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On May 19, 1962, at a large event organized by the Democratic Party to raise funds, Marilyn Monroe sings  'Happy Birthday' to John Fitzgerald Kennedy at Madison Square Garden in New York. Her dress, so tight that it was torn slightly during the evening, and which she wore without underwear, was defined by some as the "illusion of diamond embroidered nudity." In 2016 the dress was auctioned for 4.5 million dollars, transforming  MM. in the most profitable corpse in movie history.

Three great cinema icons, Gloria Swanson, Bette Davis and Marilyn Monroe, give themselves to the myth as a search and transcendence, as a sacrifice for the spectator's need for consumption, and as mask an their own time and diluted faces.

Marilyn's self disappears. The need for a mask tears like her suit of that night. Her face is already empty. The public contemplates the myth created while eating crispy potatoes and mourns her death before taking a burger in the corner franchise. Even though, Marilyn still sweetly whispers her 'Happy Birthday' and struggles to dress herself with gestures (hundreds) that float free, at the service of men (millions) since the beginning of time.

The performer himself, must surrender to the viewer, in a metalinguistic circle that is a search for the gesture, a mask comedy and repeated condemnation.
 

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