Marilyn: The Movie Star Who Changed the World TV - Diamonds Are Forever 1971 - Star Trek: The Next Generation TV - Raymond Chandler - Madonna - William Shakespeare - Dolly Parton - Paris Hilton - Marilyn Monroe - Sharon Stone - Saul Bellow - Arena: Blondes TV -
Marilyn Monroe was the golden girl of Hollywood’s golden age. Star of over 30 films, classics like The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot. She was cast as the dumb blonde over and over. In this programme we reveal that behind the stereotype was a witty intelligent trailblazer who stood up for racial and gender equality, single-handedly took on the big guns, and won. Marilyn: The Movie Star Who Changed the World, Channel 5 2024
Weren’t you a blonde when I came in? … Oh, providing the collars and cuffs match. Diamonds are Forever 1971 starring Sean Connery & Jill St John & Charles Gray & Lana Wood & Jimmy Dean & Bruce Cabot & Bernard Lee & Putter Smith & Bruce Glover & Norman Curton & Demond Llewelyn & Louis Maxwell, director Guy Hamilton, Bond with blonde
Blondes and jazz seldom go together. Star Trek: The Next Generation s1e15: 11001001, Riker in holosuite
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely
Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can’t really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation. Madonna, cited Rolling Stone 23rd March 1989
She never yet was foolish that was fair,
For even her folly helped her to an heir. William Shakespeare, Othello II i 138-139
I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb ... and I also know that I’m not blonde. Dolly Parton
There’s nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I’m that icon. Paris Hilton
I’m very intelligent. I’m capable of doing everything put to me. I’ve launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I’m living proof blondes are not stupid. Paris Hilton
I like to feel blonde all over. Marilyn Monroe
We’ve got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in their cheeks, and little Chicklets for teeth. Are they really prettier? Sharon Stone
She was what we used to call a suicide blonde – dyed by her own hand. Saul Bellow
On the night of June 29th 1967 Jayne Mansfield set out by car to New Orleans … ‘The three adults in the front sea were killed instantly; Ms Mansfield was decapitated.’ Arena: Blondes, news report, BBC 1999
‘I began to not like what I saw. And I told her that. Really this wasn’t what I’d bargained for.’ ibid. ex-husband
‘She was an immediately Broadway hit. A sensation.’ ibid. historian
Jayne and Mickey get married January 13th 1958. ibid.