Marilyn | Goodbye, Norma Jeane | 110
Even the Rich
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🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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If any past celebrity could have pulled more Instagram followers than Kim Kardashian, it would have been Marilyn Monroe. Even without family money or a family, Marilyn knew exactly how to capture the world’s attention. But before she was Marilyn, she was just Norma Jeane Baker, a lonely young girl in the foster care system…
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| 0:00.0 | Wonder Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
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| 0:07.2 | Does it make any difference Gifford? |
| 0:15.0 | You're just an orchid that dropped and bloomed in a swamp. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm going to take you away from all that sham and cheapness. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm going to transplant you. We'll be married dear heart and go together to Utopia. |
| 0:26.2 | You mean around the world? |
| 0:28.2 | Round the universe, to the moon. I'll put the ring of Saturn on your finger. We'll sleep on Venus in the Milky |
| 0:34.3 | Way shall be our... It's Los Angeles 1933. Movie star Gene Harlow and her |
| 0:40.3 | nameless suitor stand 20 feet tall on the screen of the Gromman's Chinese theater. |
| 0:45.7 | Harlow wears a skin-toned gown that shimmers in the moonlight. Her short curls are brushed out and |
| 0:52.0 | blonde, |
| 0:52.9 | framing her pale face like a halo. |
| 0:56.2 | In the front row of the movie theater, |
| 0:58.3 | a little girl who also has curly blonde hair |
| 1:01.2 | stares up at her idol and recites each one of Harlow's |
| 1:05.0 | lines. Not even Nor |
| 1:06.5 | a shirt or Helen Hayes and their nicest pictures were ever spoken to like that. |
| 1:11.4 | A woman sitting a few seats down shoots her a nasty look. But Norma |
| 1:17.1 | Jean doesn't notice. Her knees are tucked under her dress and her shoes are on |
| 1:21.8 | the floor. She's been curled up in this red |
| 1:24.6 | velvet chair since 8 a.m. and it's now approaching early afternoon. This is her |
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