Marilyn Monroe animal lover
Marilyn Monroe really loved the animals. She liked them because animals were beautiful and inocent for her. She enjoyed playing with them and showed interest in rescuing stray dogs.
She had a lot of animals during her life. She had dogs like Tippy, Muggsy, Hugo or Maf. Some people say that Maf was a gift to Marilyn fom Frank Sinatra, but acording to Donald Spoto, Maf was a gift from Pat Newcomb and Marilyn named it Maf because it reminded her of Frank Sinatra.
Apart from dogs Marilyn also had cats like Mitsou and Sugar Finney. Marilyn had two parakeets, Butch and Bobo, a gift from Sidney Guilaroff and a horse Elbony wich were in her house of Roxbury during her marriage with Arthur Miller.
Marilyn did not just loved animals she was very sensitive about animal abuse. Marilyn couldn´t stand it if any living creature were hurt. Her dog Tippy was her pet when she was a child in the house of her foster parents the Bolenders, but a neighbor hated the dog, so he sooted and killed Tippy. That was one of the most horrible speriences in Marilyn´s life. This episode is not much talked about in Marilyn's life, but it was an event that traumatized her and one of the worst moments of her childhood. After that moment she would never stand animal abuse. When she was marry with James Dougherty, one day Jim returned home with a dead rabbit, she was unable to bear and almost became hysterical.
Arthur Miller noticed her love to animals and her hate to animal abuse, so he incorporated it as a main characteristic of Roslyn's character in The Misfits. In The Misfits, Marilyn’s character, Roslyn, is an animal lover who strongly opposes cruelty. She confronts Gay when he wants to kill a rabbit that has eaten his lettuce. Later in the film, when the cowboys are rounding up wild mustangs, Roslyn intervenes and convinces them to change their minds and release the horses.
The author Lois Banner, a notoriously poor historian, prefers to ideologize rather than produce a serious biography of Marilyn Monroe. Banner claims that if had Marilyn lived longer, she might have become a vegetarian. This imposes present-day concepts onto the past, which is misleading. Veganism was not common in the 1950s and 1960s, yet it is highly likely that Marilyn was aware of it: some of the authors she frequently read, such as Leo Tolstoy and Percy Bysshe Shelley, were vegetarians, and one of her most admired actresses, Greta Garbo, was also a vegetarian. Knowing this, Marilyn probably understood what veganism entailed, and if she continued eating meat, it was by choice. Loving animals does not require being vegan.
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