The decade of the 1950s sounds well into 2022 and yet Marilyn Monroe continues to dance through the present shining talent, beauty and glamour every time we come across a photograph of the artist and see in it a transparent being looking at the camera and going through it, leaving indelible images to remember. The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unreleased Tapes, is a documentary that returns to his life to learn more about his fateful death, to blur conspiracy theories, and get a little closer to the truth of what happened that morning of August 5, 1962 at his home in Brentwood, California, in where the actress was found unconscious in her bed next to an empty bottle of sleeping pills.
In this new documentary Netflixthe biographer of Hollywood’s golden diva, Anthony Summers, provides a timeline of events beyond the official version of his death, gleaned from hundreds of interviews he collects in a series of tapes that appear throughout the documentary. After her two failed marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, the tapes explore Marilyn Monroe’s romantic relationships with President John F. Kennedy and her brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy through never-before-seen conversations with her inner circle: Jane’s Russell, the actress he worked with on Gentlemen prefer blondesto the children of her last psychiatrist, Ralph Greeson, passing through John Huston, who took her to the concrete jungle and Billy Wilder, who did it in Temptation lives above Yes White skirts and acting crazy†
The tapes reassemble an image of Marilyn Monroe that we already knew, that of the vulnerable woman who tried to fight against the abandonment she suffered as a child under the curtain of the sexual icon she was to the world. The unexpected simultaneous split with the Kennedy brothers after realizing that the actress could be a danger to their career because of her ties to communism, in the last phase of her life, days after she sang that iconic song to the world Happy Birthday Mr PresidentIt was, according to an old friend the actress, Arthur James, “what killed her”. A blow that made Marilyn Monroe felt deeply hurt and used, like a simple piece of meat.
The tapes don’t solve the mystery that the death of Marilyn Monroe, where the possibilities of suicide, accident or murder are still being considered. Although the latter, Anthony Summers, decides to rule it out for lack of evidence, he insists on the infinity of data hidden around the circumstances of the actress’ death due to her intimate relationship with the actress. kennedy and why, according to Eunice Murray in one of the tapes, Robert Kennedy himself was at Monroe’s house on the afternoon of the day of his death, when they had a fierce fight. Great unknowns remain in the air on that fateful night, but they make up excuses to see Marilyn Monroe on screen again, for pushing the play and re-enjoy all the images that Hollywood’s eternal diva has given us in life.
Source: Marie Claire
