Marilyn Monroe

Netflix's new documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, looks into the life and death of Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.

Anthony Summers, an investigative journalist and author who spent years looking into Marilyn's death in the 1980s, narrates the new film. "She died in the ambulance," he explained. [Ralph] told me he was in the ambulance."

All the times Netflix's The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, which traces the movie star's lows leading up to her shocking death in 1962, ...

"Based on the evidence available to us, it appears that her death could have been suicide or come as a result of an accidental drug overdose," then-District Attorney John Van de Kamp said at a press conference. at the TV: It's usually the false things.

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, which relies on tapes from Anthony Summers's investigation into the late icon, premieres on Netflix ...

“Tony discovered that she was vulnerable to falling prey to men who did not have her best interests at heart—men who saw something in Marilyn and her strength that they wanted to diminish,” says Cooper. “I see that all around me in many relationships with women of all ages. To make the audio more visually compelling for her documentary, Cooper filmed recreations of the conversations—with actors in period costume reenacting the calls with Summers. The documentary offers an unparalleled glimpse at an investigation of this scale, as well as fragmented recollections about Monroe directly from the people who knew her. The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, premiering Wednesday on Netflix, uses them to construct another portrait of Monroe. While The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes won’t turn up any new reporting, it is a fascinating listen for true-crime fans or anyone interested in celebrity investigations. And I really found that to be true here.”

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes features never-before-heard interviews with those close to the star who call into question much of what ...

"At the beginning of the process, when I went to L.A., I visited her grave," she says. She was said to have talked one of the brothers about the amorality of nuclear weapons. "And suggests that the circumstances of her dying were covered up." I adore her." I hope I represent you in a way that you would've wanted to be represented in 2022, and in fact, during your life.'" She was a multidimensional, wonderful, amazing human being," says the director. "I was like, 'I won't, of course. She worked incredibly hard. It's an investigation where everything we thought we knew is not really correct." Was there a cover-up? "If you then say to me, 'Why were those circumstances covered up?' I would say that what the evidence suggests is that it was covered up because of her connection with the Kennedy brothers." Given Monroe's ties to the White House, the Kennedys, the mob and others, questions swirled — and continue to swirl — about her final days.

How did Marilyn Monroe die and where was Bobby Kennedy when Marilyn Monroe died? The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe on Netflix investigates.

Fred Otash, a private detective who claimed he had bugged Peter Lawford’s house and phones in order to dig up dirt on the Kennedys, said that Robert Kennedy called Monroe that night and that the two had a vicious argument. Bobby Kennedy called her the night of her death from Lawford’s house. … But she had come to a point where she felt like she was being used. Nothing in The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe questions how Monroe died, but Summer does spend copious time questioning when she died. Marilyn Monroe died of a drug overdose of barbiturates at her Los Angeles home on August 4, 1962. Despite the somewhat misleading trailer and opening sequence, the film does not give any credence to conspiracy theories that Monroe was murdered, rather than overdosed on barbiturates in what was ruled a probable suicide.

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Missing from that reading is the raw skill she had as an actor: her loopy guile in Some Like It Hot, the dangerous allure she brought to the underrated noir Niagara, or the piercing loneliness of her work in The Misfits, her final film. Or that much of her life seemed to be an endless parade of sexual abuse, exploitation and bullying from the men she put so much romantic faith in. But like so many Netflix true crime sagas, the film’s central figure becomes little more than a body, one that we’re invited to know intimately and gynecologically; a prop to ponder about. She is, after all, the prototype of all kinds of modern media phenomena, from the mystery and allure of the “dead blonde” in popular entertainment (see Twin Peaks or any of the television formed in its image), to the hyperfixation with young women struggling in the spotlight. “Missing White Woman Syndrome”, or a kind of discrimination in which missing persons or victims of crime are granted comparatively larger news coverage when they’re young, white, female and pretty, feels somewhat indebted to her, too. Nothing gets confirmed, making the whole thing a bit aimless, but there are allusions to Monroe’s affairs with both President John F Kennedy and his brother Robert – which may have put her in fatal government crosshairs – as well as claims she was being investigated and monitored by the FBI due to her leftist politics.

Marilyn Monroe died of a drug overdose on August 4, 1962, in her Los Angeles home. Her death was ruled a probable suicide by officials. Nothing in Summer's book ...

So many saw her as a prize to win, rather than a talent to behold. Marilyn Monroe died of a drug overdose on August 4, 1962, in her Los Angeles home. It does not come to any new conclusions beyond what was already covered in his book, but it’s undeniably fascinated to hear the archived taped interviews about the movie star—even if the accompanying “reenactments,” featuring actors lip-syncing to the audio, are silly.

All the times Netflix's The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, which traces the movie star's lows leading up to her shocking death in 1962, ...

"Based on the evidence available to us, it appears that her death could have been suicide or come as a result of an accidental drug overdose," then-District Attorney John Van de Kamp said at a press conference. at the TV: It's usually the false things.

