Great love story: Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller
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In the narrow circle of celebrities, they stood at the far distance from each other — a flighty blonde and a discreet intellectual. Noticing each other, Marilyn and Arthur were family, but was unable to look deeper created public images.
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Arthur Miller gives one of his last interviews. The operator observes that playwrights do not work the joints. A love story with Monroe — the question 40 years ago, but the toes of an elderly man visibly shaking.
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The questions follow one another: when Miller again speaks about his Marilyn, the profile is still sharp. Only thing missing is the cigarette in the corner of his mouth and points into a slim, dapper frame.
"We were the two in the contrasts of society. I did not realize that the number was not just sensitive, loving life woman. At the core of her character remained dark, which I did not know. But I loved her. I thought enough to be there to give hope." He was wrong.
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Somehow he remembers that he saw Monroe for the first time on one of the dinner parties, cocktail evenings. She was in a revealing, almost transparent dress, drinking sweet sparkling wine and laughed a lot. Men around this actress fluttered like a flock of moths around a hot fire. She gave away all smiles, however, not promising more. Next to her was always the husband former baseball player Joe DiMaggio. The wrinkles on the forehead and the compressed lip line only a fool would not understand — he is tired of jealous.
First, Miller looked on Marilyn with curiosity — the ornithologist studies the plumage of rare birds. She would be an excellent prototype for the heroine of one of the plays? The woman that leads from one fan to another, hoping to get warm and a little love. A woman who loves life and brings joy. Miraculously. On the same evening, they exchanged a few insignificant phrases. We don't know are they talking about the wind over the ocean, honorarium payments for scenic work or philosophical treatises. Faced for a few hours, as supposedly familiar each other. As often happens in a Bohemian environment.
After a painful divorce with DiMaggio and the first nervous breakdown Marilyn distract yourself — attend school Lee Strasberg. There actors are taught to speak by a gesture, to extract from the depths of memory the most painful moments of his life and throw them under the feet of the crowd for the sake of successful roles. She flies from Los Angeles, where, it seems, knows each person, and moved to a Studio in new York.
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Her day consists of a morning bath, a quick Breakfast, a long period of rehearsals and books. It reads as the discoverer explores the cliffs of the new shore — carefully, slowly. Faulkner, Lorca, Dostoevsky... it's Like playing a new role — from screen star, waking up on silk sheets next to her husband-athlete becomes a student. Sometimes even wearing glasses. On the bedside table instead of the jars of creams keeps the poetry collection. She wants to grow.
And here a new meeting with Arthur Miller. Among intellectuals, but sometimes uncomfortable — she wants to absorb every word of these well-read people, but she feels she does not fit into their circle. She is a girl without education, which looks at Miller from the bottom up, faithfully, affectionately, and with delight. Marilyn knows that he is married to the "right" girl from a "proper" Jewish family. She was aware that Miller has children. And agrees to meet secretly.
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He sees her potential, which she never said. Winner of the Pulitzer prize understands her desire for perfection. He believes that someday this beautiful woman step over the role of a comedic actress and will become a master of the dramatic genre. At the several cafes for them left the tables, which is already so accustomed to hide from the omnipresent paparazzi. They've been Dating for a few months, Miller needs time to divorce his wife. Yes, it takes such a decision, because Monroe learns to smile, to be carefree, to enjoy life.
In June the 56th she becomes his lawful wife. Next to Arthur, who insisted on re-marriage according to all Judaic laws, Marilyn finally seems smarter. Stretches to art, reading plays, every journalist reiterates that he wants more — "to be an actress" and not a Flirty idiot clinging to the body of the dress. "No one would say that Arthur light like liking blondes. To me he was not".
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It would seem that opposites are supposed to complement each other. But Arthur is surprised to learn that to live next to Marilyn impossible. The former readily soluble in endless hysterics. In the morning she's a Charmer, and in the evening come the nightmares. She swallows the pills in order to sleep. Press the ironic speakers secular observers, a famous playwright came under the heel of the blond bimbos and now can not write a single line.
The heroes of Miller survive the drama — he prepares a stage play that plans to put the film. In real life before my eyes flashed a true tragedy: Monroe is going through a miscarriage, then a breakdown, increasingly sedative puts on her dressing table. In mid-1960 on the set of the film "the Misfits," written by the Miller they smile at each other already. Monroe for the first time plays a role, which requires it of all emotional reserves.
Critics argue that it can not cope. Rumor has it that she calls his partner on the film Clark gable "daddy" and clings to his shoulder at every opportunity. Require attention. Requires love. Sometimes late to the set for two hours, sometimes not coming at all. "Restless" fail miserably in the first days of hire.
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By early 1961 Miller and Monroe served divorce papers. For Marilyn this marriage will forever remain the longest they have lived together for more than four years. The reason for the separation of the documents indicated the most banal — "Dissimilarity characters". Having freedom, Arthur was surprised to feel that coming back to him for inspiration. Next quickly turned Ingeborg morath — talented author of the photo Agency "Magnum". Morat is not only shared all the passions of the writer — it is from them not to be distracted.
Monroe said that "the choice is simple, when all men become the same." Arthur was often called her "the saddest girl in the world". DiMaggio, every week, sent to her grave the flowers. The Kennedy family still ignoring questions about the details of her death. "I hope you still remember that she was still alive," — says one of the now old friends.
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"The mistake many men were in that night, they hugged her, not knowing what the morning will hold with you, John" — came up with another dreamer-the biographer, or indeed in passing let slip she. Even highbrow writer was not able to immediately see behind the mask of the Flirty, smiling blonde difficult and emotional pain.
Great love story sometimes turns into another sad tale about selfishness.