Marilyn Monroe
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 by Mark | Posted in Business, Celebrity Branding, Marketing, Unconventional Thinking | CommentsA billion women came before Marilyn Monroe. A billion have come after.
But she has never shared the stage, the life stage, with anyone. She is a timeless beauty, an exotic wonder woman, a sexual shockwave, an object of universal lust. And an extraordinary business lesson.
No woman ever stood in a room with Marilyn and felt beautiful. No man ever shared her presence and felt sane. She stole the heart of the most heroic athlete of her time, Joe DiMaggio–himself an American icon. She captured the soul of the greatest American playwright, Arthur Miller. She married them both and then she moved on to Camelot and wrapped the Commander-In-Chief, JFK, around her finger.
Marilyn is of no distinct period in history. She is known to teenagers and seniors alike, urban and rural, Elton John (who sings beautifully about her) and Vladmir Putin, (who has watched her films). The world loves Marilyn. Even those who pretend they are too smart and sophisticated to admit they do.
Marilyn Monroe is irresistible.
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June 25th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Hello,
I have been reading your blog for a few weeks now, it has been refreshing and revitalizing. It so unfortunate that as marketers, as a community we have become so compromised that such thoughts have become “unconventional”. What happened to being BOLD and explicit, striving for greatness, making dreams reality…
With new and emerging technology, and tremendous insight into our target market(s) I find it highly offensive that so many marketers seize at the chance of taking risk and being innovative instead of relishing in the opportunity to showcase their passion and desire to persuade and create value.
Maybe PASSION has been replaced with SECURITY…
Casey Davy
June 27th, 2009 at 4:09 am
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January 5th, 2013 at 8:56 am
Weird the Shall I be her? Who? Marilyn! scene looks like a direct steal from a scene in the Catherine Hicks Marilyn TV bio pic from thitry years ago ( Do you want to see her? Who? Marilyn! ).I want to love this movie, but Branagh seems more like Olivier than Williams seems like Marilyn. Great cast, though, so I’ll be there hoping for the best.
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