Marilyn reads Joyce’s Ulysses at the playground 1955
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· Dec 25, 2014 at 6:41 pm
Marilyn reads Joyce’s Ulysses at the playground 1955
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That’s a gorgeous photo.
Eve Arnold
http://www.magnumphotos.com/evearnold
Nice site.. This one of Jane Fonda cracks me up:
http://www.magnumphotos.com/CorexDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/6/7/9/4/LON25312.jpg
this seems unfair to marilyn, but elaine read the same book. the unfairness stems from “i can’t remember the book”.
anyway, it seems marilyn was addled a lot of the time. stories abound, they’re not hard to find,
she was making a movie and needed to cross a room, open a drawer, and say her line. i believed they trimmed it down to one line.
after 29 takes and not getting it right, they wrote the line on a piece of paper and stuck it in the drawer.
take 30: she opened the wrong drawer.
she had aspirations, especially as an actress, but also just plain old “take me serious, i’m not just boobs, i’m smart too!”.
it’s kinda hard for me to believe she read that deep into Ulysses.
keamoose pointed out it seems she’s looking at the inside back cover page..aka blank.
Still one of the best pics I’ve seen of her.
no argument. it’s a great shot of a beautiful woman. i also noticed the back cover thing. maybe she’s reading the author bio or something.
and in full disclosure, i’ve never read Ulysses. i’d like to have read it, but it eludes me.
Mark Twain said something very close to, “A classic is something everybody wants to have read but nobody wants to read.”