Marilyn - Not Only a Dolly

Marilyn has been immortalized in hundreds of images, with her skirt fluttering in 'The Seven Year Itch,' adorned with jewels in 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,' in semi-transparent attire in 'Some Like It Hot'... But have we ever seen her absorbed in the reading of a book? And here she is, captured within the pages of James Joyce's 'Ulysses,' a book Marilyn had started reading with curiosity. Taking advice from her third husband, playwright Arthur Miller, Marilyn became interested in the works of Beckett and Whitman, and she herself wrote diaries and poems. The actress, too blonde and dazzling to be taken seriously, reveals an aspect of herself that remained unknown to many.