FRANK AND MARILYN
By Manuel Muñoz
Frank and Marilyn share a luxurious stay at the Cal-Neva hotel complex, between the border of Nevada and California. The Voice tries to cheer up the actress, who is somewhat sad.
“Why bother? I’m not going to be here long,” Marilyn told him.
“What are you talking about?” he asked.
“I’ll be leaving very soon,” she replied sadly, “But don’t worry, Frankie. I’ll come see you… in your dreams.
A week later, Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home.
Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe had a close relationship, about which not as much has been written as other aspects of the short, intense and dramatic life of the woman who left us on this day, in 1962.
It was a solid relationship that according to many could have ended in a wedding; It certainly went far beyond the compassion Frank felt for the tormented Marilyn; they comforted each other when their marriages ended in divorce; They maintained passionate intimate relationships in the late 1950s; but they also had common tastes and interests, from the arts to civil rights. And both possessed an insatiable appetite for knowledge.
Marilyn suffered a bitter childhood, marked by the absence of her father and the mental illness of her mother. She grew up in orphanages and in adoptive families, with dreams of her becoming a beloved movie star. Her beauty was what gave her all the love and acceptance she needed, and that’s why she based her life and her career on making people desire her. She was an irresistible mix of provocation and innocence, pain and beauty to which not even Frank Sinatra himself was invulnerable.
Frank fell in love with Marilyn but was never committed to her, because he was unable to let another woman desecrate the sacred void that Ava Gardner left in her heart. For her part, Marilyn did not love Frank; She needed him… and she also continued thinking about her ex-husband, the athlete Joe DiMaggio, despite having had frequent and torrid relationships with John Fitzgerald Kennedy. What made the relationship between the two most difficult was that they burned in the same room of hell; Frank strongly insisted to Marilyn that she be emotionally stronger and not give in to her self-destructive nature; He did it because he himself had tried so hard to self-destruct in a similar way that he didn’t want to be reminded of it.
In 1962, 20th Century Fox studios offered Marilyn to shoot a film with Frank. At that time Monroe was especially vulnerable and Sinatra was especially attentive to her well-being, putting her under her protection.
But Marilyn’s life was a chaos of emotional pain and complicated relationships that ended abruptly at her Los Angeles home just 54 years ago. Frank Sinatra’s voice sounded on her record player.
A partner and friend of Frank insists that the singer seriously considered marrying Marilyn, to get people to leave her alone so she could rebuild herself. But Marilyn was a sensitive, vulnerable spirit who would have frayed if her marriage to Frank hadn’t worked out.
Frank was left with an eternal wound by what Marilyn’s life and death were like.
But in our minds and our hearts they remain together and happy, even if it is for sharing their mutual unhappiness… and the wonderful artistic legacy of the most iconic blonde in cinema is in her millions of fans who recreate her style and manners.
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