Rear Window (1954)

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"The whole city packed into automobiles and all weekend, every weekend, ended up at Gatsby's. And I mean everyone: from every walk of life, from every corner of New York City, this kaleidoscopic carnival spilled through Gatsby's door. A caravansary of billionaire play-boy publishers, and their blonde nurses. Heiresses comparing inheritances on Gatsby's beach. My boss, Walter Chase, losing money at the roulette tables. Gossip columnists alongside gangsters and governors exchanging telephone numbers. Film stars, Broadway directors, morality protectors, high school defectors and Ewing Klipspringer, dubious descendant of Beethoven!"

“Vengeance won’t change the past. mine or anyone’s else’s. I have to become more. People need hope. To know someone’s out there for them. The city’s angry, scarred, like me. Our scars can destroy us. Even after the physical wounds have healed. But if we survive them. They can transform us. They can give us the power. To endure. The strength to fight.

MARILYN MONROE as Lorelei Lee