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00:02There, glittering on the screen, I can see my town in its party dress, and see again, shown so vividly
00:09across the horizon.
00:12Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty and talent dazzled the world.
00:19You mix everything about Marilyn Monroe together like a cocktail. Her physical beauty, her wit, her talent for acting.
00:31Yet from her earliest days in Hollywood, to the heights of international stardom, she moved in circles dominated by powerful
00:41and sometimes ruthless men.
00:46She was pulled from pillar to post by all of them. She hated being in that position.
00:55Men whose influence reached from studio lots, to the corridors of power, including gangsters from the world of organized crime.
01:09On the surface, she seemed to have such a zest for life.
01:13As Marilyn's fame grew.
01:15Her international appeal took her from command appearances to the other side of the world.
01:20These connections became ever more dangerous.
01:26These were people that Marilyn will have at some point or another come into contact with.
01:30Some speculate slept with.
01:33She entered into affairs with influential figures in Hollywood and Washington.
01:40Some with reported links to the underworld.
01:42She was surrounded by wolves.
01:45She needed a protector.
01:48As she reached her mid-30s, Marilyn's world was more perilous than ever.
01:54The greatest box office favorites in motion pictures.
01:57And on the horizon, danger loomed.
02:18In July 1962, Marilyn Monroe sat down with a reporter from Life Magazine to reflect on her career.
02:27One of the most glamorous actresses in Hollywood, Marilyn's life was marked by remarkable highs and a string of brilliant
02:34films that showcased her extraordinary talent and effortless comic touch.
02:40Yet her fortunes were now faltering.
02:43Her personal life had unraveled after failed marriages to baseball star Joe DiMaggio and playwright Arthur Miller.
02:52Addicted to prescription drugs, she had been fired and then rehired on her latest film.
02:58Yet she spoke openly about the setbacks and struggles she had faced.
03:04What she didn't mention were the powerful men said to be circling her.
03:09From crime boss Sam Giancana to President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert.
03:17Nor did she speak of Frank Sinatra, the mob-linked entertainer who had been both lover and confidant, who was
03:24about to take her away on a glamorous weekend with his friend, the English actor Peter Lawford.
03:43Marilyn was in a very dark place because of all these things that were going on in her life.
03:49So her friends Peter and Pat Lawford took her to the Kalamiva Lodge.
03:56Maybe a weekend away would be good for her.
04:03It was a very glamorous place.
04:05There were lots of little cabins.
04:08There was a sort of ballroom where you could listen to shows.
04:12And there was also, most importantly, a place where you could gamble.
04:18When Sinatra brings Marilyn to this Lake Tahoe ranch,
04:22he is ostensibly with the desire to shield her.
04:27But he is kind of bringing her into the hornet's nest.
04:33Alongside its celebrity guests, the Kal Neva Lodge is allegedly also a haunt for shadowy men from the world of
04:40organized crime.
04:47Sinatra connected as he is to Vegas, both as an entertainer and in terms of the nightclub underworld,
04:53is good friends with Sam Giancana.
04:55And they co-own Lake Tahoe Ranch together.
05:00Sam Giancana is one of the kind of major figures, I think, of 20th century organized crime.
05:06He was one of the main people who ran Hollywood.
05:10As a gangster, Sam Giancana would have a lot of trouble owning a casino.
05:17So Frank fronted for him.
05:21It is a place where people can congregate who are perhaps up to no good.
05:28The mobsters are there.
05:30Sam Giancana is there.
05:33The stories surrounding that weekend are horrific.
05:38Drinking too much.
05:40Taking too many drugs.
05:42Walking around the swimming pool in a disheveled state wearing nothing but a robe.
05:49She apparently goes to sleep at night scared that she's going to be attacked.
05:56They had underground tunnels so people could go from one cabin to another without anyone seeing them.
06:04She unfortunately got very inebriated and had to be taken back to her room.
06:12There's a story of she breaks down at the cocktail table and she's in tears.
06:20She's embarrassing them.
06:22That's witness, that's photograph.
06:26The man who was supposed to develop the photographs said he had a conversation with Sinatra.
06:31They looked at these photos and Sinatra and the photographer said we need to destroy these.
06:38So the photographs don't exist.
06:41Reports later emerge that Marilyn's ex-husband Joe DiMaggio has learned of Marilyn's trip and has followed her to the
06:48Cal Neva Lodge.
