Marilyn Monroe’s Final Hours – The Truth Uncovered

It’s been more than 60 years and the mystery behind Marilyn Monroe – born Norma Jeane Mortenson’s death is yet to be solved. Marilyn Monroe was an American actress who was popular for being Hollywood’s sex symbol, whose life as an actress overshadowed her life in reality.

Marilyn Monroe was born June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California, the U.S., she never knew her father, and she grew up in 12 foster homes while her birth mom was in the asylum. All Monroe has ever wanted was to have her own child. Her personal life was difficult to separate from her acting life. She has also had numerous love affairs.

Marilyn Monroe was found dead – or rather alive? (That’s still uncertain, this mystery is yet to be solved) in her house at Brentwood, Los Angeles on August 5, 1962. Monroe died at the age of 36 on what was said to be an overdose of sleeping pills (barbiturates), her death was ruled as a “probable suicide,” due to her history of drug use.

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Although it’s been alleged that her death was caused by her lover, there’s no evidence yet, to back this claim.

In the new documentary The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, now streaming on Netflix, the icon herself was heard saying, “How do you go about writing a life story? Because the true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things. It’s hard to know where to start if you don’t start with the truth.”

The film began with audio recordings from the research that journalist and author Anthony Summers began in 1982 when the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office started a threshold inquiry into Monroe’s death by barbiturate overdose, a precursor to deciding whether to open a full-blown investigation.

Anthony Summers interviewed a thousand people, including 650 on tape, two dozen of whom are heard from here.

Here’s what was uncovered about Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe – Life As An Actress

Marilyn Monroe wanted more than anything to be taken seriously as an actress, in her words she said, “If I am a star, the people made me a star… but I do want to be wonderful, you know?” she’s heard saying in an audio recording. At another time, she said, “What I’d like to accomplish, I would like to be a good actress, a true actress. An artist, with integrity.”

Among the dozens of old interview clips included in the Netflix documentary, her Gentlemen Prefer Blondes co-star Jane Russell told journalist Anthony Summers that they’d work all day and Monroe would meet with her acting coach at night. “She was very bright and she wanted to learn,” Russell said, “and was interested in everything to help her control her career.”

Marilyn Monroe’s – First, Second, And Third Marriage

Monroe’s first marriage was in 1942, she married a fellow worker in an aircraft factory, but they divorced soon after World War II. Monroe met New York Yankees baseball star Joe DiMaggio after he retired, they dated for more than a year before eloping at San Francisco City Hall on Jan. 14, 1954, the second marriage for each of them.

DiMaggio was said to be an extremely jealous lover who blew up on set the day they shot the iconic windblown-skirt moment for The Seven Year Itch in front of Manhattan’s Trans-Lux 52nd Street Theater, and he blew up about it in the lobby. Talking to Summers, the film’s hairdresser Gladys Whitten remembered Monroe coming to work the next day with bruises on her shoulders. “With a little makeup and everything, she went ahead and worked,” Whitten said.

Monroe filed for divorce that October, telling reporters at a news conference with her lawyer, “Our marriage wasn’t a happy one, it ended in nine months, unfortunately. I don’t know what else to say.”

Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956. And he saw… potential in her.

“Arthur Miller thought she was really intelligent and had a brain that was never cultivated. And that’s where he courted her,” Monroe’s friend Arthur James posited to Summers.

In London while Monroe was directed by Laurence Olivier in 1957’s The Prince and the Showgirl, she saw some of Miller’s notes lying around and was devastated to read some very disparaging words about “how disappointed” he was by his wife and that he had thought she was “some kind of angel,” but he was wrong.

Meanwhile, she was telling people she couldn’t wait to wrap that film (for which she was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Foreign Actress) so that she could go home and have a baby. Monroe and Miller divorced in January 1961.

Marilyn Monroe’s Childhood Trauma

Monroe was sexually abused at some point during her childhood when she lived in more than 10 foster homes and spent time in an orphanage while her mother was in and out of psychiatric hospitals. She never knew her father (an upcoming French documentary purports to have new information about that mystery), and that absence haunted her throughout her life.

Peggy Feury her actress friend told Summers, “She knew people who were psychotic from [being molested] and she felt that at least she’d survived that,” Monroe once said, as quoted by Summers in the Netflix film, “‘I knew it was wrong, but to tell you the truth I think I was more curious than anything else. Nobody ever told me about sex and frankly I never did think it was all that important.'”

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Marilyn Monroe’s – Child Loss Journey

Monroe’s wish/greatest desire was always to have a child of her own, she had a miscarriage in September 1956 and lost an ectopic pregnancy in 1957, Monroe got pregnant again during the making of Some Like It Hot in 1958. And though “she was slightly discombobulated at all times,” as director Billy Wilder put it to Summers, it’s one of her best, most enduring films.

“I had no problem with Monroe,” Wilder emphasized. “Monroe had problems with Monroe. She had problems with herself.”

She miscarried again that December after they finished filming.

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