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Marilyn Monroe, Infamous: Garnet Character

Marilyn Monroe (1926 to 1962) was an American film actress, born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles. She rose to fame in the early 1950s and, in 1955, founded her own production company to gain more control over her films and her career.

Cost
8 crystals
Type
Character · Celebrity
Power / Health
4 / 6
Color
Garnet (Rebels, Pirates & War)
Rarity
Legendary (Legacy)
Set
Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
Keywords
Protest

Protest

On play: rest all enemy characters.

Platinum-haired icon whose combination of vulnerability and glamour created the modern celebrity blueprint.

Real history

The real history

Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles. She spent much of her childhood in foster homes and, for a time, in the Los Angeles Orphans' Home. During World War II she worked at a munitions plant, and around 1944 she began modeling. In August 1946 she signed her first contract with Twentieth Century-Fox and took the stage name Marilyn Monroe.

After small roles in films like The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve in 1950, she became a star. Her films included Niagara and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1953, and The Seven Year Itch in 1955. In 1954 she traveled to Korea to perform for American troops.

Monroe wanted more say in her work. In 1955 she moved to New York to study at the Actors Studio and, with the photographer Milton Greene, founded Marilyn Monroe Productions. After a long dispute with Fox, she won a new contract that let her choose her own projects, directors and cinematographers. Library of Congress records show her signing in at the Actors Studio on November 19, 1955.

Bus Stop in 1956 was a turning point for her as an actress, and the company's projects included The Prince and the Showgirl in 1957. She starred in Some Like It Hot in 1959, and The Misfits, released in 1961, was her last completed film. Her personal library held more than 450 books, including works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Freud.

Sources

  1. Marilyn Monroe Photos: Her Life, Career and Lasting Legacy, History.com
  2. Paul Newman, Marilyn Monroe, Harry Belafonte: A Star-Studded Day at the Actors Studio, Library of Congress
  3. Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
  4. Why Marilyn Monroe Persists, Indiana University

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Game lore (invented)

In the game's story

In the game's invented story, Marilyn Monroe arrives in the middle of a bell-festival in Bindwell, and the whole street stops. She smiles, waves and politely asks where the library is. She spends long quiet hours in the Archive's reading rooms and becomes friends with Emily Dickinson, and she sings on Saturdays at Barnum's tent.

In Lost Chapters' frame story, history's heroes fall into an invented world called Marginalia. That story is fiction; the history on this page is real.

How the card plays

Marilyn Monroe, Infamous costs 8 crystals and is a 4/6 Garnet Celebrity. She is a Legendary, so she counts as a Legacy character. She has Protest, which means your rival cannot choose her as the target of a charge. When she enters play, rest all enemy characters.

She is expensive, so treat her as a finishing turn. Resting the entire enemy field leaves you free to push damage, so bring other attackers or cheap Swift characters to play alongside her. The Flag The Flag gives your characters +1/+1, Betsy Ross, American Dream Betsy Ross, American Dream gives your other characters +1/+0, and Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Rider has Swift, so he can hit the turn he arrives. Keep her alive afterward: Protest makes her hard to pick off with a charge.

  • Playable in decks led by Edward Teach "Blackbeard", and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Garnet.
  • In the Blackbeard starter deck (1 copy). Deck code: LC2-Aj4BPwFAAUEBQgFDAUQCRQFGAkcBSAFJAkoBSwFMAU0BTgFPAlACUQFSAVMCVAFVAVYBVwFYAVkBWgFbAVwBXQJeAW9C
  • A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.

Questions about Marilyn Monroe

Did Marilyn Monroe have her own production company?

Yes. In 1955 she and photographer Milton Greene founded Marilyn Monroe Productions, which gave her more creative control. Its projects included The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).

Card art

The standard version of Marilyn Monroe, Infamous. The Full Art above is a rare version that can appear in packs.

Marilyn Monroe, Infamous card art from Lost Chapters (Garnet, Character)

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