06:53This visitor to the lodge said he watched her for a while and she was looking up and there was
06:58Joe DiMaggio looking back at her.
07:01She needed a protector and Joe DiMaggio offered that.
07:06He tries to rescue her and he's banned from arriving at the hotel.
07:12It's quite hard to work out which stories are true and which ones are not true.
07:18Whatever really happened that weekend, Marilyn reportedly flew home from the Cal Neva Lodge utterly distraught.
07:27The pilot of the plane said that when the Lawfords and Marilyn got on the plane, she was slurring her
07:34words.
07:35She was very, very awkward. He didn't know what happened but it was very sad to see.
07:42The sum total of it is that she comes back and she lands in Los Angeles looking absolutely terrible.
07:48She's barefoot, distressed, disheveled.
07:53She's clearly had something really terrible happen to her.
07:57She comes back a completely different and utterly broken person.
08:10Emotionally shattered, Marilyn retreated to a house she had recently purchased in Los Angeles.
08:16A sanctuary she had been encouraged to create by her psychiatrist.
08:22Dr. Ralph Greenson is Marilyn Monroe's shrink.
08:28She apparently has some sort of codependent relationship with him.
08:33Dr. Greenson suggested that she put down roots, which is one of the reasons why she bought a modest house
08:39in Brentwood not far from him.
08:42It was the first place she ever owned.
08:46She was fixing up the house because that had a feeling of permanence for her.
08:52She sees Greenson almost every day.
08:57He also works with this doctor called Dr. Hyman Engelberg.
09:00They are prescribing her huge amounts of drugs.
09:04Greenson also has this special injection which he injects Marilyn with,
09:09which must have some sort of speed in it, because she stays up for hours and is high as a
09:14kite on it.
09:16I don't think that that was a good doctor-patient relationship.
09:22I'll quote her.
09:25If I'm generally anything, I'm generally miserable.
09:28That's a direct quote of Marilyn Monroe.
09:32It's troublesome to think of her as having her demons, and she did have her demons.
09:46To be continued...
09:49To be continued...
09:53To be continued...
10:09One of the most famous stars in Hollywood history is dead at 36.
10:16Marilyn Monroe was found dead in bed under circumstances that were in tragic contrast to her glamorous career as a
10:23comic talent.
10:37When Marilyn Monroe dies in 1962, she's only 36 years old.
10:44This is someone that everyone who went to movies thought would be making movies for many more decades.
10:52So when her death is announced, it isn't just a national story, it's a global story.
10:59By all accounts, she was home that day.
11:04She was taking several substances, as was kind of the norm for her.
11:09She loved to have long phone conversations, so she often was calling people, and then she made several phone calls
11:15that day, talking to various people in her life.
11:17She had her hairdresser around, one of her publicists was around, her doctor, who she was very close with and
11:23was perhaps quite an unethical person in terms of what he prescribed her.
11:28And she apparently was thinking a lot about the Kennedys and being kind of estranged from them and the fact
11:35that it was troubling her.
11:38She, according to her housekeeper, goes to bed at about 8 p.m.
11:43It's the last time she's seen alive.
11:46The housekeeper sees the light on it at 3 a.m., goes to the door, the door is locked.
11:51She calls this personal doctor who comes in.
11:54He can see through the window that something's not right.
11:58One of them breaks the window, and they find Marilyn lying naked, holding the receiver of a telephone,
12:06apparently having died from an overdose of sleeping pills.
12:13The coroner rules it as a barbiturate overdose, either suicide or accidental.
12:24Immediately, there are conspiracy theories surrounding this death.
12:29None of it totally stacks up.
12:35An ambulance driver said that she actually made it into an ambulance and was alive,
12:40but then passed away either right before she got to the hospital or at the hospital.
12:44And due to various powers that be, was then returned to her home to look as though she died peacefully
12:49there.
12:51The ambulance driver also later said that he was paid to say that.
12:55So there are so many conflicting stories coming out that it's quite hard to know what the exact version of
13:00events was.
13:03In order to take an overdose of barbiturates, you would need water to drink the pills down with.
13:11There is no glass of water beside her bed.
13:16There is also a discrepancy between the telephone call to the doctors and the telephone call eventually to the police.
13:30And in that phone call, the doctors declare that Marilyn Monroe has committed suicide,
13:41which is not really their call to make.
