The Shocking Miss Pilgrim Analysis

Register to read the introduction… This film being The Shocking Miss Pilgrim which was released in 1947. After that, Marilyn played many small and unimportant roles. When Marilyn's contract came up for renewal in August 1947, the studio decided they did not want to sign her. It was said that her relationship with seventy-year-old Joseph Schenck, co-founder of T.C.F. had something to do with the studio's resigning Marilyn. Schenck also got her an interview with Columbia Pictures and resulted in a six- month contract for Ladies of the Chorus. On the set of this movie, Marilyn met musical director Fred Karger and was said to have had a relationship with him. Columbia also got Monroe an acting coach, Natasha Lytess. …show more content…
At one point in 1949, she was so short of money she could pay neither her car payment or her rent. She then posed nude in order to earn fifty bucks and used the money to retrieve her car. Soon after that Marilyn began doing her small roles in many movies. Then she got cast in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle. She played the "niece " of a crooked lawyer and began to get a lot of fan mail and although her name was originally omitted from the credits, her name was then inserted. She then starred in All about Eve, her second good film that won six Oscars. Then her agent Johnny Hyde had fallen in love with her. They made an odd couple because he was thirty years older and suffered from a diseased heart. His wife divorced him, citing Marilyn. When the divorce finalized, Hyde asked Marilyn to marry him. She refused, she had told him that she did care for him, but was not in love with