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Sexy stars like Marilyn, few but fabulous, were unquestionably the most flamboyantly fascinating women in all Hollywood history. Yet fame and misfortune proved their common lot!
By Dorothy Gulman
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W^%oor Marilyn Monroe — I wouldn't swap futures with wr her for a million dollars!"
Suppose you heard another actress make that remark? Would you call it Sour Grapes and say she was lying? In that case, you could be doing the lady a rank injustice. If she knows her Hollywood history and happens to take it seriously, honesty, rather than envy, prompted her words. A superstition is not to be laughed at or lightly dismissed when overwhelming statistics support it. According to Hollywood's strongest superstition of this sort, Marilyn Monroe has inherited a tradition of trouble and tragedy.
Even those who neither approve nor understand agree Marilyn is the hottest property in pictures today, following "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." She outdraws estab
lished favorites at the box-office and overshadows them in the press. Both as topic and target, she is the most talked-about personality in Hollywood. Not in spite of but actually because of her very present popularity, old settlers in the film colony pity the poor girl. They regard her future with positive pessimism. They dig deep into their memories and come up with a vast store of eerie evidence to explain why. . . .
Hollywood is practically packed with beautiful women, but the Marilyn Monroes are something else again. Girls with that indefinable extra ingredient are hard to find. In almost 50 years of film-making, there have been only a handful of other stars who have had what Marilyn's got. So far, everything is happening to her exactly as it happened to them; the same fast (continued on pace 62)