13:44After the LAPD arrive, Eunice Murray, Marilyn's housekeeper, calls her son-in-law to come and fix the window.
13:55So he fixes the window at 5.25 in the morning,
13:59which seems a very odd thing to do, to have a handyman come and fix a window pane when this
14:04is actually a crime scene.
14:06The coroner was a young man who had only just started in the job.
14:07Her body appears to be moved.
14:09They say that she is in what's known as a soldier's position with her feet together.
14:15They've rolled the body over, so the crime scene has already been messed around with.
14:21And then the level of incompetency appears to continue.
14:28The coroner was a young man who had only just started in the job.
14:33He wasn't the most experienced coroner they had.
14:37They threw away her vital organs without having them properly tested.
14:48The very next day, the phone records go missing from the exchange,
14:53which is either incompetency or it's a cover-up.
14:57You can see where the conspiracy theories begin.
15:09Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's greatest star, is dead at the age of 36.
15:16Soon after, in 1963, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
15:21Around the world, disbelief was the first reaction.
15:25A moment in history that still provokes conspiracy theories,
15:28thanks to his family's dealings with organized crime.
15:35So, unfortunately, JFK was not much longer lived than Marilyn herself.
15:40The following year, he would be shot dead and assassinated in Dallas.
15:45So, there's tragedy upon tragedy here.
15:49And John John celebrates his third birthday with a soldier's farewell to his father.
15:57I think a lot of the fascination about their relationship is fueled by the fact that they both died so
16:03young and so close together.
16:06His brother, Bobby Kennedy, of course, would also be assassinated in 1968 in Los Angeles.
16:13The mob, if they didn't pull the trigger, had some very strong influence on who did pull the trigger.
16:21They murdered both Bobby Kennedy and JFK.
16:26During their lifetimes, the affair between Marilyn and John F. Kennedy was hidden from the public,
16:32although rumors swirled amongst Hollywood insiders.
16:38There was always talk about her involvement with the Kennedys during her lifetime.
16:45At Hollywood cocktail parties, it was the talk of everyone.
16:48It was on everyone's lips.
16:50There were blind items in the newspaper, not naming names.
16:55One of them said, Marilyn Monroe is involved with someone with a very big name, even bigger than Joe DiMaggio
17:03in his heyday.
17:04So, don't write her off as over yet.
17:08That was, like, right at the time that she died, the week that she died.
17:11That was a blind item in a column.
17:13So, it was being talked about.
17:16The assassinations of the Kennedy brothers ignite a wave of conspiracy theories, many of them involving Marilyn,
17:23including author Norman Mailer's claim that she was murdered by the CIA and FBI for getting too close to Robert
17:30Kennedy.
17:31It's a claim Mailer himself has since discredited.
17:35Over time, countless other theories have emerged about how and why she really died.
17:40Although a 1982 inquest confirms suicide as the cause of death,
17:46journalists continue to probe into the events surrounding her final hours.
18:11In the 1980s, an Irish author and journalist called Anthony Summers writes a book called Goddess,
18:16and it is a collection of a series of exhaustive interviews that he's done,
18:21a research that he's done with people in and around the constellation of Marilyn's life and work and romance
18:28in the lead-up to her death, trying to figure out what exactly happened that day.
18:33Tony Summers, it's easy, isn't it, after 23 years when people are not around to answer back,
18:37to slur their names by innuendo?
18:40I haven't slurred anybody's name by innuendo.
18:42I set out to do a biography of Marilyn Monroe's life.
18:45It was, in a sense, perhaps the best example to date of the power of rumor in our time.
18:50It raises all kinds of questions.
18:53Did Marilyn commit suicide?
18:57Was she confused and she inadvertently took too many sleeping pills?
19:05Or did her doctors change the story of what happened about her death?
19:12Was an ambulance called after she was deceased?
19:16If that was the case, it was against California law that an ambulance cannot transport a deceased person.
19:27Was she taken to the hospital still alive, although comatose,
19:32and died at the hospital and then returned to her home to make it appear that she had died at
19:38home?
19:39The big question that's being asked about Marilyn's death is was she murdered?
19:43Anthony Summers' book explores theories and myths surrounding Marilyn's life and death,
19:48including those that implicate John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert.
19:52There was never until now evidence that she had actually had affairs with either John Kennedy or Robert Kennedy.
