#MarilynMonroe turns 100 today. And to this day, she remains the ultimate standard-bearer of Hollywood glamour.
Monroe died in 1962 (at the tragically premature age of 36) before the sexual revolution, but in her time, she helped usher in a revved-up sensuality onscreen.
The era she inaugurates lives on: A certain stripe of actress will inevitably be compared, first, to Monroe. The star has been the butt of too many mean jokes, the object of veneration and a muse for film and literary retellings that have elevated her into the realm of myth.
Monroe was pilloried in her moment too, but she was also allowed by Hollywood to test her talents in a manner that, decades later, actresses known for their physicality still struggle to do.
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SHREK (2001), directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, made Oscars history as the first-ever winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow, the film also received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for writers Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Joe Stillman and Roger S.H. Schulman.
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