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‘A star image consists both of what we normally refer to as his or her “image”, made up of screen roles and obviously stage managed appearances, and also of images of the manufacturing of that “image” and of the real person’. Discuss this statement with
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In the 1950’s Hollywood was at it best. It was the golden years where many of the film stars achieve icon status. The studios of this time produced many stars, which resulted in them earning a lot of money. Some of these stars were Gene Kelly, Grace Kelly, James Stewart and Marilyn Monroe. The studio companies of Hollywood soon realised that they could make a lot of money through these stars so they put them in the best roles and marketed them very well in order to draw the public in. They manufactured some of these stars in a certain way in order to attract the right sector of the public, which were those who would spend money on the films and merchandise. At this time Marilyn Monroe was just entering the film world. She was not yet in the mainstream which gave the studio companies time to work on her and create her own image, one that would earn them recognition and money. Marilyn Monroe was a unique woman who was different in a special way with many hidden talents as well as visual ones. They used her image to sell her to the public and they loved her. Men thought they could be with her and women thought they could be her. Marilyn Monroe was a sex goddess of the 50’s. She had fans throughout the world that felt inspired by her. She was loved by so many people and had everything a girl could dream of. But this was not always the case. As a child she was known as Norma Jean Baker she had a bad childhood, no father figure and her mother suffer from psychological problem and spent most of her time in mental hospitals while Norma bounced from foster home to foster home. She too like many other people had her idols those that she looked up to and wanted to be like. Jean Harlow the original platinum blonde and Lana Turner inspired her and like them she wanted to be a famous beautiful actress when she grew up. She wanted to have thousands of people to love her so that she felt needed and wanted. She wanted the beauty and the riches. “The whole world seemed sort of closed to me. I felt on the outside of everything, all I could do was to dream”. Due to the fact that she had an unusually upbringing she became more determine than ever to make a life in the film business. She wanted to change her image re-invent herself to be the opposite of what she was and in a way create a totally different life for herself. Therefore she set out to make her dreams come true. The first thing she done was to change her name and dye her hair platinum blonde. Soon after this she was notice by a photographer and he described her as ‘every photographers dream’. She then began modelling around 1944 and received much attention. She signed her first studio contract with Fox in 1946. In 1948 Tom Kelley photograph her for playboy. She was on the cover for the first edition of playboy, which also included her golden dreams calendar. She was soon becoming the ‘living embodiment’ of what the image of a woman should be. Monroe began to create an image, which would be successful and earn her good movie roles. In this picture Monroe was completely nude posing in a quite seductive position and it became the topic of discussion in men’s locker rooms. As Monroe status accelerated much controversy was raised about the calendar and picture. Hollywood had the unwanted connection with playboy and disliked the image but what the public failed to recognise was that the picture was taken 4 years ago and at the time Monroe needed the money.
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