19:59Now there are.
20:00It was Summers' belief, ultimately, that there was a Kennedy cleanup job on the house
20:06to remove any association that she had with them,
20:09so that there were certain things about her death that seemed mysterious,
20:14things that disappeared,
20:16but not because there was actual foul play.
20:21Given that it had enough in it to corroborate certain doubts around her story,
20:25it did sort of send people spinning.
20:28As a result of the book, the chief of police has been forced to release
20:33the partial remnants of the police files from 1962,
20:37showing Marilyn's calls to Kennedy's Justice Department.
20:40Marilyn had been ditched by JFK and Bobby Kennedy.
20:47So she is threatening to go to the newspapers.
20:52There's a story that's already leaked.
20:56Journalists write a piece of gossip in the San Francisco Chronicle
21:00about how Bobby Kennedy is being comforted by a star of some description.
21:07So the story is beginning to leak,
21:09and Marilyn is really upset about being treated like, in quotes, a piece of meat.
21:14And both of them have had their fun,
21:17and they've decided that she is too much of a liability,
21:21so they've both ditched her.
21:24So she's threatening to have a press conference on the Monday morning.
21:29And she's unhappy enough to actually possibly go ahead with this.
21:33The stakes could not have really been higher for the brothers at this point.
21:37Bobby Kennedy was voted Father of the Year the year before.
21:42He's Catholic, he's married, he's got seven children, I think, at this point.
21:47This is not in his interest for Marilyn to tell the world about their affair.
21:54The story is that he left the Democrat conference in San Francisco,
22:00a rise by helicopter to Peter Lawford's house.
22:04Peter Lawford drives to Fifth Helena Drive,
22:06and there is supposedly this massive row between Bobby and Marilyn.
22:14Bobby Kennedy is looking for this thing which is called the Little Red Book.
22:18Supposedly, every time she's had dinner with Bobby Kennedy,
22:22Marilyn has written down the conversations that she'd had with him.
22:26They are supposed to have secrets in them.
22:29The nuclear testing in the desert, the Bay of Pigs,
22:32all these hugely important state secrets.
22:37Not for any malicious reason, it was just to prove to him that she wasn't a dumb,
22:43fluffy blonde that everyone always thought she was.
22:47Supposed on the tapes, there is the sound of coat hangers as he's slapping through her wardrobe,
22:53trying to find this book, shouting at her,
22:55and going, where is it, where is it, where is it, where is it?
22:57And she's screaming her back, I have no idea what you're talking about, leave me alone.
23:03That is where the idea that Bobby Kennedy was involved in the murder of Marilyn Monroe comes from.
23:12The alleged confrontation between Marilyn and Robert F. Kennedy is said to be caught on surveillance tape by a private
23:20investigator named Fred Otash,
23:22who has bugged Marilyn's house, possibly on behalf of the mob.
23:31One of the sources many people use is a fellow named Fred Otash,
23:36who some authors argue is one of the premier guys in espionage,
23:42tapping phones, bugging rooms, and reporting on celebrities and reporting on politicians.
23:49Fred Otash said that, at various points, he had worked wiretapping and trailing people for the FBI, CIA, the mafia.
24:02The dilemma with the reliability or unreliability of Otash is that there are no transcripts of the tapes he said
24:11he did.
24:12There are no recordings.
24:14He's almost ubiquitous in these stories, but how reliable is Otash?
24:21He could be fabricating much or all of what he said.
24:27Fred Otash continued to change his story throughout his life, up until he died in 1992.
24:37Despite various sources linking Robert F. Kennedy to Marilyn on the day of her death,
24:42the Kennedy family has long denied such claims.
24:47Bobby Kennedy's connection with Marlon, there's one major question.
24:53He denied being in Los Angeles on the day of her death
24:59to the day he died.
25:02His family have denied that he was there on the day of her death.
25:06The Los Angeles Police Department denied that he was there on the day of her death.
25:10Peter Loffer said he was, and he drove him there, and he certainly was, with Marlon on the day of
25:15her death.
25:16And Daryl Gates, the chief of police, when he wrote his autobiography,
25:19in black and white, it's there in the book, we all knew Bobby Kennedy was there on the day of
25:24the death.
25:25We just didn't like to help him.
25:28So he was there.
25:29Why did he deny it?
25:30Why did they deny it?