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Netflix documentary 'The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes' uncovers new details about Monroe's death, as well as her relationships with JFK and ...

Instead, Summers corroborates with several members of the ambulance team that Marilyn had in reality been taken to the hospital by ambulance late that evening still alive, and died en route to the hospital. In a new Netflix documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, Monroe's biographer, Anthony Summers, presents a new timeline of events of the night Monroe died, deduced from hundreds of interviews conducted for an updated version of his 1985 biography, Goddess. Featuring new audio interviews with members of Dr. Greenson’s family, the new documentary addresses rumors and inconsistencies surrounding Monroe's death. Monroe's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, had awakened in the middle of the night to find a light on in Marilyn’s room and the door locked.

For the past 60 years, there's been one story about Marilyn Monroe's death. Here's what to know about the new Netflix documentary that explores her death.

Cyril Wecht, a prominent forensic pathologist, told People that this suggests that “she might have been injected” with the drugs. The official word is that Marilyn died of an overdose. Writer John Sherlock also says in the doc that Greenson told him Marilyn was alive at home and died on the way to the hospital. The changing story, he says, “suggests that the circumstances of her dying were covered up.” "Bobby Kennedy called her the night of her death from [his sister's] house. [Greenson] told me he was in the ambulance.” Summers says in the documentary that it’s possible that “the Kennedys said, ‘Sh*t, she can make public that we’ve been discussing nuclear matters’….[and] thought, ‘We’ve got to stop all this. “No, she wasn’t [dead at home],” ambulance company owner Walter Schaefer says in the documentary. Murray had seen a light go on in Marilyn's room around 3:25 a.m., but found the door locked. Marilyn was pronounced dead, but police weren’t called until 4:20 a.m., about an hour after Murray had initially called Greenson. (Doctors said they needed permission from Marilyn’s movie studio before alerting the authorities.) Warning: The following contains references to suicide. The woman seemed to have it all: fame, beauty, money, power.

While Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous names in Hollywood, many are unaware that it wasn't the actress and model's birth name. Why did she change ...

She was sexually abused for the first time at the age of eight, and later abused at the age of 11 by a man named Mr. Kimmel. As of now, all we know is that she changed her name before entering the Hollywood scene. She was going by the name Marilyn instead of Norma Jean for about 10 years before it was actually official. According to Netflix Life, it took her about a decade to legally change her name. The life and career of Marilyn Monroe are constantly being scrutinized decades after her stardom, since so many details about the icon are shrouded in mystery. Why did she change it?

All of the Marilyns we know are represented here, in film clips, news footage, and whispery voice-over recordings, in which the actress candidly shares her own ...

The Mystery of Marilyn includes so many interviews—many with people who were deeply pained by what had happened to her—that it may seem unfair to single out a few of the movie’s more crass figures. What’s more, hearing this now 40-year-old testimony from a relic of old Hollywood serves as a reminder of how the business used to work—and in that context, that it took until 2017 for Harvey Weinstein to fall seems all the more remarkable. And yet hearing an old coot salivating about how Marilyn used to “put out” comes off as yet another instance of how, even in 2022, we just can’t let Marilyn alone. This three-way friendship points directly to the shady circumstances surrounding Marilyn’s death—there’s no real news there, but even today, the degree of the brothers’ involvement with the star, and how it may have influenced or even caused her death, is still a subject of speculation. Those taped interviews, never available to the public, have been dramatized and shaped into the documentary The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, directed by Emma Cooper and featuring Summers as a guide. As the case was being reopened, a British newspaper suggested that Irish-born journalist Anthony Summers might want to launch his own investigation, which resulted in 650 tape-recorded interviews and eventually led to a 1985 book, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, which presented new and credible evidence about the events surrounding Marilyn’s death.

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They eventually stop spending time together in 1956, and the true details of their relationship still remain a mystery to this day. Two years later, they tied the knot in San Francisco, but their relationship wasn’t built to last. They relocated to New York City from Hollywood and got married in 1956. He did reference the rumored affair in an autobiography published in 1960 titled My Father, Charlie Chaplin. There are rumors that Marilyn had an affair with Charlie Chaplin Jr. in 1947. She made a name for herself as the blonde bombshell who starred in movies such as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot.

A series of conversations recorded by journalist Anthony Summers reveal more about the actor's tragic life.

As Summers described in the documentary, Miller and Monroe's relationship was essentially a "Svengali situation." "It was something about how disappointed he was in me. Monroe's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, also saw Monroe as "a woman who was deprived of childhood." I don't know what else to say," she told reporters at a news conference with her lawyer. DiMaggio, who was retired from Major League Baseball when he met Monroe, soon grew possessive of his wife and struggled with a marriage in which he felt overshadowed by Monroe's fame. "Yeah, I was never used to being happy," Monroe is heard saying in an old clip. When asked about her childhood, Monroe would frequently refer to herself as a "waif" rather than an orphan. "In this business, in the golden years every casting director, every studio used to have a black book, you know what I mean?" "You see, the business has changed since then . . . it used to be sex," he continued. Her cause of death was immediately ruled as an overdose, but many were quick to suggest there was more to it than that and speculated that she perhaps died of suicide or was killed by a known acquaintance. "So, every girl, you know, I'm talking about kids that were breaking in, like Marilyn Monroe, you know, when they get started, all the casting directors, they would write in their black book who could be laid." According to Rosen, Monroe was a known name in multiple black books.

