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Quotes
About Marilyn Monroe
"This girl had something I hadn't seen since silent pictures. She had a kind of fantastic beauty like Gloria Swanson and she radiated sex like Jean Harlow. She didin't need a soundtrack to tell her story."
--Leon Shamroy, the cinematographer who shot Marilyn's first screen test
"Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than on. There was something touching and appealing about her."
--John Huston, director of The Misfits and The Asphalt Jungle
"She seemed very shy, and I remember that when the studio workers would whistle at her, it seemed to embarrass her."
--Cary Grant, co-star in Monkey Business
"I did Niagara with her. I found her marvelous to work with and terrifically ambitious to do better. And bright. She may not have had an education, but she was naturally bright."
--Henry Hathaway, director of the 1952 film
"She represents to man something we all want in our unfulfilled dreams. A man, he's got to be dead not to be excited by her."
--Jean Negulesco, director of How to Marry a Millionaire.
"Marilyn's a phenomenon of nature, like Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon. All you can do is stand back and be awed by her."
--Nunnally Johnson, producer of How to Marry a Millionaire
"It's a toss whetever the scenery of the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The mountainous scenery is spectacular, bu so in her own way is Marilyn Monroe."
--Bosley Crowther, movie critic for The New York Times
"She had a great natural dignity and was extremely intelligent. She was also exceedingly sensitive."
--Edith Sitwell, poet
"Marilyn was history's most phenomenal love godess."
--Philippe Halsman, photographer
"She saw herself drowning in Hollywood in 1955 and told her studio, I'm not just wiggling my behind. Marilyn is not just one thing , she's multidimensional. As an actress, she has lots of imitators-but only Marilyn survives."
--Eli Wallach, Marilyn's co-star in The Misfits
"I saw that what she looked like was not what she really was, and what was going on the inside her was not was going on outside, and that always means there may be something to work with. In Marilyn's case, the reactions were phenomenal. She can call up up emotionally what is required for a scene. Her range is infinite."
--Lee Strasberg, creator-director of the Actors Studio