25:33The banshees of good taste will tell you that's all because he would have been smeared and besmirched
25:38if it had been made clear that he was there.
25:42So it was just, it wasn't a cover-up, it was protection.
25:45But if you're covering something up, it's that protection.
25:49Where's the transparency?
25:51No transparency leads to speculation.
25:54And speculation leads to conspiracy.
25:57Conspiracy leads to 60 years of conjecture.
26:00Conjecture.
26:05Over the years, interest in Marilyn Monroe has grown,
26:09and conspiracies around her death continue to swirl,
26:13many of them involving organized crime.
26:16Anthony Summers' book, Goddess, revealed many of Marilyn's previously unknown connections
26:21to major mob figures across her life,
26:25including gangsters Johnny Roselli,
26:28Sam Giancana,
26:30and a curious episode with the notorious Mickey Cohen.
26:40Mickey Cohen is perhaps the most vicious gangster that stalks the streets of L.A.
26:47He had his fingers in a lot of different pieces of the pie,
26:50particularly sex work and brothels.
26:54And through those, he often collected information
26:58on the famous clients of those places and then could use it as blackmail.
27:05He also started a newspaper called Hollywood Nightlife.
27:09His partner in that was Frank Sinatra's manager.
27:13This newspaper magazine was really a device for blackmailing famous movie stars,
27:20letting the world know who was gay, who was a lesbian, who was having an affair.
27:26People dreaded what stories might appear about them.
27:31Every Hollywood producer read Hollywood Nightlife to see who was being scandalized.
27:57I think he tried to blackmailed Marilyn Monroe, but I don't think he succeeded in doing it.
28:03Any investigation into Marilyn's life reveals a cast of shadowy figures orbiting her world.
28:10Men with power, secrets, and agendas of their own.
28:14Together, they fuel the endless white noise of conspiracy that still surrounds her name.
28:27Another of the fantastic conspiracy theories about Marilyn Monroe's death
28:32is that she was the object of a hit that was organized by Sam Giancana,
28:40a man who utterly hated the Kennedys.
28:44The mafia were instrumental in helping to secure the vote for Bobby's brother.
28:51There was a sense that the Kennedys had kind of betrayed them
28:54by enlisting their help and then turning around and attacking them.
28:59It is my firm belief that new laws are needed in the common battle against the rackets.
29:04According to Sam Giancana's grandson, who wrote a book called Double Cross,
29:11what he expected is that the Kennedy administration would be not too rigorous in going after organized crime.
29:20John Kennedy appoints his younger brother to be attorney general
29:24who had been going after Sam Giancana for years on a Senate committee.
29:29Is it because you got the $500?
29:32No, sir.
29:33Giancana saw that as a double cross.
29:36And another layer to that is that Giancana, we now know, worked with the CIA
29:43in this extraordinary effort with Johnny Rosselli to figure out a way to assassinate Fidel Castro.
29:52He was involved with the Kennedys in an operation called Operation Mongoose.
29:59The Kennedys were using the mob to be hitmen, in effect, and they never succeeded.
30:08Giancana, he had done what had been asked of him.
30:11And now they're paying me back by having Robert Kennedy Jr.
30:15and his Justice Department to come after me.
30:18So the theory is that he sent four hitmen to Marilyn Monroe's house and they murdered her.
30:26There was always a book written by one of his relatives saying that Sam had sent a hit squad
30:33into Marlon's home in Brentwood to wipe her out.
30:39The theories are always clever because, you know, it wasn't like, didn't go with machine guns,
30:44but they went in with a suppository, an amputile suppository, which then, you know, poisoned or killed her,
30:49but of course vanished and no needle marks.
30:53The autopsy was done by the deputy coroner, a guy called Thomas Noguchi,
30:56which seems a very odd thing to have had the deputy doing somebody so high profile to start off with.
31:03He spends a long time trying to find an injection in her.
31:06He does a very sort of close look at her skin, finds nothing.
31:11The hope for those who promote that theory is that it will implicate the Kennedy family
31:17and the death of this icon.
31:20And those who most hope for that were people in organized crime.
31:24If they could somehow soil the Kennedy reputation,
31:28it would be just punishment for the Kennedy family.
31:34Adding even more fuel to the conspiracy theories
31:37is the fact that several of the powerful and dangerous men connected to Marlon
31:42ultimately died in grisly circumstances.
