"The Things She Left Behind" talks about Marilyn's belongings that have been shielded from the public until now. Mark Anderson is the man of the article as the photographer who has spent the last 2 years documenting Marilyn's disputed collection and is now letting the withheld information of her life leak out.
And I have to say - it's about damn time! Why the hell shouldn't everyone know the lifestyle Marilyn lived? I agree that maybe back then the public might not have been ready for it, BUT so many people honor her and see her as a true artist (me being one of them) that it seems almost silly not to let people know more about her. Marilyn kept all her life's most precious belongings in two file cabinets (see above), which both ended up with her manager Inez Melson when she died. When Melson died they were passed on and so on and so on and kept away until they were opened up to others now. Millington Conroy is the man who is allowing Anderson to photograph the items in the article, as they were handed down to him from his mother Ruth Conroy - Melson's sister in law who inherited the cabinets when Melson died. Now, I do have to admit that I don't like the idea of details of Marilyn's life being hidden from me, since I am obviously the one who should know all of them, but I hate the idea of her belongings being used to make a profit! Conroy talks about how he sold a rosary of Marilyn's for $50,000 and it just disgusted me. Yes, that is a lot of money but c'mon - a ROSARY?
Although her belongings play the lead role in this article, I really think that the fact that Marilyn is still making covers of magazines almost 50 years after she died is truly amazing. Not that she doesn't deserve it! This really is proof that Marilyn's saga is far from over. To me, Marilyn Monroe is the epitome of hollywood glamour, and I can only hope that 50 years from now she will still be recognized as just that - the way she is recognized today.
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