She's confident with herself-that's why! She wasn't petty and jealous.

@Rosie Hayman yess I agree. Everyone always talks about what was wrong with her instead of why she was the way she was. She did her best to survive in a world that showed her no love, can anyone blame her ya know.

@@mindyengledow6860 totally agree. From personal experiences, girls are vicious when you have something they apparently don’t so I can imagine many women didn’t truly understand or associate themselves with Marilyn because of jealousy and intimidation.

@@yulduzibragim4459 That's true.

It's said that Jane Russell was one of the only women in Hollywood that was a friend to Marilyn. Ginger Rogers seemed to care about her, as did a few others but Jane was unequivocally kind to her and l always loved that about her.

Hello Julie, How are you doing?

@@Kelly-nm4kw fine, sir. How about you?

@@juliemcneely-kirwan9314 I’m doing well thanks for asking, It’s nice to hear from you where are you from?

Agreed! It is a stark contrast though when you look at how Jane talked about having her group of gfs at her Malibu beach house joking about their own problems in life and how Marilyn didnt have that kind of support system and was all alone at home when she died. Yes Jane, if only you and Marilyn kept in touch after GPB, maybe she would be at your beach house that day and we wld still see at least a few more decades of Marilyn on TV or even in this world.

Sadly some women these days are aggressive towards each other

Saturn Ivory Aged beautifully?! Can you not see all the Botox on her face? She does not even have much wrinkles.

I wouldn't pin my hopes on Botox being the end all be all to stop aging. It's not that miraculous. 😉

T A Botox was not around in 1991 that’s a facelift

They were good friends, not like now a days fake friends. They loved each other and had high respect and appriciation for one another. These behaviour is not seen or found today. Noticed how 50's women were all slim and in high fit form, and men were too all in a good shape ?! 😕 I think the secrets of their lives died with them.

@@ravenna9969Yes, Botox wasn't used for cosmetic treatment until the 21st century. I'd be very surprised if Jane's youthfulness was due to face lifts either as that just tightens the skin but cannot erase wrinkles Case in pt, Joan Rivers, Helen Mirren [yes, she's admitted to having at least 2 to Clive James]. Jane could just be genetically blessed with great skin.

I know😓

Maryline was THÉ DIMAND OF THÉ MOVIE NO BODY ELSE

@Elaine Male when you say the "chosen" do you mean the small hat brigade?

Beacouse she was unjustly eliminated,and at a very young age,they cut her off at the best time of her life.

Oof

Mike Not the same thing at all, ffs.

Kimono Dragon I mean. Technically it is. They were co workers briefly. 2 generations ago.

Kimono Dragon I’m gonna jump In here and say it’s absolutely not the same thing. The term ‘Coworkers’ is too vague, I wouldn’t be so in depth about a ‘coworker’ I worked with at McDonald’s, but they were taking dancing lessons and ACTING IN A MOVIE IS KIND OF A MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE lol way different

That's a great way to look at it!

That kind of media behavior is what drove Marilyn into the ground. It seems Jane has a kind spirit, that may be why she aged so well. No bitterness or meanness of spirit. God bless her.

That's an excellent point. Sadly Marilyn didn't seem to get the respect she deserved when alive but blessfully seems to have after death. A lot of people seemed to appreciate things about working with her though (kind of like britney spears. Many have loved working with her but she's been torn to shreds at the same time and had people in the industry hurt her to get ahead). In any case, Jane Russell was very loyal and sweet to her and I wish her and Marilyn had stayed friends. Jane Russell was also beautiful and very talented. R.I.P ♡

She's a woman she understood her as a fellow women she knew how hard the industry was

Jane Russell is a real pro, a wonderful person and a friend that you would love to have in your corner. She didn’t mince words she said it like it was. She didn’t say it behind your back she said it to your face. Marilyn had that in Jane about I think Marilyn was just too lost within her self. It’s a shame, and Hollywood does not do any favors for anyone

That was the Hollywood that that place Soo much emphasis on how women were treated

​@@emmad.176I wonder why they didn't because she Russell didn't hear about Marilyn's death till much later

"Blondle" with an L. Jane called her Blondle, not Blondie.

​​​@@neurodivergentpixi6736correct but op is referring to the part at 15:40 where you can hear Jane say Blondie instead of blondle!

i think she's prepared for such questions because she must have written about it in her book and knew this would be something people, readers and media were most curious about cause by the time monroe's fame probably had outgrown hers because of her untimely and mysterious death

I think the stars of that era were happier to do that than the ones of today would be. They didn't have such huge egos back then.

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They asking about marilyn monroe i don't think so

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She was class.

Danielle Langlois you make plenty of sense & your comment is a good one.

Marilyn didn't have a mental disorder she was just a sensitive person and people who aren't sensitive don't always understand.