31:49Johnny Roselli, true to Hollywood type,
31:52was found in a oil drum floating in the Biscayne Bay.
31:59He was somebody who knew about the assassination of John F. Kennedy
32:03and before he could testify to the Senate Assassinations Committee,
32:08he was lured onto a boat off the coast of Florida.
32:12He suffered from emphysema,
32:14so the guy who killed him just held his nose and covered his mouth
32:17until Johnny Roselli was asphyxiated.
32:21They wanted to put his body into an oil drum
32:24and it wouldn't fit, so they had to cut off his legs.
32:27And put his trunk and his legs in separately into an oil drum.
32:31Two fishermen found it and notified the Coast Guard.
32:37An autopsy was done and they identified the body as that of Johnny Roselli.
32:43After Giancana was called to testify in front of a Senate committee,
32:48he was assassinated in the basement kitchen of his home in Chicago.
32:57Sam Giancana being shot I think five times under the chin and once directly in the mouth
33:04had to do with perhaps the CIA trying to keep them quiet
33:07because they'd been summoned to appear before a special Senate committee.
33:15Stories of Marilyn's connections to the highest offices in politics
33:18and to some of the most violent figures in organized crime
33:22only deepened the confusion.
33:25Which leaves us asking,
33:27what truly happened to Marilyn Monroe?
33:34She died of a barbiturate overdose, that is certainly true.
33:38There was enough barbiturates in her bloodstream
33:41to have killed I think about seven or eight people.
33:45She had a very high tolerance to barbiturates
33:47because she'd been taking them for a very long time.
33:51Yet she had no pill casings in her stomach during the autopsy.
33:59She was also very keen on enemas during this period.
34:04Marilyn used to have enemas all the time.
34:07An enema to make herself thin enough to get into a dress.
34:11She often would have two enemas a day
34:13in the morning and in the evening
34:15to keep her stomach entirely flat.
34:18There is a theory that Eunice Murray, who is her housekeeper,
34:23had given Marilyn a barbiturate enema that evening
34:26in order to help her go to sleep.
34:31Weirdly, Eunice Murray was leaving the next day.
34:33She'd been dismissed,
34:34so this was her last night working for Marilyn.
34:40Eunice Murray is always pictured in the background washing sheets,
34:44which seems a very odd thing to be doing
34:46if your boss has just died.
34:50With so many rumors and theories swirling,
34:54rivalries have emerged between those who believe
34:56her life was ended by dangerous gangsters
34:58and those who believe the truth is far less sinister.
35:11I always say that Marilyn Monroe is like politics and religion.
35:15There's people on both sides, and they believe so strongly,
35:19and they hate you if you disagree with them.
35:22That's how passionately they feel about it.
35:25So many people who have changed their story over the years
35:28about what happened and the order of events
35:31that I think it is genuinely lost to time.
35:35And a lot of the records and apparent recordings
35:38and FBI files are also lost to time,
35:43which in and of itself is a cause for people to become suspicious
35:46and treat that as a part of the conspiracy.
35:49That's the thing about conspiracy theory.
35:51They are self-generating and self-sustaining,
35:53that everything can become a part of the conspiracy,
35:55when in fact a lot of stuff is people changing their stories
35:58because they got older, their memory was bad,
36:01it was traumatic, and they don't remember it exactly the same way.
36:04I mean, there are a lot of reasons why
36:07you can have different versions of a story,
36:08not all of them are sinister.
36:13I think that on that night, she was in a moment of despair.
36:17She took a lot of pills.
36:21And when she felt herself starting to go under,
36:24she changed her mind.
36:28And she started dialing friends to get help.
36:33And some of her friends got a message
36:35from what they said was a fuzzy-voiced woman.
36:38Obviously, it was Marilyn Monroe.
36:40While she was trying to get help,
36:42she went under and drifted off to paradise.
36:50I do feel that if she had been saved that night,
36:56sadly, she probably would have done it a month later
36:59or two months later or five months later
37:00or two years later.
37:04There's something almost Edgar Allan Poe
37:07about the death of Marilyn Monroe.
37:09Edgar Allan Poe said,
37:10there's nothing more poetic than the death of a beautiful woman.
37:14And certainly that's part of it.
37:17You know, I could be the one who saved her.
37:20Or what direction would her career have gone in
37:23had she lived?
37:34She lay in the mortuary for a day on claim.
