WI: Marilyn Monroe Lives

I did read a story in an an sf mag decades ago called "The Monroe Doctrine" She is elected in 1968 and if I recaull correctly in the course of a sumit conceives Breznef's love child
 
Could she have gone behind the camera as director or writer or producer? Maybe do a Lucille Ball.

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Max Rakus

Banned
If she did become president who would be in her cabinet? Would she get reelection? what about her successor?
 
She would likely follow a similar career path of most starlets of her time, and focus on more serious acting roles as she got older. As to what movies she would star in is up for speculation.
 
According to one of her more reliable (IMO) biographers, Donald Spoto, Marilyn had not only reconciled with Joe DiMaggio by early August 1962, but was only a few days away from remarrying him, in fact, she was making the preparations for a home wedding such as ordering floral arrangements and catering. DiMaggio, in fact, was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles on the 5th/6th.

Monroe had also reached at least an informal agreement with 20th Century-Fox to resume "Something's Got To Give", and several sources, Spoto among them I believe, say that the contract had indeed been signed. Shooting was scheduled to resume later that month or in the fall, though I'm not sure whether the production team would have picked up where it started or started afresh.

Spoto also claims:

1) That Marilyn was deeply dissatisfied with her psychiatrist (and her housekeeper, who it turns out was snooping on Monroe on behalf of said psychiatrist), and was about to fire both of them.
2) That Marilyn, contrary to gossip, had never had any sort of romantic or sexual connection with Robert F. Kennedy, though she did have sex with JFK. She was a deep admirer of RFK, however, and may well have campaigned for him when he moved on to the Senate and later tried for the Presidency.

And for my out-there speculation:

Marilyn's great hero was Abraham Lincoln and she became a self-taught expert on him, especially after having met Carl Sandburg. Maybe her level of expertise on the subject gets to the point that she ends up writing TTL's version of Team of Rivals, which ends up getting made into TTL's analogue of Lincoln? :D
 
How could one resist?

I suppose it smacks of ASBs, but what if Marilyn had had a child by JFK, gave birth after her revival? Somewhere along the way she would have hidden the baby for whatever reason, but that child would live, and be taken care of, with only Marilyn, John (and maybe Jackie) Kennedy knowing the truth.
Blackmail is not impossible but what else?:rolleyes:

Or is this too far out to be acceptable?:confused:
 
I don't thinks that Marilyn would run for elected office. She would continue to work as a actress.

Crazy idea, her doing a TV show in the 1970's. Maude staring Marilyn Monroe?
 
Emperor Norton I said:
Could we see Monroe take on a more political role and try to shed her sex symbol only status? I do know Marilyn was upset that people just thought of her as pretty
I can see her taking on more political causes.

I've also heard she was a much better actress than most people give her credit for. I've seen a bio of her saying she was as good as Brando.:eek: The trouble was, she was so great looking, & had done so few serious roles, she couldn't get serious parts.

So, suppose she gets something where she's cast completely against the dumb blonde type. What film in the '63-5 period might do it? Something where you want star power to carry it. Probably something small that OTL didn't do so well, because it didn't get any...

OTOH, capitalize on her sex symbol status & cast her in "A Shot in the Dark" (debut The Pink Panther, or "The Pink Panther" in '64), or "Hud", or "Bye Bye Birdie" in place of Ann-Margaret or Ava Gardner?
Emperor Norton I said:
I meant being an activist and a public voice and public figure of movements, much as when Heston supported Civil Rights, or Jane Fonda got involved in politics, or when Brando went to bat for the American Indians.
You don't suppose she'd go to Hanoi?:eek::eek: Or become one of Sterling Hayden's honorary VC?:eek:

What about going to Selma or Montgomery or someplace? The March on Washington?

Or, taking roles in more overtly political films? Say, "55 Days at Peking"?
Whanztastic said:
So what would be her name after her conversion to Islam? :p
LOL.:D

Why do I want to say Norma Jean Shazam?:p
 
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I like the idea of Marilyn in A Shot in the Dark and I could see her in Hud also.
O'neil won Best Actress in OTL for Hud. I wonder if Marilyn would have.

I think she too old for Bye Bye Birdy if she doing the Ann Marget role.
And I can't see her in 55 Days in Peking if she doing the Ava Gardner Role.
 
I like the idea of Marilyn in A Shot in the Dark and I could see her in Hud also.
O'neil won Best Actress in OTL for Hud. I wonder if Marilyn would have.

I think she too old for Bye Bye Birdy if she doing the Ann Marget role.
And I can't see her in 55 Days in Peking if she doing the Ava Gardner Role.


What other films would she have try for?
Would she have been Old enough to do Mrs Robinson in the Graduate?
 
unclepatrick said:
What other films would she have try for?
Would she have been Old enough to do Mrs Robinson in the Graduate?
I was thinking of a couple of roles gotten by Barbara Eden, who is about 5yr younger. "The Graduate" would be excellent, IMO; she's actually about 5yr older than Bancroft (who got it).
 

Max Rakus

Banned
Maybe she can have her own show I have been recently thinking of a Very earlier predecessor to The show The Nanny. Monroe's The Nanny Would Probably air from 1963 to 1969 however I need some hypothetical actors I have only thought of one so far and that would be Jane Russell
 
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