Marilyn Monroe - I Wanna Be Loved By You

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2008
Time: 48:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Size: 117,2 MB
Art: Front

(3:00) 1. I Wanna Be Loved By You
(3:33) 2. Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend
(2:39) 3. I'm Gonna File My Claim
(3:03) 4. You'd Be Surprised
(2:21) 5. A Fine Romance
(2:58) 6. Kiss
(3:26) 7. Bye Bye Baby
(3:38) 8. After You Get What You Want You Don't Have It
(3:24) 9. When Loves Go Wrong Nothing Goes Right
(1:21) 10. Some Like It Hot
(5:09) 11. My Heart Belongs To Daddy
(2:46) 12. She Act Like A Woman Should
(2:59) 13. When I Fall In Love
(3:13) 14. Do It Again
(2:31) 15. I'm Through With Love
(2:14) 16. The River Of No Return

Who really was Marilyn Monroe? I Wanna Be Loved By You tries to answer this question. Charting her life journey, from Norma Jean’s rise to fame up to her controversial death, this play centres around the private persona of America's most infamous sex symbol.

In I Wanna Be Loved By You, Monroe’s character is played by all three of the female cast members at different points in the play. This strategy works well to emphasise Monroe’s conflicting personalities, the pre-celebrity young girl, the iconic actress and pin-up, and the private Marilyn, known to nobody but herself. This production also cleverly depicts Monroe’s love/hate relationship with the press. Each scene is broken up by a frantic media scrum, intruding into the play in the same interfering fashion they had in Monroe’s short life. At one point, Joe DiMaggio, Monroe’s second husband, states that “the press are either at your feet or your throat,” a line reminiscent of today’s treatment of celebrity.

I Wanna be Loved By You is excellent at detailing the events of Monroe’s life, from her marriages - including those to DiMaggio and Arthur Miller - to her relationship with her mum and her drug addiction. Yet this production doesn’t unravel any of the secrets it promises to and this is a problem. I Wanna Be Loved By You tries to do too much. Fifty minutes is not enough time to accurately comment on every aspect of Monroe’s life. Focusing on one would have been difficult enough. As a result, this production provides an interesting account of a complex character, but barely scratches the surface.By Liz Rawlings https://www.festmag.com/edinburgh/archive/i-wanna-be-loved-by-you

I Wanna Be Loved By You

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Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2012
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:29
Size: 121,9 MB
Art: Front

(3:31) 1. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend - From "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
(3:03) 2. A Little Girl from Little Rock (with Jane Russell) - From "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
(2:36) 3. I'm Gonna File My Claim - From "River of No Return"
(3:25) 4. When Love Goes Wrong, Nothing Goes Right (with Jane Russell) - From "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
(3:02) 5. You'd Be Surprised
(4:21) 6. Heat Wave - From "There's No Business Like Show Business"
(5:00) 7. My Heart Belongs to Daddy - From "Let's Make Love"
(2:19) 8. A Fine Romance - From "Swing Time"
(2:46) 9. She Acts Like a Woman Should
(2:04) 10. One Silver Dollar - From "River of No Return"
(3:12) 11. Do It Again - From "The French Doll"
(2:59) 12. Kiss - From "Niagara"
(3:33) 13. Lazy - From "There's No Business Like Show Business"
(3:38) 14. After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It - From "There's No Business Like Show Business"
(3:29) 15. Specialization (with Frankie Vaughan) - From "Let's Make Love"
(3:25) 16. Bye Bye Baby - From "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Baker. As the identity of her father is undetermined, she was later baptized Norma Jeane Baker. Gladys had been a film cutter at RKO studios, but psychological problems prevented her from keeping the job and she was eventually committed to a mental institution. Norma Jeane spent most of her childhood in foster homes and orphanages until 1937, when she moved in with family friend Grace McKee Goddard. Unfortunately, when Grace’s husband was transferred to the East Coast in 1942, the couple couldn’t afford to take 16-year-old Norma Jeane with them. Norma Jeane had two options: return to the orphanage or get married. On June 19, 1942 she wed her 21-year-old neighbor Jimmy Dougherty, whom she had been dating for six months. “She was a sweet, generous and religious girl,” Jimmy said. “She liked to be cuddled.” By all accounts Norma Jeane loved Jimmy, and they were happy together until he joined the Merchant Marines and was sent to the South Pacific in 1944.

