Why Women Hate Sydney Sweeney (But Love Marilyn Monroe) - April Vevea - #58
April VeVea is a Hollywood historian and Marilyn Monroe scholar who has researched the star for nearly two decades. She is finishing a PhD in screen studies at Oklahoma State University and runs the Constructed Glamour Project, where she writes cultural criticism, film history, and beauty history.
She is the author of Marilyn Monroe: A Day in the Life, a timeline biography built from primary sources, and Puffblicity, an appreciation of Jayne Mansfield, and she contributed a chapter to the 2026 centenary anthology Encounters with Marilyn Monroe. This conversation started with her Substack…
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