“Success came to me in a rush. It surprised my employers much more than it did me. Even when I had played only bit parts in a few films, all the movie magazines and newspapers started printing my picture and giving me write-ups. I used to tell lies in my interviews-chiefly about my mother and father. I’d say she was dead and he was somewhere in Europe. I’d lied because I was ashamed to have the world know my mother was in a mental institution – and that I had been born ‘out of wedlock’ and never heard my illegal father’s voice” – Marilyn Monroe
