50 years after her death an author who met the star has questioned her s-xual identity.
Marilyn Monroe the world s number one s-x symbol and the most desirable woman on the planet was not the ‘man-eating siren’ that her image suggested it has been revealed.
Fifty years after her death an author who met the star has questioned her s-xual identity.
Although she married and divorced three times she was though few people are aware of the fact a lesbian by inclination.
She admitted to s-xual encounters with actresses Joan Crawford Barbara Stanwick Marlene Dietrich and Elizabeth Taylor as well as with both her acting coaches Natasha Lutes and Paula Strasberg says the author.
Only a day before Jean Negus Lescot who directed her in ‘How To Marry A Millionaire was due to visit her Monroe was found dead.
“I still think I might have saved her if I could have got to her in time,” the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.
“You know what was wrong with her don't you?
“Her whole existence was a search for identity and her s-xual identity was a complete lie.
“She told me once she had never had an orgasm with a man in her entire life,” he said.
And yet Negus lassos assertion is validated by the taped transcripts of Marilyn's sessions of psychoanalysis with her psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Green son at the end of her life.
“What I told you is true when I first became your patient,” she says in the transcripts.
“I had never had an orgasm. I well remember you said an orgasm happens in the mind not the genitals.
“When I did exactly what you told me to do I would have an orgasm?…?what a difference a word makes.
“You said I would not I could. Bless you doctor. What you say is gospel to me,” she said.
Another of those who worked with Monroe actress Celeste Holm who appeared with her in All About Eve and who died last Sunday said that Marilyn's s-xual problems were rooted in her traumatic childhood.
Born illegitimately in 1926 to an unmarried mother in the charity ward of the Los Angeles General Hospital she was originally known as Norma Jeanne Mortenson the child of a 24-year-old film negative cutter Gladys Pearl Monroe Mortenson who developed schizophrenia.
Both of Gladys parents Otis Elmer Monroe and Della Monroe Grainger lived out their twilight years in mental institutions while Gladys brother Marion was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
So it is small wonder that the child who became Marilyn Monroe grew up with a deep-rooted fear of genetic insanity.
This according to Celeste Holm gave Marilyn a lifelong terror of pregnancy.
In addition to her fear of giving birth to an abnormal child Marilyn suffered from devastating bouts of endometriosis, gynae ecological condition causing intense pelvic pain severe cramps and painful periods.
It made normal s-xual intercourse difficult and uncomfortable.
“Because of this Marilyn was never able to enjoy s-x with men,” Holm said.
“She was afraid of it and turned to older women as s-xual role models,” she had said.
After Marilyn had become a world-famous s-x symbol her first husband Jim Dougherty who joined the Merchant Marine in 1943,would brag: “Never had I encountered a girl who so thoroughly enjoyed a s-xual union. It made our lovemaking pure joy”.
But this sadly was far from the truth.
“Jim told me privately that she spent most of their early marriage locked in the bathroom,” Martin Evans a friend of Jim's at the time they married,” said.
“She had s-x books and manuals that were given to her and none of them made a difference.
“She was scared. From my information she even asked if it were possible for her to never have s-x with Jim. “Could they just be friends?” she wondered.
“To be honest I don't think they had a good s-x life ever despite what Jim later claimed,” he said.
According to Holm for years Marilyn was in love with the idea of being Betty Grable the Forties star known as the Girl With The Million Dollar Legs).
In 1969,Grable said me that she had found Monroe's pursuit of her sometimes scary but you have to understand that all her problems had to do with her not being able to have a child.
Another female star Marilyn pursued and propositioned was Judy Garland who married three gay men among her five husbands.
Shortly before Marilyn signed with Columbia Pictures in 1948,she met Natasha Lyres a failed actress who was a drama coach at the studio.
“I want to recreate you. I shall mold you into the great actress I suspect you can be. But to do so you must submit to me. Do you understand?” she told Marilyn.
In 1950,Marilyn moved into her apartment while she was being escorted by a new father-figure the venerable Hollywood agent Johnny Hyde.
When Hyde died from a heart attack in December 1950,Natasha rescued Marilyn from a suicide attempt with a drug overdose.
Marilyn told her close friend actor Ted Jordan that she and Natasha were sleeping together.