I agree with you!!! ❤

nope she had a mental disorder @@ladylovesherlord

Marilyn will forever be young in our hearts and minds. We can't even imagine an elderly MM. Not a pretty thought.

Jane aged beautifully 😍

A Gemini, many Gémini women are like that 😊

Matt Schaffer I think Jane was smart enough to know that talking about Marilyn would be part of the territory. Jane was associated with many other iconic people that she would always be asked about: Howard Hughes, Clark Gable, Frank Sinatra and to a lesser extent Robert Mitchum and Bob Hope.

Matt Schaffer 😂

I would think so!!!!

Matt Schaffer She probably did but she was too much of a professional to say so..

Matt Schaffer Jane loved Marilyn and Marilyn loved Jane as well they would not mind asking quesrions about each other

Howard Hews immortalized her in the movie The Outlaw.

yeah, so beautiful. i love that gigantic chin, protruding brow ridge and twisted nose at 3:26

Calvin....Are you for reals??

@@escarlit Two men impersonating females. THE CREATOR BLESS

Jane never had plastic surgery of ANY kind during her film career and afterwards.

Pretty skin and hair color

Sound alit like Michael jackson..they say that about him all the time

Sounds like that industry sucks the life out of people.

If anything, it proves Hollywood and the gossip columns love a messy story. It’s likely MM was just what Jane Russell and others have seen with their own eyes and heard with their own ears. MM played up to the role of dumb blonde because it was what the world would accept.

@@444.nyokabi perhaps it also attracts vulnerable people who hope to have certain unfulfilled needs to be "seen" and "loved" met through their art.

she truly was beautiful

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Schann Stewart you're one of very few.

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I agree! My eyes were drawn to Jane! ..

@@Iceis_Phoenix No, YOU'RE one of the very few who thinks that so hush up, fool.

ME TOO!

@Julianna Ioannou EXACTLY! Traumatized. I believe her symptoms evolved into a Panic Disorder, hence her lateness on the set. Probably began drinking (and then using medications) to self- medicate her overwhelming anxiety. Sad.

So are a lot of people though but she needed to learn to cope and deal not just dope her up with more meds. A lot of people go through this and deal. I have been through some traumatic things in my life but when I learned to deal with stuff and just accept it or move on I was finally doing better and got off the meds. I mean sometimes it was still hard but I worked through it and without meds and I'm better for it. I do not think taking that stuff for years and years and years was good. What she needed was a good therapist or counselor that actually cared. I was the same like her I have no family but one family member that it was not good with at first so I had to learn how to deal. I agree with Jane if she had a good homebase and like long term good friends or if any of her marriges would have worked out and she could have made her own family I think she would have been happy but I heard she kept losing babies and she wanted to be a mother so bad and make a family. And then her marriages were not working out and getting divorced. I think she could not cope with losing babies either and I think that is one of the things she wanted the most and felt like she could not get for herself and give to her husband. She probably felt she could not make a family without a baby and I think that hurt her very much. I know they showed pictures of her coming out the hospital when they said she lost her baby and she just looked distract. I'm not sure she could have kids I don't think her body could do that some womens bodies can just not hold and have kids for some reasons and I heard she lost a lot of babies.

@Dαɾk Kíss No. You are not understanding it. As a traumatised person, she was searching for something or someone to provide security because she was never provided that. One (unwise) way humans look for attention, affection, validation, and love is through sex and service to others. That is very easily taken advantage of when traumatised in certain ways. She actually most likely had physical and mental damage that most people do not consider, not even those who have it. She was very young, and healing things such as this isn't as easy as a pill. Sometimes it can take years.

@@miac2382 What you are saying is correct. Unfortunately though not everyone finds the road to healing. There are people who depend on drugs to help them cope ane don't know what else to do. She never had love as a child not even as a baby plus she was abused. She was a lost soul. Maybe if she didn't die so young she would finally get the help she needed and heal but who knows..

Katherine Wilson yes i agree with you 100%. especially back then mental illnesses, therapists, and just anything to do with concerning someone’s emotions weren’t popular back then. people didn’t know much about mental disorders. they just assumed it was a phase or whatever. so it made everything much harder for people such as marilyn.

Only part of the interview with Jane is being shown here. I'm sure the talked about Jane too

I have heard that in interviews Jane stated plainly that at the time, she did not think Marilyn had killed herself. Also, that when Jane met Robert Kennedy later, he looked at her with hostility. I wish I could find those interviews if they are on youtube. Listening to Jane retell the same information to different interviewers repeatedly gets a bit tedious. She was gracious to put up with it. GPB The Movie just isn't all that interesting.

MM naivety was artificial as everything about Shortie.

