasizes, have your own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc., founded.

In addition, you should be a writer, to have been a talented. As your diaries are published in German under the title “Brave 2010 (English title: Fragment of) love”, praised the BBC as “records of a poet”. In addition, she was involved in politics for the equality of the Black and against Senator McCarthy and FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover.

A legend of Marilyn says, you’ve got Ella Fitzgerald performances in “Mocambo Club”, a popular night club in the 1950s. Until that time, Fitzgerald was ruled out because of their skin color.

Exhibition: “Marilyn Monroe. The Unknown”

An attempt, people Marilyn is the special exhibition “Marilyn Monroe. The Unknown”, which is currently seen from the 16.12.2018 to 16.06.2019 in the Museum Speyer. A morning coat made of Satin from the film set of “gentlemen prefer blondes”, a worn, dirty mules with a heel and a box with artificial eyelashes: these are three of a total of about 400 exhibits that are on view in the exhibition. They come from the original private estate of Monroe and are a part of the private collection of Ted Stampfer. The exhibition has the ambition to provide insights into the “non-illuminated private side” of Monroe. The visitors to immerse themselves “in the world of Marilyn Monroe”. To see, among other things, items of clothing, accessories, toiletries, and photographs. It is the world’s largest collection of its kind, and compilation.

This leather sandal wore Marilyn Monroe in a photo shoot in New York in 1957

“Her myth had nothing to do with her”

If Monroe’s co-stars Jane Fonda and Tony Curtis talking about Marilyn Monroe, then you talk of the time in which they lived and worked. Jane Fonda explains in David Letterman’s talk show, Monroe was a frightened young woman. With today’s methods of therapy it would help her for sure. Monroe’s colleague from “Some like declared it hot”, Tony Curtis, Larry Kings talk show, the myth, the others had constructed, I had nothing to do with her. She had been very sensitive, emotionally and physically sick. Sex was at that time, and still today, the only way to achieve something.

Finally, all the different readings, interpretations and projections in the dazzling figure of Monroe. It remains, however, unattainable. A Myth.

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