'Reframed: Marilyn Monroe' fails to impart a genuine sense of who Monroe was; it replaces one mythic interpretation of her for another, nschager writes
, a great movie star, a gifted comedian, and a complicated human being whose personal and professional struggles played out in the harsh glare of Hollywood’s spotlight., however, cares little for Monroe’s complexity.
This isn’t to say that Monroe wasn’t sometimes unfairly and disgustingly looked down upon, denigrated and mistreated during her stratospheric rise and premature fall, culminating with her 1962 death at the age of 36.
Buoyed by photographs, film and press clips, and audio interviews with Monroe, director McGann’s investigation traces Monroe’s journey from aspiring contract-player starlet to leading lady—a trajectory that included clashes with Twentieth Century Fox head honcho Darryl F.
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