Marilyn Monroe

Her personal library contained over 400 books on topics ranging from art to history, psychology, philosophy, literature, religion, poetry, and gardening. Many of the volumes, auctioned in 1999, bore her pencil notations in the margins.
Although she was an avid buyer of books and owned over 400 of them at her death, third husband Arthur Miller said, "Aside from Colette's Cheri and a few short stories, I had never known her to read anything all the way through. She felt she could get the idea of a book, and often did, in just a few pages.".
Was close friends with singer Ella Fitzgerald and helped her rise in her musical career by arranging for her to sing in many upscale nightclubs some of which were segregated during the time of their friendship.
Read and wrote poetry. Her favorite poets were Walt Whitman and John Keats.
Monroe was a stutterer, a little known fact that was easily covered thanks to studio vocal coaches who provided her with dictation lessons.
Learned to play the guitar for her role in River of No Return (1954) and the ukulele for her role in Some Like It Hot (1959).
Was originally set to play Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), but Audrey Hepburn played the role instead.
Was in consideration for the part of Adelaide in Guys and Dolls (1955), but Vivian Blaine was cast instead.

Posted by geminicandle
As for murder or suicide, I really don't know but considering Kennedy was murdered as well...it's kinda eerie coincidence or is it?

Posted by Marmotini
I'm more of a Natalie Wood fan, and I've even had people tell me I look a little bit like her (Natalie Wood).
I empathize very strongly with Marilyn Monroe, though. I *get* her.
I just think other Geminis don't hold the same sense of fascination for me since we're both Geminis? Plus she and I were born in the same decan and everything, I think her birthday was the day before mine.
I think it was suicide.

Posted by geminicandle
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Posted by geminicandle
I like Angie, she has a good heart and she loves to travel, learn about other people and their culture, etc...
She is better than some Hollywood A-listers or even politicans who don't know where freaking Russia is, lol!

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Posted by Marmotini
I dunno men loved her for the wrong reasons (sex object) and I don't think she ever felt she found true love and I think she was actually distraught about not being able to have kids (apparently she physically could not, it wasn't just that she chose not to, and back in the 60's that was a lot more depressing to women I think than it is now, where there's all these fertility treatments, or she could just adopt and no one would judge her like they would back then).
That's why I think suicide was very plausible. She was an intelligent sensitive person but I think she wanted something more substantial from her life.
The only grounds I possibly see for murder from the Kennedys is if she was so in love with JFK that she was becoming hysterical and making herself a nuisance (possible, most Geminis seem to be crazy or inappropriate in some way) ...but I don't think she was murdered as part of a huge conspiracy, I've always thought that was kind of dumb.
Kennedy was assassinated for his extremely liberal political views.

I wonder where her Venus is...I can see myself being upset if I never had any children, because I truly love them. But then again, my Venus is in the sign of motherhood (Cancer).
She died so young, at the peak of her beauty, youth and fame. Many stars died way too young.

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Posted by geminicandle
Marmotini,
that definitely sounds plausible...I mean even at this day and age (50 years later after her death), some people still consider that a woman's life ends after 35, even after 30 and if she didn't have children? It's like she did not accomplish anything in her life, as if her sole role in this life and society was to bear children. We still very much live in a male-driven, patriarchal and even chauvinistic, misogynist society.
Maybe with her fading youth and beauty, she saw no reason anymore to live. Kinda like dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse behind, sounds James Dean-ish. Morbid in a sense...
If she was truly in love with such a charming man as Kennedy who was already married and wasn't divorcing, wasn't gonna have a family with MM, I guess I could see her doing it. Plus, wasn't she on a lot of rx drugs as well as drank? Maybe it pushed her over the edge.
But it's so bizzarre that he died too, you know?
Were they both cursed or what?

Posted by Marmotini
I dunno men loved her for the wrong reasons (sex object) and I don't think she ever felt she found true love and I think she was actually distraught about not being able to have kids (apparently she physically could not, it wasn't just that she chose not to, and back in the 60's that was a lot more depressing to women I think than it is now, where there's all these fertility treatments, or she could just adopt and no one would judge her like they would back then).
That's why I think suicide was very plausible. She was an intelligent sensitive person but I think she wanted something more substantial from her life.
The only grounds I possibly see for murder from the Kennedys is if she was so in love with JFK that she was becoming hysterical and making herself a nuisance (possible, most Geminis seem to be crazy or inappropriate in some way) ...but I don't think she was murdered as part of a huge conspiracy, I've always thought that was kind of dumb.
Kennedy was assassinated for his extremely liberal political views.