Told through a female perspective-and an empathetic, post–#MeToo lens-the docuseries contends that contrary to the way she’s been depicted in the past, Monroe was a shrewd businesswoman who understood the industry’s misogynist rules and played them to her advantage. On Sunday, Greene, as well as Monroe biographer Sarah Churchwell and actors including Mira Sorvino, Amber Tamblyn, and Ellen Burstyn, looked back on Monroe’s life and career for a new CNN docuseries, Reframed: Marilyn Monroe, narrated by Jessica Chastain. Greene has been saying this for about 60 years, since Monroe was her roommate, occasional babysitter to her son, Joshua, and muse to her late photographer husband, Milton. She was a young, vital woman who loved life, loved parties, and had a good time.” But as Monroe’s friend, 92-year-old Amy Greene, tells us, “She was never a victim, sweetheart. Sixty years after Marilyn Monroe’s death, the blond bombshell is still remembered as a tragic figure-a passive victim of a patriarchal Hollywood.
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