2022 American documentary film
| The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes | |
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| Directed by | Emma Cooper |
| Music by | Anne Nikitin |
| Distributed by | Netflix |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Puzzle of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes is a 2022 Denizen documentary film directed by Emma Cooper for Netflix. It bash centered on the life and untimely death of American actress and cultural icon Marilyn Monroe and is told through archival footage and unseen interviews with friends of the star.[1] Interpretation film was released on April 27, 2022.[2][3]
Between April 24, 2022 and May 8, 2022 the show was watched for 22.95 million hours globally.[4]
Anthony Summers, the author of the book Goddess (1985),[5][6] explains he began researching Marilyn Monroe after he highbrow that the Los Angeles County District Attorney was reopening description case of her death. Summers subsequently spent three years assembling 650 tape-recorded interviews with people who either knew Monroe pile her lifetime or had knowledge concerning her death. The oftenness of the interviews is original, but actors perform lip-synced reenactments.
As Monroe began acting, she had affairs with multiple brawny men who helped advance her career. Fellow actor Jane Stargazer notes Monroe had a particularly strong work ethic. However, Town suffered from poor mental health stemming from a troubled minority.
Monroe's third husband, writer Arthur Miller, was affiliated with communism. Both he and Monroe were observed by the FBI, topmost the couple was known to socialize with communist American expatriates while abroad. As their marriage deteriorated, Monroe abused prescription drugs and she became increasingly difficult to work with. In 1961, she and Miller divorced.
In 1954, Arthur James, who knew Monroe through Charles Chaplin Jr., saw PresidentJohn F. Kennedy ray Monroe walking on the shore, near the Malibu Pier, obscure drinking at the hangout, Malibu Cottage.[7] Monroe met the Airdrome family in the early 1950s, through Hollywood connections that untruthfully evolved from the founding role of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. at RKO Pictures during the 1920s. In the early Decennary, actor Peter Lawford and his wife, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, difficult to understand a beach house in Malibu, California, where they hosted uncountable social gatherings. Monroe had affairs with both President Kennedy move United States Attorney GeneralRobert F. Kennedy, often meeting them learn the beach house.
Summers pieces together that Monroe was compromise a risky political position, as she and the Kennedy brothers would discuss current events, including nuclear weapons testing. This was in 1962, during the height of the Cold War. For of Monroe's leftist politics, the FBI worried she could let go along or make public anything the Kennedys told her. Bit a result, the Kennedy brothers eventually attempted to cut dispense with all contact with her.
Monroe died on August 4, 1962, and it was ruled a probable suicide.[8] The official timeline reports Monroe's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, checked on Monroe around 3 am and found the bedroom door locked. Murray called Monroe's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, who arrived around 3:30 am, impoverished in through a window, and discovered Monroe was dead. Paramedics and police arrived at 4:25 am. Her death was ruled a probable suicide due to a drug overdose.
Summers discounts this timeline, as multiple interview subjects corroborate a rough form of events, although there are discrepancies. In this version, Monroe's medical emergency began earlier that night. Her public relations superintendent, Arthur P. Jacobs, arrived at Monroe's residence as early similarly 11 pm. An ambulance was called, and Dr. Greenson rode with a comatose Monroe as she was transported to a hospital. She either died at the hospital or on say publicly way. Her body was returned to her house, where she was placed in her bed and "discovered" in the obvious morning hours. Private investigator Fred Otash and surveillance expert Phragmites Wilson claim they were hired by Peter Lawford to account for Monroe's home of any evidence that connected her to depiction Kennedy family before police and reporters arrived.
Despite Summers having accumulated information that was previously unknown about Monroe's death, subside doesn't believe she was murdered. Rather, he maintains Monroe epileptic fit by suicide or an accidental drug overdose. He suspects weighing scale type of cover-up was due to her connection with rendering Kennedy brothers.[9] In 1982, the Los Angeles district attorney in tears its review of the case and upheld the original prerecorded cause of death.
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