Netflix's new documentary about Marilyn Monroe
Netflix's new documentary 'The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes' offers answers to many questions, but not the most important - what really happened to the most famous woman in the world.
She is a fashion icon and someone whose appearance is an inspiration even 6 decades after her death. A sex symbol and a woman who charmed the whole world and who, in addition to the smile behind which happiness was hidden in only a few moments, also hid the scars of sexual abuse and all the pain of endless psychotherapy. She is Marilyn Monroe.
The actress, who, unlike her colleagues who would go home after work, she went to acting classes that she was regularly late for, usually arriving just before the door closed, pulling in without makeup, recognizable platinum hair hidden, trying to be as unobtrusive as possible. This appearance is unlike Marilyn, 16 meters tall, who took to the billboards above Loew's State Theater, advertising the film 'The Seven Year Itch', dressed in a white dress lifted by subway ventilation and her face from which joy bursts.
As one of the acting class students recalled, when it was her turn to do an acting exercise focused on sensory memory and when she was asked to recall a moment in her life and the clothes she wore and to conjure up scenes and scents of that memory, she described how she felt when she was alone in the room, years before, when an unnamed man entered. Moments later, as she described her clothes, what she heard, the words spoken to her she began to cry and sob loudly until she was finally completely devastated.
The moments witnessed by only a few raised the question that crossed the minds of all who met her character and work - was it the real Marilyn Monroe: an insecure, traumatized, sad and shy 29-year-old whose story was as tragic?
The latter is being addressed in a new Netflix documentary, trying to find out exactly what happened on August 5 when Marilyn Monroe's psychiatrist, Dr. Ralph Greenson, broke into her bedroom at 3.30 am, smashing a window and finding the actress dead in her bed, with an empty bottle of sleeping pills on the nightstand. Marilyn's housekeeper, Eunice Murray, woke up in the middle of the night and found a light on in her room and a locked door. It was she who called Dr. Greenson, worried that something was wrong.
This is how the official report describes the events, but the truth is completely different. Marilynn's biographer Anthony Summers reveals in the new documentary the other side of a story, presenting a new timeline of events from the fateful night, based on hundreds of interviews for an updated version of his 1985 biography.
