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To men, Marilyn Monroe was a sex object, a meal ticket, a 'feather-brained slut' and a 'two-bit whore'. But despite being hounded by lecherous suitors even after death... she would never have signed up to 'Me Too', writes JULIE BURCHILL
How would Marilyn Monroe - the most famously vulnerable and preyed upon film star in the history of Hollywood - have fared in the era of #MeToo?
We're taught growing up that if we're pretty and sexy enough and if men fancy us enough, the world is ours for the taking — but Marilyn's unhappiness in Hollywood after the first flush of success was proof that a girl's sense of self-worth can never be dependent on her looks, which will surely fade. 'In less than five years, she'd gone from orphanage waif to child bride to factory girl to car model to GI pinup to studio underling to down-and-out extra to mogul's mistress to Playboy centerfold to BAFTA nominee,' writes biographer, Elizabeth Winder. Hugh Hefner started out by publishing her early nude shots on the cover of the first Playboy in 1953 and ended up being buried next to her at the Westwood Village Memorial Park cemetery: 'Spending eternity next to Marilyn is too sweet to pass up,' he told the Los Angeles Times in 2009.
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