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Not sure. Probably they dreamed of becoming Babe Ruth or another sport star, maybe?

• bryanrasmussen 4y ago
  Babe Ruth would have been another generation, they might have dreamed of being Joe DiMaggio (who Monroe was married to for a bit) but he was also a bit old when she was a star so I would guess they were more interested in being Mickey Mantle or Hank Aaron.
  • Pamar 4y ago
    Yup, sorry for the wrong reference. What I meant is that I believe (might be wrong) that earlier generations would not be so taken with the idea of becoming showbiz stars. Actors/actresses, singers etc. would be famous, well regarded and so on, but I think they were seen more like a sort of "aristocracy" while, at least for boys, the aspirational models were more in the field of sports.
    • bryanrasmussen 4y ago
      Until very recently actors, singers were seen as being of a low social class, hence the scene in My Favorite Year https://youtu.be/F7m5VwOpShQ?t=174 https://youtu.be/F7m5VwOpShQ?t=174 when one upper class fellow says to another "I think Allan Swann is beneath us" and the other replies "Of course he's beneath us, he's an actor"