After Jimmy left, Norma Jeane took a job on the assembly line at the Radio Plane Munitions factory in Burbank, California. Several months later, photographer David Conover saw her while taking pictures of women contributing to the war effort for Yank magazine. He couldn’t believe his luck. She was a “photographer’s dream.” Conover used her for the shoot and then began sending modeling jobs her way. The camera loved Norma Jeane, and within two years she was a reputable model with many popular magazine covers to her credit. She began studying the work of legendary actresses Jean Harlow and Lana Turner, and enrolled in drama classes with dreams of stardom. However, Jimmy’s return in 1946 meant Norma Jeane had to make another choice- this time between her marriage and her career.

Norma Jeane divorced Jimmy in June of 1946, and signed her first studio contract with Twentieth Century Fox on August 26, 1946. She earned $125 a week. Soon after, Norma Jeane dyed her hair blonde and changed her name to Marilyn Monroe (borrowing her grandmother’s last name). The rest, as the saying goes, is history. Marilyn played a series of inconsequential characters in her first films, until 1950, when John Huston’s thriller The Asphalt Jungle provided her with a small but influential role. Later that year, Marilyn’s performance as Claudia Caswell in All About Eve (starring Bette Davis) earned her further praise. From then on Marilyn worked steadily in movies such as: Let’s Make It Legal, As Young As You Feel, Monkey Business and Don’t Bother to Knock. It was her performance in 1953’s Niagara, however, that delivered her to stardom. Marilyn played Rose Loomis, a beautiful young wife who plots to kill her older, jealous husband (Joseph Cotten).

Marilyn’s success in Niagara was followed with lead roles in the wildly popular Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (co-starring Jane Russell) and How to Marry a Millionaire (co-starring Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable). Photoplay magazine voted Marilyn the Best New Actress of 1953, and at 27 years old she was undeniably the best-loved blonde bombshell in Hollywood. On January 14, 1954, Marilyn married baseball superstar Joe DiMaggio at San Francisco’s City Hall. They had been a couple for two years, after Joe asked his agent to arrange a dinner date. “I don’t know if I’m in love with him yet,” Marilyn said when the press got word of their relationship, “but I know I like him more than any man I’ve ever met.” During their Tokyo honeymoon, Marilyn took time to perform for the service men stationed in Korea. Her presence caused a near-riot among the troops, and Joe was clearly uncomfortable with thousands of men ogling his new bride.

Unfortunately, Marilyn’s fame and sexual image became a theme that haunted their marriage. Nine months later on October 27, 1954, Marilyn and Joe divorced. They attributed the split to a “conflict of careers,” and remained close friends. Marilyn was ready to shed her “shallow blonde” image by 1955. It had gotten her into the spotlight, but now that she had the opportunity and experience, Marilyn wanted to pursue serious acting. She took a hiatus from Hollywood and moved to New York City to study under Lee Strasberg at his Actors’ Studio.In 1956, Marilyn started her own motion picture company, Marilyn Monroe Productions. The company produced Bus Stop and The Prince and the Showgirl (co-starring Sir Laurence Olivier). These two films allowed her to demonstrate her talent and versatility as an actress. Marilyn received further recognition for 1959’s Some Like It Hot, winning a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Comedy. On June 29, 1956, Marilyn wed playwright Arthur Miller. Friends reported she made him “giddy.” While they were married, Arthur wrote the part of Roslyn Taber in 1961’s The Misfits especially for Marilyn. The movie co-starred Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. Sadly, the marriage between Marilyn and Arthur ended on January 20, 1961, and The Misfits was to be Marilyn’s (and Gable’s) last completed film.

At the 1962 Golden Globes, Marilyn was named female World Film Favorite, once again demonstrating her widespread appeal. Sadly, in a shocking turn of events on the early morning of August 5, 1962, 36-year-old Marilyn died at her Brentwood, California home. The world was stunned. Marilyn’s vibrant spirit and beauty made it impossible to believe she was gone. On August 8, 1962, Marilyn’s body was laid to rest in the Corridor of Memories, #24, at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California. https://themarilynmonroecollection.com/marilyn-monroe-biography/

Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend

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