‘Marilyn’s tragedy was to be treated like Jessica Rabbit’

Marilyn Monroe struggled to reconcile her sex symbol status and her desire to learn, read and be considered for more than sheer beauty. The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Maureen Dowd delves behind the dumb blonde image of Marilyn Monroe projected to the world to find a more complex person.
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