![]() ![]() While her short-lived career in Hollywood is also explored, the story mainly revolves around her deteriorating mental health, especially as she refuses to indulge in the publicity stunts that are expected of her. Starting from her childhood, the film focuses on her troubled upbringing, especially her relationship with her mother, which further paves the way for a difficult future. Starring Jessica Lange in the lead role, ‘Frances’ follows the story of Frances Farmer. Instead of exploring Monroe’s relationships with other people, this film looks into her own complexities and the struggles within herself. ‘Norma Jean and Marilyn’ takes it a step further by presenting both as different people, played by Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino. ![]() Often, we see Norma Jeane struggling to bring out Marilyn, and at one point, pleading with her onscreen persona not to abandon her. One of the main things that ‘Blonde’ establishes about its protagonist is that who she was in real life and who she became in front of the screen were two very different people. ![]() Exploring her personal and professional equation with Hyde, the film, though fictional in a lot of aspects, gives the audience a look into something that ‘Blonde’ doesn’t explore. It charts the story from the beginning of Monroe’s career when she was still Norma Jeane, trying to find out who she needed to be in order to carve a place for herself in Hollywood. This made-for-television film is based on the novel ‘Moviola’ by Garson Kanin and offers a look into Marilyn Monroe’s relationship with her agent, Johnny Hyde. This Year’s Blonde (1980) Image Credits: Mario Caselli/Warner Bros. The focus is on her meteoric rise in Hollywood and how she left behind Norma Jeane to become the Marilyn Monroe, who everyone came to love and admire. Starting from her childhood, it begins with her first marriage and the early years in which she worked as a model and created an image for herself that would later define her presence on the screen. For starters, it acknowledges the people in her life with their real names and does not fabricate too many things so as to make the audience wonder about every single aspect of Monroe’s life. While ‘Blonde’ relies more on its fictional elements to present the devastating story of Marilyn Monroe, ‘Marilyn: The Untold Story’ is more straightforward in its portrayal of the events in the superstar’s life. ![]()
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