The public likes provocative feminine personalities, but it also likes to know that underneath it all the actresses are ladies.

—Actress Joan Crawford, 1953

Miss Monroe’s wriggling and squirming are embarrassing to behold.

—A review of Show Business, 1954

… too plump, but beautiful in a way … she smiled too high, and it made her nose look a little long …

—Emmeline Snively, director of a modeling school Monroe attended


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