Brief clip of Marilyn Monroe’s funeral. Eulogy given by Lee Strasberg. Narrated by John Huston.
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Marilyn Monroe – Funeral – Brief clip
Brief clip of Marilyn Monroe’s funeral. Eulogy given by Lee Strasberg. Narrated by John Huston.
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ever notice how she was born 1926 and she died 1962 iz backwards aww she was beauiful she died way 2 early rip marilyn monroe
marilyn marilyn
@jiko882 What an obnoxious statement. Clearly you know nothing about Marilyn- she converted to Judaism in 1956, and you’d better not be saying that Jews are going to hell for not loving Jesus.
Hope She Loves Jesus (idk where she going either hell or heaven)
@G00200135 Sorry your life has brought you to such a sour and personally destructive place that you would make unfounded accusations of a deceased person that you clearly did not know from Adam (inside joke)…While it is true that Lee put his artistic pursuits ahead of other considerations, it doesn’t follow that his handling of Marilyn’s things shows he didn’t care for her, or that he was motivated by ‘profit.’ If you had a talent, you’d get it. He was at the top of his field when she died.
Lee ‘preserved’ her possessions so that his family could profit from them, knowing they would be worth more as time went on. He did not honour her last dying wishes that her possessions be given to those whom she was devoted to. If he truly cared about her he would not have done this. This act just seems to show him as another person who used marilyn for his owqn personal benefit. Marilyn was a person, not a piece of art to be profited from.
Her addictions are not what killed her. She was not a typical ‘drug addict’- she suffered terribly from insomnia, for years, and the pills she took were to help her sleep. They were all prescribed by her doctors, and they are partially to blame because they just kept filling them in ever increasing doses.
poor marilyn:(. if only she could’ve received help for her addictions.
You are correct that Lee never made money off Marilyn’s possessions, however, he did not honor Marilyn’s wishes. They were not preserved, either, they were stored in a warehouse carelessly and many were damaged by moths and water. I don’t think Marilyn would approve of her wishes being disregarded, and I sincerely doubt she would approve of Anna, who never even knew her, so shamelessly profiteering off her image by slapping it on every cheap tchotchke she can make a buck off of.
@mowtay PART III: Lee’s daughter, Susan, stated: “that a good part of [my father's] estate was 75% of Marilyn’s estate.” Marilyn assumed Lee would “care for her, protect her in death as he had tried to do,…if unsuccessfully in life. Now she would be in the hands of people who had never known or loved or respected her as she so desperately wanted. Marilyn Monroe, who was not so unreasonably? paranoid about strangers, now belonged to them.”
@mowtay PART II: Lee NEVER licensed her name, nor did he sell her things. Marilyn stipulated, in her will that Strasberg “distribute these, in his sole discretion, among my friends, colleagues and? those to whom I am devoted.” He DID NOT. I don’t think Marilyn would approve of THAT. Not long after Lee died, his next wife trademarked Marilyn. Right after Susan and Joe died (THE SAME YEAR) she sold all of Marilyn’s things to the highest bidder.
@mowtay PART I: I always appreciate an articulate and well informed comment! Thank you for stopping by and contributing. My response is broken up into segments. I have even more to say, but I’ll not go deeper into it.
I’m well aware of how close Marilyn was to Lee, Paula, Susan, and John.? She was NOT close to nor did she ever know ANNA, Lee’s next wife. Those are the people who are exploiting Marilyn, not Lee, his granddaughter from Susan, or his son John.
Lee Strasberg and his earlier wife Paula took Marilyn in and cared for her. She could not have lucked into the hands of better more caring mentors. Lee never made money off of Marylin’s possessions himself. To the contrary, he preserved them. If you knew him at all, you’d know selfishness was not his flaw. Perhaps only that he did not prioritize dealing with Marilyn’s things ahead of his important artistic contribution. Marylin would not approve of your nasty sniping.
@G00200135 re: her possessions…
WOW! Thank you SO MUCH for articulating this! It’s EXACTLY as I feel about it. Her things have been scattered to the winds.. most collectors take good care of her things, but some do not. A lot of her things are now lost and damaged. I fondest wish was that they all go into the Smithsonian. Terrible exploitation by a woman who NEVER EVEN MET MARILYN. People are profiting off of her and will continue to.. people that never new her. GREED! And it’s shameful.
@PINKFAIRYGIRL86: That’s one of the sweetest sentiments I’ve ever heard about Marilyn… :o) thanks, sweetie, for commenting!
But it was the producers at fox that made her change her name to make her more ‘commercial’. She actually hated the name marilyn and wanted to be called jean but the producers felt there were too many jeans’. Monroe was a family name.
Since Marilyn belonged to the world, her possessions should have been put in a museum, not auctioned to the highest bidder. The Strasbergs should have donated her possessions to a museum to make up for their fathers betrayal instead of profiting from her death. Even in death she was exploited.
Yes, what a selfish man he was. It is just further proof that those around marilyn were not concerned for her at all and merely for what they could get from her. So sad!
Marilyn was only on the drugs prescribed by her doctor who I feel was a major player in her murder. Why else would he have waited so long to call the ambulance? He over-prescribed her not unlike michael jacksons doctor.
She was rejected by her father, her mother was in a psych ward, aunt became ill and couldn’t look after her, in and out of foster homes, she was sexually assaulted on 2 occasions. She was forced into marriage at 16. All her husbands had jealousy issues. Being marilyn was a fresh start for her because she felt loved for the first time in her life. She had a quote about knowing she belonged to the world because she had ‘never belonged to anyone else’.
I would like to know just WHO is getting all the millions of dollars from the auctions, etc., of MM’s clothing, personal items, etc….I have been trying to find out more about this but keep hitting brick walls Anna Strasberg, who is the executor of MM’s estate now, is, I hope giving some of these millions to MM’s half-sister, Berneice Miracle, and her daughter!!!
Does anyone have ANY info on this????? Sure would like to know!!!!
It was definitely a cover-up. All because she was going to expose the secrets of the Kennedys. But I think the Kennedys became cursed because of this. It just shows there is karma. She never got any justice for her murder.
I think she was killed by the goverment.
She was lost I think bc she had no true family foundation & she wasnt MARILYN MONROE, she was Norma Jeane I think she was lost in “marilyn monroe” and looked for love for a long time & its really sad
God shared her with us because she was an angel that was just to beautiful not to shared with the world. I love you Marilyn.
Yes, the part about DiMaggio handling the arrangements is partially true. He did it along with her half-sister Berniece Miracle and Inez Melson.
He felt that her Hollywood friends aided her in her early demise-by not-doing anything to help her.
Many celebrities were not allowed into the services.
Pater Lawford and his wife Pat Kennedy, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra-to name a few.