Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) (PROSE: Stop, Thief!) was an American celebrity in the mid 20th century.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 1952, she met the Eleventh Doctor at a Hollywood party, and he "accidentally" accepted a marriage proposal from her. He tried to avoid it, but ended up leaving the party with her to get married, apparently making her the Doctor's spouse. Marilyn got the Doctor's phone number and later attempted to call him, though he denied the legitimacy of the chapel. (TV: A Christmas Carol [+]Loading...["A Christmas Carol (TV story)"]) Despite this, River Song later mentioned her among the other spouses of the Doctor. (TV: The Husbands of River Song [+]Loading...["The Husbands of River Song (TV story)"])
In Hollywood in 1960, after waking up from taking barbiturates, she noticed Auteur at the end of her bed. He who advised her to stop making her film Let's Make Love, which he said did not exist. She ignored his pleas and went to the studio, beginning filming despite believing the film could be a "career-killer". However, she found that the film's title had become Pasta in Paris, a commercial for the "noodle product" Chicken Auteur Soup, directed by the Noodle Man. She witnessed a stagehand consume the contents of a can of the bone "soup", causing him to lose all of his teeth and his carotid artery to burst, and the Noodle Man eating another stagehand whole. She promptly stormed off the set as a result. (PROSE: Auteur License [+]Loading...["Auteur License (short story)"])
After Monroe was resurrected in the City of the Saved, she married Henry VIII. (PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War [+]Loading...["A Hundred Words from a Civil War (short story)"])
References[[edit] | [edit source]]
Once, she and the Doctor had dinner. The Doctor later showed Clara Oswald a picture of this on the TARDIS scanner. (PROSE: Normality)
The DJ of the Tranquil Repose has a poster of her on the wall made by artist Andy Warhol. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks)
When Space Pilot 692 7896 was going to die in a solo spacecraft after a total systems failure, she thought of Marilyn Monroe. Dying that way was not the glorious exit that she had expected, but she had an in-flight recorder on board of the spacecraft. She thought that she would be immortalised on camera like Monroe, James Dean and River Phoenix. (HOMEVID: Scout Ship)
Navigator Lucien Ryne believed that Marilyn Monroe was a 20th century political figure who'd been assassinated with her husband, an Earth president. Based on images in holobooks, he thought she was the most beautiful woman that had ever lived, so he programmed BABE to look like her. (PROSE: Deadfall)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
In Good Night, the Doctor calls a farewell to an unseen River Song and asks her to "tell Marilyn she'll have to use the biplane".
In TV: Death in Heaven, Missy sang "Happy Birthday" to the Twelfth Doctor the same way Marilyn Monroe famously sang it to US President John F. Kennedy.
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