Just you
Nobody else but you
I wanna be loved by you
Alone
So it goes, the song sung by Norma Jean. Made famous by her. No one has had much success with it since her rendition.
Tough act to follow!
Who was Norma Jean?
She was a baby born out of wedlock to a woman who was emotionally fragile. Norma Jean was shuffled between foster homes, orphanages as well as occasionally her mother, when her mother was emotionally & financially stable enough to take care of her. This went on for the first 15 years of her life.
She was painfully shy, quiet, even stuttered for a few years during a very traumatic time in her life. She was also very hard working, obedient, kind hearted, emotionally fragile at times.
When her only choice was to go back to an orphanage or get married at 16, she chose to marry a 21 year old neighbor.
This decision changed the course of her life.
For the first time in her 16 years she belonged to someone who belonged to her.
Then, when her husband joined the Merchant Marines, she was alone again when he shipped out. She began working in a factory where photographers went in search of beautiful home-town girls to pose for photos for the soldiers fighting for their country around the world.
This put Norma Jean on the path to becoming one of the most desired women in history.
Though she was later, desired, lusted after, what she really wanted was what many girls still want, yet, have great difficulty finding in a guy.
She wanted to be truly loved, truly respected by one guy.
It's just as difficult to find in today's world.
When I hear the lament of girls in today's perilous singles climate of wanting so much to have just one guy to love & respect them, I think of Norma Jean.
When I hear the pain in my single sisters voices, I remind them that even the most beautiful women in the world have difficulty finding someone to love them as they are. All girls are pretty enough, are at the right body weight and size, are smart enough. In fact, all that a girl is, is enough for the right guy. The wrong guy will pick apart who she is, expecting her to change, to be different than she is.
In fact, again, who she is, is enough for the right guy.
Norma Jean struggled with this.
She was a natural, curly haired brunette. She had a slightly discolored front tooth. So, her hair was styled into a platinum shorter, more straight style. Her front tooth was veneered, she had an implant put into her chin, she had her nose re-shaped into one with a smooth tip.
Marilyn Monroe was the result.
The song, "I Wanna' Be Loved By You", seems so fitting for such an intelligent, yass! Such an intelligent, tender hearted, beautiful one as she, Norma Jean or Marilyn Monroe, sought constantly, rarely finding throughout her 36 years.
Shocker?
She was born in the same year as Queen Elizabeth of England.
Same age.
Had she lived, Marilyn would be 85 years of age, now.
Tomorrow, August 5, 2017, will mark 55 years since that wonderful one's flame was extinguished.
She passed from this earth, yet, made her mark.
She has passed on, yet, is forever remembered. Marilyn didn't like the finality of saying goodbye. She was often hear to say~
"Hold a good thought for me."
Wherever you are, Norma, millions are holding a good thought for you.
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Joe Dimaggio loved her fiercely
ReplyDeleteHe sure did, yet, he also beat her up three times before she left him after only 1 year.
DeleteJoltin' Joe married Marilyn, thinking she would give up the career that she had fought so hard to build and stay at home with him, making babies and marinara sauce (his favorite).
He married her, thinking he could change who she had fought so hard to become. When she didn't, he slapped her around. Most people don't know this.