The many voices of Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe was a Meryl Streep level actress when it came to utilizing her voice. Most people don’t realize how many variations her voice had based on the character she was playing. #MarilynMonroe #VoiceActing #GreatActor #MerylStreep #OldHollywood #HollywoodHistory.
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The Kennedys deserve hell for what they did to her.
Meryl Streep truly is a Marilyn Monroe-level actress.
I love her so, so much. 😍♥🥰
I love their conversation before the subway grate moment. It’s very ‘monster lover trying to explain themselves to a normie.’ Her character had that in common with GDT
I’m glad you brought up a number for different characters, especially like the one in a bus stop and then hers and something‘s got to give also Rosalyn from the misfits and her character and don’t bother to knock all of them were great. 1:36 1:44
❤ Marylin was so underrated
Have read that she was just walking with a friend down Fifth
Avenue in NYC one day and no one was paying her any mind at all.
She asked her friend "Do you want to see her?"
And Norma Jean transformed into Marilyn Monroe as she was walking down the street and then everyone was paying mind.
For someone this famous, in the years since she passed, everything about her has been discussed and analyzed and yet somehow she retains her mystery.
One was fortunate to see the subway dress at Debbie Reynolds' casino in Las Vegas.
Comedians never get credit for being great. Marilyn Monroe is one of the greatest comedians of all time, her timing was insane. Her use of physical form was… dare I say…?
Perfect.
Mmm…. She's not a Meryl Streep actress on any level, including her limited charge of American accents. Not even close. But that's not saying I don't think she was a talented actress. She's an icon on her own right.
Thank you for this ❤
Very interesting comments and observations. I'm interested in voice and dialects and accents, in what they tell us about people, even such as the social background or class they may come from. I've never heard anyone discuss Marilyn Monroe's voice. I think she sounded natural or close to it in "The Asphalt Jungle"…in which she gave a brief but exellent performance. In "The Misfits" Marilyn's voice sounds natural…and she was really playing herself. That's the only movie in which she yells in anger.
100% correct! She was incredibly talented.
It's hard to believe she would have been 100 this year.
We were robbed when she died. That's such a true statement. I miss seeing her on the screen more than anyone else. Her timing, her singing and whichever voice she decided to use always made the character she was portraying perfect. Well perfect in my eyes. 💗🌹
Her voice was also very close to her own natural voice in her last film, The Misfits.
Utilized sounds so much fancier than plain old “used.”
Her speaking voice in The Prince and The showgirl seemed to be pretty close to natural. I really liked her more natural hair and makeup in that as well…. she looked beautiful. Unfortunately, the movie is kind of boring.
She was a brilliant artist who impacted global aesthetics in her lifetime and beyond, for such are legends.
A very insightful and thoughtful film.
You have to remember it wasn't Marilyn who was acting, it was Norma-Jeane. So NJ was double character acting by the time she was on screen and people wonder why she had a lot on her plate! 😮
Her voice in “Ladies of the Chorus” was pretty natural. I think it’s pretty much her real voice.
Wow…that’s actually such talent! I never paid attention to all the nuances she delivered 😮
You forgot River of No Return… She was so good in it 🙂
Thank you! 💖
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True. But you forget her first "big"part in " Love Happy". Pretty low and sultry.
I admit, I haven't yet watched her movies, but learning this made me respect her even more. Thank you for sharing this!
Please don't take this offensively.. but you look a lot like Marilyn !.. a good thing !!
Blessings !!
I agree, she still is completely underated. 💗
Thanks for sticking up for Marilyn. She really was a phenomenal actress. Ellen Burstyn said that when Marilyn was at the Actor’s Studio, she did some of the best work ever seen there. That’s an enormous achievement.
I love you hehe
Yeah, it was a shock to see her in the clips of "Something's Gotta Give." She doesn't have her supposed stutter.
In the still for this video, I was wondering what film that was from – but it wasn't her, it was you!
I am not commenting here to hate on your video, but the volume of your commentary are really low yet the clips are higher. Maybe you don't realize it because you left the volume stabilisation on in the yt vid setting but I had to constantly turn the volume up and down watching this vid 😊 all love
The way she spoke made her sound really dumb.
I think that likening her ability to Meryl Streep is going a bit far. Meryl possesses the uncanny ability to master any accent (i.e. including foreign) with total conviction but we never heard MM attempt any accent apart from a Southern American twang in ‘Bus Stop’. Even in the examples used here, to me there isn’t a huge difference in any of the voices she uses until the last, in ‘Something’s Got to Give’ where she pretty much uses her own . What does change in each clip though however, is the mood and delivery of her lines. It’s called Acting.
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