{"id":1646,"date":"2004-09-02T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2015-05-14T19:37:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T23:37:45","slug":"billy-wilder-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=1646","title":{"rendered":"Billy Wilder: “It’s very difficult to talk seriously about [Marilyn] Monroe.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Excerpt from Conversations with Wilder<\/a>\"\":<\/p>\n

It’s very difficult to talk seriously about Monroe, because she was so glitzy, you know. She escaped the seriousness somehow; she changed the subject. Except that she was very tough to work with. But what you had, by hook or crook, once you saw it on the screen, it was just amazing. Amazing, the radiation that came out. And she was, believe it or not, an excellent dialogue actress. She knew where the laugh was. She knew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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