I really think that since everyone let her down in her life as a child she was just used to not getting close to anyone or was afraid to get close to anyone that's why she was always alone and never had any real friends and her marriages never lasted cuz like she said in an interview she wasn't used to being happy.

Jane’s right about the importance of having family and friends

There was Ana Lower

@@yarixzamendoza6314 exactly.

I've read Marilyns memoirs, poetry and stories... I don't believe she killed herself. I don't believe she purposely overdosed either.

Yes, she was consistent about her. Not making up something. Good indicator of truthtelling.

@@adamgypo it's pretty widely believed now that her death was an accidental drug interaction and not intentional.

@@angelasmith6953 Kennedy. He for sure had a hand in it. She was taken out.

If Norma Jean had a normal stable childhood , Marilyn wouldn’t have been born .

Marilyn wasn't able to keep relationships due to her trauma, that is really sad.

Still is

Jane Russell is a man lmao

Patty Crabby it’s so painfully obvious!

Why say nasty crap?

@@smileandsaycheese44 It's only nasty to you because you've looked at a man with lust in your heart. You transphobic pal?

Gracious is best word to describe her.

This must be why I relate so much to her- though my lifestyle couldn't be more different, for sure.

GracieGirl7 agreed. Couldn't have said it any better.

I know🥺🥺🥺

It's unfortunate that she was always casted as the dumb, pretty blonde, because there was an actual intelligent human being underneath. It makes me think of other sexualized actresses, who were always perceived one way because of the roles they were given, without anyone taking the chance to discover who they really were. Rita Hayworth comes to mind.

@@Hana-ty7kt I agree ,there’s also Megan Fox ,she is a today’s world sex simbol,but she’s is very smart and calls herself a “nerd” she reads a lot of comics and books.She even stopped doing movies because all they asked her to do was “be sexy”.Really sad.

The interview was edited, so they probably asked her about those things, but we don’t see that here. This video is about Jane’s thoughts about Marilyn, as stated in the video description.

The name of the program is "Diva on Diva." That's why the interviewer isn't asking Jane about her career. She's supposed to give her personal insights/thoughts about a "Diva."

These are all different clips from different interviews

@@vl2663 Thanks for the hot tip, I wouldn't have known if you didn't tell me. Which is why I said "they" OMG!

@@cw5451 thanks for the hot tip, no one would have known without you pointing it out. WHAT a stupid reply. No one can have an opinion if it isn't yours? Get some fresh air!

Agreed. Sad.

Yeah someone honest and real

Yes

@T 2020 They were very "few" and Not around her that much. They had Busy Careers.

They both have the same face shape

Its for the Époque

+london von Exactly.

Wow I felt that. Myself and I think many young women do the same 🙁 sadly x

Women too in different ways. Her coaches and therapists.

Marilyn didn't have a family. She was put up for adoption when she was little and she was raped by her adoptive father. And her adoptive mother didn't believe her.

Noir Mamba thanks so much for being pedantic. what would we do without amateur celebrity historians like you?

So are a lot of people though but she needed to learn to cope and deal not just dope her up with more meds. A lot of people go through this and deal. I have been through some traumatic things in my life but when I learned to deal with stuff and just accept it or move on I was finally doing better and got off the meds. I mean sometimes it was still hard but I worked through it and without meds and I'm better for it. I do not think taking that stuff for years and years and years was good. What she needed was a good therapist or counselor that actually cared. I was the same like her I have no family but one family member that it was not good with at first so I had to learn how to deal. I agree with Jane if she had a good homebase and like long term good friends or if any of her marriges would have worked out and she could have made her own family I think she would have been happy but I heard she kept losing babies and she wanted to be a mother so bad and make a family. And then her marriages were not working out and getting divorced. I think she could not cope with losing babies either and I think that is one of the things she wanted the most and felt like she could not get for herself and give to her husband. She probably felt she could not make a family without a baby and I think that hurt her very much. I know they showed pictures of her coming out the hospital when they said she lost her baby and she just looked distract. I'm not sure she could have kids I don't think her body could do that some womens bodies can just not hold and have kids for some reasons and I heard she lost a lot of babies.

MM would pick up people along the way a bit. It can be persuasively argued that she was closer to Joe DiMaggio's SON, in a sort of big-sister way, than she was to Joe himself, in the last years. She talked to the son, not Joe, on the night of her death. And she was dearly fond of Arthur Miller's father. The father was her date, in fact, on that Presidential Fund Raiser (the happy birthday thing). She kept allies from the families of the men she divorced, LOL. Wasn't enough, sadly.

Yes I agree!

Remember when she wore blonde wig in the movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"? They looked so much alike!

if you listened to jane russell..she was telling you how she tried to get MM..to be part of her girl group.....because it was a healthy good thing...but MM...for whatever reason...never wanted that....and dont be so sure MM was taken advantage of....she was then and remains today...the most sensual woman ever to appear in films....

