Dinesen was fascinated by Monroe's prettiness, vitality, and innocence: they reminded her, she said, of a lion cub. The old and the young woman danced together (though not, as legend relates, on the table).
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Friends, Associates
Edith Sitwell
By 1919 ES
was also friendly with Arnold Bennett
and his wife Marguerite
. Wyndham Lewis
became a great friend, did many drawings of her, and demonstrated a sexual interest in her as well, which...
Family and Intimate relationships
Iris Tree
IT
married American painter and avant-garde photographer Curtis Moffat
.
Photographer Cecil Beaton
suggested in his obituary of VT
that a Prime Minister's appearance at her wedding symbolized a cultural change in attitudes toward actresses: they lost their final stigma and were recognized as persons...