A new Los Angeles exhibition, Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon, opens this weekend at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Some of Monroe’s last recorded words come from a restored audio recording of her final interview, published in Life magazine the day before she died. The display includes dramatic costumes and photography, but letters, notes, and personal effects create the strongest impact. The exhibition features a red-carpet entrance hallway with a large video screen showing Monroe blowing kisses, with her songs playing overhead. It is decorated in red with chandeliers and heart-shaped pillows referencing Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend, and the pink dress from that scene is shown prominently after rarely appearing publicly.
"With fame, you can read about yourself and somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about you, for survival and living day to day with oneself, Marilyn Monroe said in 1962. I like people, but the public scares me."
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