Michelle Morgan

And actually, quite a few of the parts she played, although they were advertised as being dumb blondes, they were actually quite wily and funny.

and sneaky in some ways.

And so there were characters.

It wasn't who she was at all.

And I think it says more for everybody else than it does about Marilyn.

Yeah, I mean, you know, it was just a performance.

It was something that she was putting on.

The same as any other singer who goes on stage.

You know, Robbie Williams puts on a performance when he's on stage.

That's a completely different person on stage to who he is in real life.

You know, she was an actress, she was a singer, she was a performer and an entertainer.

And in real life, she was very different.

Mm hmm.

Yeah, I mean, she wasn't an orphan, but she was raised that way.

She had a mother who had problems, emotional, mental problems, and she had an absent father.

So she was raised in foster homes and an orphanage.

She was also sort of part of an arranged marriage when she was 16 because she didn't want to go back into the orphanage again.

So, yeah, all of those things stayed with her during her life.

You know, there was a lot of trauma in her childhood and it wasn't very secure and at times it wasn't very safe.

So all of those things played a part in who she became, just as, you know, with everybody else.