Marilyn Monroe: She Was a Lonely Girl



Posted: Sunday, October 11, 2009

by Gerry Baldwin

So said the headlines of my local newspaper, Monday, August 6, 1962, after her death on August 4th.

How could this be? I was a lonely boy: this I could understand, but Marilyn?

Growing up in the 50's, I was quite convinced that my home was the original forerunner of the word dysfunctional . My mom & dad separated when I was 5 yrs old; things were wild and crazy for a long time; my older brother had his friends for support; while I had the movies and Marilyn Monroe.

She represented to me the ultimate in femininity, kindness & honesty, and being just a kid, I knew she'd never hurt you, not like 'real' grown-ups. Around her I felt safe.well in the movies at least. In those years I lived in the movie theatres and always counted the days until the next Marilyn movie came around.

I never tired of watching her over and over. Even in " Niagara" when she played the wicked Rose Loomis, I knew she wasn't really bad, she just wanted a younger husband and to have fun. When she got strangled at the end, I just had to sit and watch it all over again to make sure she was alright, and she certainly was as she wiggled away from the camera's eye and created an instant movie sensation.the longest walk ever filmed !! That was Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn became my role model. If she could rise from her impoverished background of broken homes and orphanages, so could I. As she said many times; "I'm not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful". High hopes. And at the end of her life, she was left alone, a baffling mystery for certain. Where were all the champagne parties, the dreams of making "just one person completely happy" as she had made all of us? These were the words found scribbled on an incomplete note to Joe DiMaggio"if I could just make just one person completely happy". Didn't seem quite fair.

Marilyn Monroe will always live on in my heart, and in films forever

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