Marilyn donated time and/or money to:

An orphanage Marilyn visited during her 1962 trip to Mexico- she ripped up her initial check of $1000 and donated $10,000.

A children’s welfare organization that gave free breakfasts to underprivileged youngsters- a donation of $1000.

The sữa Fun for em bé in 1957- Marilyn decided to give earnings from the world premiere of The Prince and the Showgirl to this charity.

A 1953 benefit for underprivileged children at Jude’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee-singing with Jane Russell at the Hollywood Bowl.

Among Những người bạn and colleagues, Marilyn was renowned for her generosity in helping people wherever she could; stand-in Evelyn Moriarty remembers Marilyn making an anonymous donation of $1,000 to a crew member on Let’s Make tình yêu (1960) who needed the money to cover funeral expenses for his wife.

“Marilyn adored animals; she was drawn to all living things. She would spend hundreds of dollars to try to save a storm-damaged cây and would mourn its death. She welcomed birds, providing cây houses and thực phẩm for the many species that visited her lawn; she worried about them in bad weather. She worried about chó and cats. She once had a dog that was bởi nature contemplative, but she was convinced he was depressed. She did her best to make him play, and that depressed him even more; on the rare occasions when he did an antic pirouette, Marilyn would hug and Kiss him, delirious with joy.”

- Norman Rosten, poet (via Metamorphosis bởi David Willis & Stephen Schmidt)

bạn know a lot of people have, oh gee, real quirky problems that they wouldn’t dare have anyone know. But one of my problems happens to show: I’m late. I guess people think that why I’m late is some kind of arrogance and I think it is the opposite of arrogance. I also feel that I’m not in this big American rush, bạn know, bạn got to go and bạn go to go fast but for no good reason. The main thing is, I want to be prepared when I get there to give a good performance hoặc whatever to the best of my ability. A lot of people can be there on time and do nothing, which I have seen them do, and bạn know, all sit around sort of chitchatting and talking trivia about their social life. Gable đã đưa ý kiến about me, “When she’s there, she’s there. All of her is there! She’s there to work.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“I think I had many problems as the tiếp theo starlet keeping the Hollywood Người sói from my door. These Người sói just could not understand me. They would tell me, ‘But Marilyn, you’re not playing the game the way bạn should. Be smart. You’ll never get anywhere in this business diễn xuất the way bạn do.’ My answer to them would be, ‘The only diễn xuất I’ll do is for the camera.’ I was determined, no one was going to use me hoặc my body—even if he could help my career. I’ve never gone out with a man I didn’t want to. No one, not even the studio, could force me to ngày someone. The one thing I hate thêm than anything else is being used. I’ve always worked hard for the sake of someday becoming a talented actress. I knew I would make it someday if I only kept at it and worked hard without lowering my principles and pride in myself.” (Marilyn Monroe)

“I wish I had one tenth of Marilyn’s cleverness,” đã đưa ý kiến diễn xuất coach Natasha Lytess. “Whenever I arrived at her Doheny Drive apartment, she was studying.”

Monroe in her last bức ảnh session, for LIFE magazine, a tháng before she died. She cared little for things and owned no jewelry. “I’m not interested in money,” Monroe once told an agent. “I just want to be wonderful.”

Eight months before her death Marilyn Monroe discovered a Spanish-style house in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. She traveled to Mexico in February 1962, enthusiastically searching shops in Cuernavaca, Taxco, Toluca and Acapulco for fabrics, furniture and tiles for her new home.

Will Always remember You!

Vidyadhar Kshirsagar <amost1972@gmail.com>
9:46 PM (46 phút ago)
to mafhoney

Dear Marilyn Monroe Fanclub,

I am a 48-year-old freelance writer from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
I have always admired Ms. Monroe, for what she did for all women!
Even though I am a man, I would tình yêu to write about just what she has done for me!
I would like to share my feelings with you, on this topic!

I have written over 70 các bài viết for many years, and have self-published a book about my lifelong obsession with The Beatles, even though I am from Generation-X.

I hope that bạn will allow me to do so!

Thank bạn very much!

Sincerely,
Amit Kshirsagar
1731 Weatherstone Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108