She did.

Well... she did it in the movie also. lol

It's sad. Marilyn got in with Pat and Peter Lawford towards the end. Pat being the Kennedy's sister. One wonders whether these people were good for Marilyn or trustworthy, but Marilyn was a loner and always moving on to new people instead of trusting in someone like Jane who would have been a good trustworthy friend to her.

i feel exactly the same way

Every single day your heart breaks for her? This is perhaps rude but that might need a psych doc's attention.

a girl is no one yeah, that sounds like someone with a very empty life and a very active imagination.

@@escarlit gth

Face lift

she looked like a man in a wig in the 80s

scarlit oh my god no she didn’t. Jealous.

Nikki Mouse yes, she did. why on earth would i be jealous of an old man-woman? simpleton

scarlit 😂😂🤣

Hello Katherine, How are you doing?

A real role model. Her own woman.

She was true- truly walking with the Lord-imperfectly (only way any of us can), but faithfully. This is what shows through whether some like this or not- very unashamed yet non-judgmental, not critical, or phony....and this is refreshing and how it should be.

Marilyn Monroe had multiple plastic surgeries

@@marrefalken7744 Of course, he was trying to hide the man.

THE CREATOR IS THE TRUTH super disrespectful and transphobic. They were both beautiful. Marilyn was beautiful before her surgeries too and it’s stupid to shame someone for doing what they like to their body.

THE CREATOR IS THE TRUTH What ? Is that a joke cause Marylin was a woman before surgery and always a women🤣 she was even married before she started doing movies and modeling. Her plastic surgery just slightly changed some features of her face, but she was really pretty without the surgery anyways.

Marilyn is the kind of girl you have an affair with. Jane is the kind you marry.

I agree fully now and I always said I was born way before my time bc I always felt I was better off in the 20'sor 30's to be born. And even soon but no later that when my momma Dukes rip was born in 1949. And I'd rather. Not be in this TECHNOLOGY life where everyone else revolves around it so so much like other ppl or ppl who may cant afford that luxury yet I never wanted to know any of it even being born in 1986 but I never felt I. Place in this life. I'd much rather be in life with these women and how things were but this time. No no no I'd rather work hard like these women instead of now. And I wish they would stop talking bad about marilynn monroe and maybe others.... look how her life her ended bc. Of who. She ran into and what happened to this beautiful woman who was in her hardest times so at that time never seen things another way or paid too. I'm sorry but I feel so very strong bc of the fact that how she passed was not right and so very sad and taken advantage of from other men whether she had a choice or not. And most time not.... and this was not apart of her career and off set other actresses.. and only the close ones truly maybe have known but knew and couldn't say shit bc of this business. And that they might take them out also.... she was a big victim in this business and it's sad that they didnt look out for her but left her to herself and take "the pain" was supposed to be able to be able to be fine. And after awhile esp with the JFK family members she was a hit and probably along with others who thought she all know she should have been alive alot longer than what she did. Breaks my heart😥😪😢😭🤧

prettylittlepsycho 1027 I have to admit I didn’t read quite all of your words, but I’m with you on the desire for some aspects of that time as opposed to now-but I emphasize some aspects. I’m guessing based on your comment that you are definitely not (racially) Black. Not a good time for us. But as far is the glamour, the essence of people in general from the poor to the rich-seems like everyone I want it to look nice and did look nice using whatever they had. Femininity was fine, and not looked down on-it definitely has its good points, that time. But Hollywood was a hell like a nightmare for black people. And I think about how people like Lena Horne, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, and others still stood there went out there did great work and look beautiful doing it when they couldn’t even go to the bathroom In some of the same places that they performed-in front of all white only audiences at that. I don’t think a lot of people like to acknowledge or even have a clue the depth and the very far-reaching effects of the psychological damage that did. Yes some people do take this true phenomenon for lack of a better term, and places in contacts where it is not immediately relevant or even not there in a specific given situation, and I think that’s what a lot of people respond negatively to. But the truth is this is very real and has a lot to do with a lot, shall I say. This is worth saying. But all of this to say I understand why someone would prefer that era-but I have to say only someone who isn’t black would/ might fully agree with you, friend. Cheerio.

God doesn't exist. I know this because I read it in a book.

Yes, she seems to be a lovely Christian woman. A rarity in Hollywood. Wonderful a group of them had Bible study and speakers together.

Jane: Hey Marilyn, wanna meet my imaginary friend? Marilyn: ....

And that’s the problem with this world they only care about looks! Still to this day we in 2022 everything is about how you look! People don’t love you or care about who you are as a person! That’s what I’m having a hard time with.

The woe of evey cekebrity😂 many fans don’t actully LOVE the person but the persona and that only ran so deep