37:39She really didn't have any immediate family.
37:42Some of her friends felt like they weren't close enough to do it.
37:47Brief and simple rites marked the funeral of Marilyn Monroe
37:50as former husband Joe DiMaggio
37:53leads a last tribute to the glamorous actors.
37:56Joe DiMaggio stepped up.
38:01He really, truly loved her.
38:05He set up the funeral
38:08and paid for it, paid for her crib.
38:12Only 25 persons were invited to the services
38:15and no screen stars were in attendance.
38:18He didn't want any of her Hollywood friends there
38:21like Frank Sinatra
38:24because he felt that
38:26that contributed to her downfall,
38:30the Hollywood set.
38:34He kept it very small
38:35with just people that were close with her.
38:43Even though he's a sometimes controversial figure
38:45in her life,
38:47one thing is for sure,
38:48he loved her very deeply
38:50and she loved him
38:51and she always turned to him
38:53in her moments of need.
39:00The final fade-out
39:01to the story of the poor girl
39:03who became a movie star
39:04is written
39:06Finis.
39:15It feels unfair.
39:17I understand him wanting privacy
39:20for her and her family
39:21but I don't understand
39:23why your ex-husband
39:24should get the right
39:25to control your funeral rights,
39:28control who was there.
39:31She had Hollywood friends.
39:33She's also a woman who,
39:34in spite of everyone constantly talking
39:36about the powerful men in her life,
39:37who had many female friendships.
39:40It does seem profoundly unfair to her
39:45and so indicative of that male ownership
39:47of her, her body,
39:48her life, her privacy
39:50for someone to just decide that.
39:52Nothing to do with her wishes,
39:53I would assume.
39:54Much more to do with his own
39:55and what he wanted.
39:59Peter Laughford,
40:00a one-time friend,
40:02associate,
40:03and of course brother-in-law
40:04to the Kennedys,
40:05is also buried
40:06fairly nearby to Marilyn.
40:09The story goes
40:10that he was heartbroken
40:11by her death
40:12and his failure
40:13to successfully intervene
40:15or to save her.
40:17It does feel a little bit for me
40:19like Marilyn's dive
40:21surrounded by the same wolves
40:22that hounded her
40:24and her life.
40:29Although her life
40:30was cut short,
40:32Marilyn Monroe lives on
40:34as a legendary figure,
40:35a blend of glamour,
40:38talent,
40:39and tragedy.
40:43She gives so much joy
40:45and so much entertainment
40:47to people
40:47that that's what we should
40:50really focus on.
40:52Her career,
40:53what she left behind,
40:55the good things that she did,
40:56she was a really
40:57marvelous person.
41:00All these other theories,
41:02I mean,
41:02I just don't think they're...
41:04I've never seen anything
41:05and that really convinced me.
41:08For me,
41:09right now,
41:10it's enough
41:10that she left behind
41:14such a really wonderful legacy
41:16in such a really short time.
41:20But I do think
41:21that the final story
41:22is a lot simpler
41:24than people want to make out.
41:26I know that Marilyn
41:27touches people
41:28in different ways
41:29and if it's very important
41:31for them to believe
41:32she died one way
41:33and I believe that
41:35it happened another way,
41:37I'm fine with that.
41:40I think there's a certain point
41:42where somebody like Marilyn
41:43and I think this is true
41:44of her in life
41:45as well as a star figure,
41:47they kind of lose
41:47some of their humanity.
41:49They become symbols to us.
41:52And now that a lot of time
41:53has passed,
41:54they're not really
41:55flesh and blood human beings
41:57with families
41:57and grieving loved ones.
42:01And so it becomes
42:03almost like a pub debate
42:04or a fun conversation
42:06to have.
42:07What do you think
42:07really happened?
42:08It becomes kind of
42:09this parlor game
42:10for people.
42:13I think conspiracy theories
42:15thrive in the absence
42:17of certainty
42:17and in the absence
42:19of wanting to accept
42:22a certain sad reality.
42:24I think it's really tough
42:26to accept that
42:28accidents happen,
42:29that people are led astray,
42:32that they have bad friends,
42:33bad guidance,
42:34that they struggle
42:36for mental health issues.
42:39It's long been sympathetic
42:40to Marilyn,
42:41a lot of these
42:42conspiracy theories.
