Thread by @coffeespoonie

Good morning,
Marilyn Monroe was a communist Jew who was killed by either the FBI or CIA because she was going to come forward with a journal called "the red diary" where she kept written record of her conversations with the Kennedy bros whomst she was shtupping.
Have a good day.

She also had endometriosis and bipolar and was a chronically ill icon. #TrueFacts

She was raised by fundamentalist Christians in one of her abusive foster homes and it left her with a distaste for fundementalism and Christianity.
She converted to Judaism in 1956 under Rabbi Robert E. Goldburg; he says she was attracted to the "rationalism"+"ethics" of Judaism.

She became interested when she became involved with Arthur Miller, the most celebrated playwrite of the time, and a secular Jew, but she did not convert for him. He had married gentile women before and did not expect Marilyn to convert, but she wanted to + pursued it for herself.

She was quite serious about her conversion and very sincere in her love of Judaism. It began before Arthur, and it would continue after her and Arthur divorced, until her death. Letters between her & her rabbi detail her sincerity about her conversion to Reform Judaism.

Also:
She surrounded herself with fellow Jews in her last years, including the two people closest to her at her time of death: her shrink, Ralph Greenson, as well as her acting coach/mentor, Lee Strasburg, and their families. She would leave her estate to Strasburg.

NOW for the ☭Commie☭ thing.

Marilyn Monroe had pretty radical (for the time) progressive politics that are often left out of her legacy because people are trash. She was pro-Cuba, pro-Castro, pro-China, pro-communism, pro-civil rights, anti-racism, and fucking haaated J Edgar.

Arthur Miller was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. They wanted him to rat out his fellow Commies that were at a meeting. He refused. Marilyn publicly voiced her support for him & his refusal to cooperate. Many threatened her & her career for doing so.

Marilyn shocked USians when she voiced her support.

She was never called to testify. Arthur Miller has said she was able to get away with more because she was presumed to be an "air-headed silly blonde". One file called her a "dumb blonde".

(yes, d*mb is ableist; it's a quote.)

Sidenote: Marilyn was actually quite bright but between grown up penniless & parentless in orphanages & foster homes & fundamentalist families & being married off at 16, she was never formally educated (beyond "don't offend the big man in the sky or else" but idk if that counts).

She got into trouble for reading radical texts later on in the age of McCarthyism, and was quite autodidactic. Once she famously said of one of her co-stars "Jane tried to convert me to Christianity and I tried to introduce her to Freud".

One of my other favorite quotes of hers is when a director wanted to do a super up close shot of her face for a movie (Bus Stop) and the cameraman kept saying no because it'd be too startling for the audience or too big and then said "no look his head is cut off" (of the costar),

to which she responded "the audience won't miss the top of your head, Don. They know it's there; it's already been established."

Anyways then she fucked some of the Kennedys (first Jack then Bobby), and the government killed her because she was going to come forward with the book in which she wrote down her convos with her + the POTUS (JFK) and her + the AG (Bobby) which came to be known as The Red Diary.

Have a good day :)

Marilyn Monroe is constantly undersold because of the image she was forced to take on to make her more appealing for the male gaze, but she was a true icon. There are loads of stories of her leveraging her fame to get ppl to treat others better. She stood up for so many workers.

There's one story of her on the set of the River Of No Return that her costar Robert Mitchum has told in interviews.

They were shooting a scene on a raft and there was a man in the water blasting them with a firehose.

Mitchum says Monroe looked at him and "almost whimpered".

He asked her what was wrong. She gestured to the guy with the hose. "Look at him, he's freezing, he's turning blue." Mitchum basically shrugged it off. But Marilyn then stopped, and refused to begin again til the man was replaced with someone who was warmer.

Another story.

Ella Fitzgerald had a hard time booking certain clubs in the fifties, because racism. This included a very popular club in Hollywood called Mocambo.

Marilyn was one of Ella's biggest fans, and heard she was being refused because of her race.

In Ella's words:

“I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him--and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status--that the press ...

... would go wild.
The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard.
After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it."

On today, the 56th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death on August 5th 1962, remember her as more than just a fashion & beauty icon and renowned actress.

Remember her for who she was and what she believed, as well.

I have to mute but I will add sources for those looking for more info!

Sources for those asking!

On her Jewishness:
reformjudaismmag.net/2010-Spring/PD…

thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/be…

marilynmonroe.ca/camera/rabbi/

On her politics:
time.com/4346542/radica…

theatlantic.com/entertainment/…

On her affair with the Kennedies (plural of "Kennedy", of course) :
people.com/politics/maril…

documentaries including the quotes i mentioned in the thread:

oh and this one as well!

People who want me to provide definitive proof that she was killed by the CIA/FBI:

1) I am a civilian who couldn't hack into a Neopets account. I have the same info that is available to you+everyone else.

2) watch the documentaries if you so curious. I posted them for a reason!