WI Marilyn Monroe lives longer?

Thoughts? I'd say her drug addiction will kill her by the early 1970s latest, and her career was fading at the time of her death IOTL...
 
Marilyn was very liberal in her political beliefs, from what I understand. She may have become very involved in the protest movements of the Sixties.
 
Given her drug addiction and other emotional issues, I don't suspect she would age very gracefully. However, she had become an excellent comedic actress in her later career and if her ego didn't get in the way I could see her blossoming in roles that allowed her to make fun of herself and other typecast aging "blonde bimbos".

One certainly hopes she would resist the modern fetish for women to be thin and athletic scarecrows and stay voluptuously soft and squishy to the end.
 
Marilyn disliked being viewed as a brainless sex object. I recall a story where she gave a reporter a rather intellectual interview, and asked him not to ignore it, and he did and wrote about her dress size or something.

I think she'd get fed up and try to legitimize herself more with serious roles. If she does get involved in the things going on in the 1960's, it'd perhaps be a good way to get the public to see her as smarter.

She'd carry on banging her way through the Kennedy clan!
One Kennedy...maybe. There's a lot of other tail you can prove better than Marilyn that Jack jumped on.
 
maybe she could get involved with the civil right movement and the anti-vietnam war protests if she lives long enough.
 
If she manages to remain alive up today, I wouldn't be surprised she had someone to write a book about her relationships with the Kennedy clan to confirm or deny the rumors once and for all. Yet knowing that it might be like a tell-all book, we might have had some juicy material just waiting to be spilled out much to the annoyance of Ted Kennedy and the rest of the clan.
 
The problem is that nothing has ever been proven. Bob Dallek, who along with DKG is the leading JFK academic authority, has said that the phone logs showing calls from JFK to Monroe "suggest more than a passing acquaintance." He doesn't say that anything actually happened, though I would rate the chances of JFK banging Marilyn at 50-50 myself, knowing his personality. Peter Lawford (Pat's estranged husband) is a discredited source for a variety of reasons. I assume that we are only talking about JFK here, but I can shoot down anything else that might come to mind. ;)
 
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Alas, but I am of the opinion that IF Marilyn managed to get past the production of "Somethings Got to Give" and the current crisis she likely would have still died young and sexy some other way. :(

Bettie Page "Got God" in 1962 (or so) and just vanished. I doubt Marilyn could have done that given her fame, but I'd hope she'd find something to turn her life around. Maybe give the Yankee Clipper another try?

Or she fakes her own death and just vanishes.....to join Odessa where she finds true love and everlasting youth....gaaak...never mind.

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Alas, but I am of the opinion that IF Marilyn managed to get past the production of "Somethings Got to Give" and the current crisis she likely would have still died young and sexy some other way. :(

Bettie Page "Got God" in 1962 (or so) and just vanished. I doubt Marilyn could have done that given her fame, but I'd hope she'd find something to turn her life around. Maybe give the Yankee Clipper another try?

Or she fakes her own death and just vanishes.....

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According to the excellent DiMaggio biography A Hero's Life, Joe and Marilyn had reconciled to some extent and were even talking about getting married again, so there's a good chance of that. Whether or not it sticks (As Joe hated Marilyn in the Hollywood lifestyle), we'll never know.
 
She might have wound up on Broadway...

You know that is a great idea. She was actually a fine actress, The "Seven Year Itch" was a Broadway hit before she starred in the movie version. She had done Summerstock under the tutelage of "some famous theatre guy". IF the notoriously cliquish Broadway community gave her a fair chance I could see her talent in comedy and singing making her a Broadway musical theatre Deva of the first magnitude. But could she dance? I remember seeing some dancing in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" but don't recall other instances.

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