42:43A lot of them say,
42:44well, she was,
42:44yes, she was a mess.
42:45Yes, maybe she was promiscuous,
42:47but actually she's a victim
42:48of circumstance.
42:50And they are maybe
42:51well-meaning,
42:52but none of them
42:53really tell the truth
42:53about her ambition,
42:55her complexity,
42:56her talent,
42:57because they are so invested
42:58in the tragedy.
43:00Because it's dramatic
43:01and because it's a neat,
43:03like sort of neater trajectory
43:04for them to follow.
43:05So people are interested in that.
43:13I think Marilyn
43:15will continue
43:16to beguile audiences
43:17because in spite
43:19of her personal troubles,
43:21mostly what you get
43:23from her on the screen,
43:24it's actually just vivacity
43:26and joy and liveliness.
43:28And it's interesting
43:29that there's so much focus
43:30on her troubles
43:32and her death
43:33when in fact,
43:34her films,
43:36particularly her musical numbers
43:37in Judgment for Blondes
43:40and How to Marry a Millionaire
43:41and some of her comic routines
43:43and Some Like It Hot.
43:45She's just so alive
43:46on the screen.
43:47She's so vivid.
43:51And I think this idea
43:53that there is a dichotomy
43:54between this happy woman
43:55on the screen
43:55and this miserable woman
43:56off of it,
43:57it's sort of an old stereotype.
43:59I think it was much more
43:59complex than that.
44:03Ultimately,
44:03she gives a lot of joy
44:05to viewers
44:06and I do believe
44:08I could sit
44:08a five-year-old
44:10or a 15-year-old
44:11or a 95-year-old
44:12in front of her best films
44:13and they will find
44:14some kind of joy
44:15and some kind of happiness
44:17or humor
44:17from them.
44:30The other thing about it
44:31is that
44:32from the tantalizing things
44:34that we do know
44:35and we do hear,
44:36whether it's hearsay,
44:37rumor, gossip
44:37or confirmed,
44:39that the LAPD
44:40was deeply corrupt,
44:41that the mafia
44:42and Hoover
44:43and FBI
44:43were doing some deeply,
44:45deeply frightening things.
44:49And all
44:50just under the surface
44:51of a 1950s and 60s
44:53public Americana
44:54and show business
44:55that was so wholesome looking
44:56and was so designed
44:57for wholesomeness
44:58and morality
44:59and good, clean fun
45:00and Sinatra crooning
45:02and Marilyn dancing
45:04and, you know,
45:05those beautiful kind of images
45:06of wholesome Americana
45:07and then
45:08just underneath
45:10there were some really,
45:11truly diabolical things
45:13going on.
45:14People are fascinated
45:16by that
45:17quite understandably.
45:19People have fixated
45:21on Marilyn
45:21as somebody
45:22who may have been
45:23involved with
45:23or murdered
45:24by organized crime
45:26associates
45:27or by the mob.
45:31The fact of the matter
45:32is the mafia
45:32was very powerful
45:33in Hollywood,
45:34particularly
45:34in the mid-century.
45:38Most stars
45:39of a certain caliber
45:40were associating
45:41with those people
45:45and that they did have pull
45:47and there were certain people
45:48in Hollywood
45:48who didn't mess with.
45:53Every Hollywood party
45:54liked to have its token
45:55shady guy or gangster
45:57because it was cool,
45:58it was glamorous.
45:59So there is this underworld
46:00just beneath the surface
46:02that's guiling to people.
46:07The reality is
46:08is that they did
46:09do bad things,
46:10often things
46:11that we'll never
46:11find out about
46:12because the nature
46:13of them
46:14is shrouded
46:15in secrecy.
46:16Marilyn Monroe,
46:18a woman whose life
46:19has been examined
46:20more closely
46:21than almost any
46:22in modern history.
46:24Yet across
46:25every timeline
46:26and testimony,
46:27one pattern
46:28persists.
46:30from her earliest
46:32days in Hollywood
46:33to the final
46:34hours of her life,
46:36individuals connected
46:38to organized crime
46:39appear again
46:40and again
46:40in her story.
46:42The rumors continue
46:43and the conspiracies
46:45linger,
46:46but the truth
46:47may be lost
46:48forever.
46:59in the way
47:00in the meantime
47:00of the
47:00the
47:00the
47:11slavery
47:12lottaas
47:12em
47:14ar
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