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Marilyn Monroe's final house
“Marilyn Monroe only exists on the big screen.”
Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas)
Despite the sultry nature of his adaptation of a novel already characterized by its audacity, Andrew Dominik had access to several authentic places related to the life of Marilyn Monroe. This is how he was able to shoot the death scene of the icon at 12305 5th Helena Drive, where the real Marilyn bowed out. This gives the sequence a very disturbing authenticity.
From book to screen
Andrew Dominik has been working on his adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel for several years, as he explained to the Telerama website: “The studios were rather reluctant because there are many American personalities who do not emerge from this story, notably President Kennedy. But let’s be honest, the main reason is that my films don’t make enough money. I wanted to do Blonde just after The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), but the film didn’t work. You can’t blame the studios for not wanting to throw their money away!” The director coming back on the rather surprising character of his fim : “I see especially Blonde as a dreamlike horror film, a bit like The Tenantby Roman Polanski (1976). It is also a kind of biopic, but it uses popular iconography and filters it through the psychological problems of the character. The events we all know about, like Marilyn’s dress being lifted by the air from the subway grate on the set of The Seven Year Itch (1955), are portrayed through his feeling, which upsets our initial perception of the image and makes it darker.”
Polemic biopic
The controversies did not take long to explode after the release of Blonde on Netflix. Even Ana de Armas, the main interpreter, has seen her legitimacy questioned by many fans of Marilyn Monroe. The actress could nevertheless count on her producer Brad Pitt and director Andrew Dominik to take her defense.
Blonde is the fortieth project of Plan B, Brad Pitt’s production company, which he created with Brad Grey and Jennifer Aniston in 2002. He is currently the sole owner.
12305 5th Helena Dr
This hacienda-style private residence is known to have been the final resting place of star Marilyn Monroe.
Located at the end of a dead end, this house built in 1929 consists of four bedrooms and three bathrooms. Expanded since the death of Marilyn Monroe, it also has a swimming pool, an orchard and has a guest house. The following message is inscribed at the front door: “cursum perficio”, for “I have completed my journey”. Marilyn Monroe bought this mansion in 1962 for $77,500. She died there only six months later following an overdose of barbiturates. The house later sold for $7.25 million in 2017.
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