5. She had no control over her sexuality

她無法控制自己的性取向

Sex sells, and if anyone knew this, it was Monroe. While she was frustrated with the tendency for the press and film executives to reduce her to a sex symbol and nothing more, Monroe understood the power her unique sexuality could get her. Over and over, she was typecast in roles meant to look good on-screen and little else, but she wouldn’t allow the transaction to go one way.?

交易，如果有人知道這一點，那就是夢露。儘管她對媒體和電影業高管將她淪為性象徵的傾向感到失望，但夢露明白她獨特的性取向能給她帶來什麼樣的力量。她一次又一次地被安排扮演一些角色，這些角色的本意是讓她在銀幕上看起來很好，而不是別的什麼，但她不允許這種交易以一種方式進行。

“She manages to be sexually attractive, and the object of the male gaze in all of the ways that she needs to be,” says Sarah Churchwell of Monroe’s early performance in “Ladies of the Chorus,” “but she’s also making fun of it. And that is the moment at which Marilyn discovered how this performance was going to work for her.”

莎拉·丘吉爾（Sarah Churchwell）在談到夢露在《合唱團的女士們》中的早期表演時說：「她設法表現得性感迷人，並且以她需要的所有方式成為男性注視的對象。但她也在取笑這一點。正是在那一刻，瑪麗蓮發現了這場表演將如何對她起作用。」

Not only did Monroe lean into her status as a sex bomb, she also refused to be ashamed of it. Early in her career, Monroe posed nude for a photographer while strapped for money. Rather than capitulate to the popular conservatism of the time when the photoshoot was exposed in the press, Marilyn stood by her decision.?

夢露不僅以性炸彈的身份出現，而且拒絕為此感到羞恥。在職業生涯早期，門羅在經濟拮据的情況下為攝影師擺裸體姿勢。當這張照片被媒體曝光時，瑪麗蓮沒有屈服於當時流行的保守主義，而是堅持自己的決定。

“They said, “Did you pose for a calendar?'” recalled Monroe, “and I said, “Yes, anything wrong?’ “

他們說：「你擺姿勢準備日曆了嗎？」「夢露回憶道，」我說，「是的，有什麼問題嗎？」

6. She never spoke out against sexism in Hollywood

6.她從未公開反對好萊塢的性別歧視

The studio system in the 1940s and 1950s treated women like commodities; sex and relationships were exchanged and often expected in return for auditions and contracts.?

20世紀40年代和50年代的電影行業將女性視為商品；性和關係是相互交換的，通常期望得到試鏡和合同的回報。

Monroe was not exempt from participating, and she received a lot of unwanted advances as she worked toward a career in acting. At Columbia Pictures, studio head Harry Cohn invited Monroe on a trip on his yacht. Monroe suggested she would only come along if Cohn’s wife was also invited. Soon after her rejection, she was dropped from her contract.

夢露也不能免於參與，她在走向演藝事業的過程中獲得了很多不必要的麻煩。在哥倫比亞電影公司，工作室負責人哈里·科恩邀請夢露乘坐他的遊艇旅行。夢露建議，只有科恩的妻子也被邀請，她才會來。她被拒絕後不久，就被解除了合同。

Decades before the Times Up movement, Monroe detailed the harassment she faced in an article called “Wolves I Have Known” published in “Motion Picture and Television Magazine”. She wrote, “there are many types of wolves. Some are sinister, others are just good-time Charlies trying to get something for nothing and others make a game of it.” She called out the powerful men she’d faced as an up-and-comer and shined a light on the unsafe conditions women were forced to endure if they wanted a career in motion pictures.?

在泰晤士報起義之前幾十年，夢露在《電影和電視雜誌》上發表的一篇題為《我認識的狼》的文章中詳細描述了她所面臨的騷擾。她寫道：「狼有很多種。有些是邪惡的，有些只是不勞而獲的玩偶，而另一些則是惡作劇。」她大聲說出了她作為一個後起之秀所面對的那些有權勢的男人，並揭示了如果女性想要從事電影事業，她們必須忍受的不安全條件。

7. She wasn’t a serious actor

她不是一個專業的演員

Monroe is known for her iconic roles where she played ditzy blondes, but behind the scenes she was anything but mindless. Early in her career, she sought out guidance from Natasha Lytess, the head of drama at Columbia Pictures. According to “Marilyn Monroe: The Personal Archive” author Cindy de la Hoz, Lytess brought a “wealth of knowledge about theater [that] was very enticing to Marilyn. She wanted to get this kind of serious education about acting.”

夢露以她在劇中扮演的標誌性角色而聞名，但在幕後她一點也不盲目。在她的職業生涯早期，她向哥倫比亞電影公司的戲劇主管娜塔莎·萊特絲尋求指導。根據《瑪麗蓮·夢露：個人檔案》作者辛迪·德拉霍茲（Cindy de la Hoz）的說法，Lytess帶來了「關於戲劇的豐富知識，這對瑪麗蓮很有吸引力。她想接受這種關於表演的專業教育。」

Even after she’d achieved major success in her career, Monroe continued to seek out opportunities to become a more serious actor. She enrolled in classes with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York, where her peers looked down on the flashy careers of movie stars like her. But Monroe was a dedicated student of method acting, and she gained the respect of her classmates with her hard work.

即使在事業上取得了巨大成功之後，夢露仍在繼續尋找機會，成為一名更嚴肅的演員。她和李·斯特拉斯伯格一起在紐約的演員工作室上課，她的同齡人看不起像她這樣的電影明星浮華的職業生涯。但夢露是一個專註於方法表演的學生，她通過努力工作贏得了同學們的尊重。

Actress Ellen Burstyn witnessed Marilyn’s portrayal of Anna Christie at the studio. “Everybody who saw that says that it was not only the best work Marilyn ever did, it was some of the best work ever seen at Studio,” she recalled. “She achieved real greatness in that scene.”

女演員埃倫·伯斯廷在工作室見證了瑪麗蓮對安娜·克里斯蒂的刻畫。她回憶道：「每個看過這部電影的人都說，這不僅是瑪麗蓮做過的最好的作品，也是工作室里看過的最好的作品之一。」。「她在那一幕中取得了真正的偉大。」