Marilyn Monroe created a legacy in Hollywood with her death a heartbreaking mystery decades on. Netflix's The Unheard Tapes digs deep but what does it leave ...

Tragically, like a lot of Hollywood at the time, Marilyn had learned to depend on medication in order to deal with the pressures of her life. While JFK has no doubt been cemented as the more famous brother, private investigator Fred Otash told Spada that Bobby had ended things with Marilyn on the day of her death in August 1962. In fact, the extent of Marilyn’s relationships with Bobby and JFK varies from biographer to biographer. To the point that outside forces felt the need to step in and remove her from the equation? Instead, it focuses on recorded interviews with those who knew her, and their thoughts on her overdose, which continues to spark conspiracy theories to this day. She was smart, savvy and aware of the world.

Emma Cooper had never seen a Marilyn Monroe film when she was approached to make a documentary about her.

“As a modern, middle-aged woman, I was surprised at how I could relate to her story,” she said. So I think she would have fared better today than she did then, and she probably would have fared better than a lot of other people today.” One of the film’s major themes is the inherent tension between who Marilyn Monroe was and who the world wanted her to be. “My obsession was to try and show her in a more multifaceted, more multidimensional way than I had ever known her,” Cooper said. “And so I felt like I could really connect with the arc of her life. Cooper’s film exists somewhere on the spectrum between reverent documentary and pulpy true-crime flick, luring viewers in with a promise to reopen the case of Monroe’s death, but ultimately spending more time examining who she was as a person than debating who (if anyone) killed her.

For decades, it has been reported that Monroe was found dead in her bed by her psychiatrist, Ralph Greenson, who broke in through her bedroom window after ...

Her most successful films include The Seven Year Itch (1955) Bus Stop (1956) and Some Like It Hot (1959). [Greenson] told me he was in the ambulance.” “She died in the ambulance,” he said.

The Gist: Sex, drugs, politics, Hollywood, conspiracy theories – Marilyn Monroe's life and the aftermath of her death is surely one of the juiciest and most ...

Any Monroe bio, by necessity of truth, will have all the titillating fodder that perks our interest, and she was the type of personality that draws you in with a soupcon of pheromones, but hooks you with her deep, melancholy soulfulness. Our Call: As a big-boom expose, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes whiffs. One of Greenson’s daughters said Monroe coyly referred to one of her lovers as “the General,” namely, Robert Kennedy, then the Attorney General of the United States. We hear archival audio in which Monroe talks about how she loved Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, and would spend hours and hours at the movie theater when she was a kid. The Gist: Sex, drugs, politics, Hollywood, conspiracy theories – Marilyn Monroe’s life and the aftermath of her death is surely one of the juiciest and most tragic celeb stories ever. If you’ll pardon the phrase, the title of Netflix documentary The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes makes it sound like it’s dropping bombshells about the life of Hollywood’s greatest sex symbol.

For decades, it has been reported that Monroe was found dead in her bed by her psychiatrist, Ralph Greenson, who broke in through her bedroom window after ...

Her most successful films include The Seven Year Itch (1955) Bus Stop (1956) and Some Like It Hot (1959). [Greenson] told me he was in the ambulance.” “She died in the ambulance,” he said.

Netflix's highly anticipated documentary The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes is now streaming. Even 60 years after her death, ...

Once Monroe was in the spotlight, she was never out of it again. She was briefly suspended in 1954 for refusing to work a film project, but came back to star in The Seven Year Itch, which became one of the biggest box office successes of her career. Later on, the studio did give her a new contract which gave her more control and money. That was thanks to her role leading the film noir Niagara, which heavily relied on her sex appeal. He thought she had the right look for a model, leading her to the Blue Book Model Agency where she became a successful pin up model. The model and top-billed actress was a star that shone bright.

A new documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, sheds light on conspiracy theories, Kennedy connections, and the final moments of an ...

I want other people to come away from the film feeling they’ve gotten to know her and know the things that happened at the end of her life and why. That’s the only thing that’s important to me, is that we’ve got the truth, and I believe we have. The making of the film really mirrored the way Tony wrote the book; it took years, and I think that people respond to that methodology. I tried to tell her that I’m standing here as a woman who’s older than she was when she died, and it’s the 2020s and I’m hoping to give her the right voice. I always knew that what Tony had evidenced in his book—the timeline we’re able to put together—was a revelation to me, and I thought it would be to other people. Time and time again, when I was trying to untangle her final days, the truth always ended up being somewhere in the middle.