Director Andrew Dominik's new film addresses the sense of paranoia that plagued the star
, Marilyn Monroe is shown falling into the depths of drug addiction and despair. The camera almost turns into night mode and shows her to be a paranoid wreck: is there someone bugging her phone? Are they watching her from a van outside her house? Is that shadow in her bedroom a real person?
Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson, was a person of interest not just to her hoards of fans in the ‘50s, but to the United States authorities. However, it wasn’t until she came into the orbit of her soon-to-be third husband Arthur Miller that the federal bureau began to follow her. By the nature of their relationship, Monroe was believed to be part of some orchestrated group. One gossip columnist referred to Monroe as “the darling of the left wing intelligentsia, several of whom are listed as Red fronters”. She was warned by her studio bosses to leave the relationship with Miller, for fear it would impact on her reputation as Hollywood’s golden girl.
managed to get the redacted Monroe files – that had previously been “lost” – released. It transpired that Monroe had been targeted and monitored for seven years, from 1955 until her death.about how the actress had “drifted into the communist orbit”, with Miller as the frontman of a communist group, and alleged that “Marilyn Monroe Productions was ‘filled with communists’ and that money from the company was being used to finance communist activities”.
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