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     • Yes. Born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, Monroe did not know her father. In 2022, DNA testing revealed that her father was Charles Stanley Gifford, a co-worker of her mother's at Consolidated Film Industries, where her mother, Gladys, worked as a film negative cutter (Variety).
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   • ‘Blonde’ trailer Separating fact from fiction is tricky in the new Marilyn Monroe drama Blonde. The Netflix film, which stars Ana de Armas in its central role, doesn’t take the familiar form of a Hollywood biopic steeped in research.

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   • In the case of Marilyn, people believe what they want to believe. She lives in the fantasies of the national imagination, enshrined in a story with endless possibilities, plots, characters and events. Marilyn’s life and death have become flexible, plastic representations of a real person and a real event. …

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   • L to R: Adrien Brody as The Playwright & Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. 2022 © Netflix—2022 © Netflix In Blonde, one of the happiest and most idyllic periods of Marilyn’s life is during her romance and eventual marriage to “The Playwright,” a character based on Arthur Miller.

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   Sep 26, 2022 · Is Blonde based on a true story? Very loosely. Though the 166-minute film has the sweeping scope of a biopic, covering Monroe’s life from childhood to her ascent to stardom to her death, it...

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   Aug 5, 2024 · In watching Blonde, we see Ana de Armas play a character written by Andrew Dominik ⁠— adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’ character in her eponymous novel, fictionally based on Marilyn Monroe, who is presented as an invention by Norma Jeane Mortenson and Hollywood producers.

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   Sep 11, 2020 · As with many pop-culture figures, some overly hyped aspects of Monroe's story — such as her reputation as a "dumb blonde" and the mystery around her death — have often overshadowed other...

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   Sep 16, 2022 · Our Blonde fact-check revealed no evidence that this moment actually happened in real life. Pictured are Marilyn Monroe's mother, Gladys Pearl Baker (left), in real life, and Julianne Nicholson as Gladys in the movie.

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   Sep 30, 2022 · The much-talked about Netflix film documenting Marilyn Monroe is based on Joyce Carol Oates’s Pulitzer-nominated novel

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   Dec 26, 2011 · Sarah Churchwell, author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe, talks to Robert Siegel about what elements of the film ring true.

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    Sep 23, 2022 · How to decipher what's fact and fiction in the new Marilyn Monroe movie based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name, Blonde.