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0:00she never was really happy I don't think
0:01there was ever anybody that really
0:03understood her Marilyn never felt for
0:07sure that there was any human being that
0:10was completely interested in her as a
0:13person she stopped and said you're only
0:15interested in my body that's what it
0:16always comes down to it's a hard life
0:19it's not an easy life and she tried her
0:22best she's been adored the world over
0:25for
0:27Generations well I loved her right away
0:29she is like iic and defines Hollywood
0:32glamour but she was a child that nobody
0:35wanted and she was subbing she said I'm
0:37not an orphan I have a mother this is an
0:41intimate look at a life that ended much
0:43too soon this is real life Marilyn
0:56Monroe hello everyone and welcome to
0:59real life mirac androe I'm Dana Devon
1:01I'm standing outside the famous Beverly
1:03Hills Hotel a favorite getaway of the
1:05late screen Legend well Marilyn Monroe
1:08died 50 years ago but she is just as
1:11relevant today as she was during her
1:13tumultuous 16 years of Fame and while
1:16Marilyn may be one of a kind over the
1:18years Hollywood's been busy trying to
1:20recreate
1:25her we're having a heat wave
1:30a tropical heat Michelle Williams was
1:33nominated for an Oscar for her brilliant
1:35betrayal of Marilyn in My Week with
1:37Marilyn the actress acknowledged the
1:39challenge of portraying the icon in a
1:42way you sort of had to remove the fact
1:44that she was an icon and and and um put
1:47that out of your mind um because it
1:49would be too daunting and instead try
1:51and think of her as a girl as an
1:53ordinary girl which is really how she
1:54wanted to be thought of ultimately shall
1:56I be her who Marilyn but Marilyn isn't
2:00just being celebrated on the big screen
2:02Steven Spielberg created an entire TV
2:04show about two starlets clamoring to
2:06play Marilyn on Broadway I think it's
2:09genius to tap into the the plot lines of
2:12her life and parallel them into story
2:15lines in Smash you know that each
2:18character kind of mirrors some aspect of
2:20her life so it really behooves all of us
2:23to to do our research she has such a
2:27drive and such a love for what she does
2:29and and I think that's where I relate
2:31most um with her just sort of that um
2:35just Relentless nature of just being
2:38determined to do what you do and uh not
2:41taking no for an answer and I that I
2:45really relate with audiences really
2:47related with Charlotte Sullivan who
2:48played Marilyn Monroe in the miniseries
2:51the kennedies you said we would get
2:52married no no he promise no there's no
2:54marriage but it's not just scripted TV
2:57that's cashing in on Marilyn Madonna
2:59dressed to to imitate in her 1985
3:01Material Girl video steals the look from
3:04the hit musical number Diamonds Are a
3:06Girl's Best Friend but diamonds are girl
3:09best
3:11friend Lindsay Lohan recreated a famous
3:14maryn pose for New York Magazine and
3:16then channeled Marilyn once again for
3:18Playboy even Penelope crw copied her
3:21look for her role in the 2009 film
3:23broken Embraces so why all this Marilyn
3:26Mania Hollywood has been in love with
3:28Marilyn Monroe for more than half a
3:30Century men loved her sexiness and could
3:34appreciate that and in fact that's what
3:36drew them to her women could appreciate
3:39how vulnerable she was and her Frailty
3:43with emotions but both men and women
3:46both wanted to rescue her baby I'm
3:50through with love rescue came to Marilyn
3:54in the form of her first husband Jimmy
3:56dhy who married Marilyn when she was 16
3:59shortly thereafter Jim was shipped off
4:01to fight in World War II and Marilyn
4:03found herself working in a Munitions
4:05Factory can you believe that the future
4:08Marilyn
4:10Monroe landed up spraying fire retardant
4:13material on airplane parts and inspected
4:16parachutes it's extraordinary but this
4:20is where it all began for Marilyn Monroe
4:23the photographer David Conover came to
4:26film what were considered morale booster
4:29photos from those photographs she was uh
4:32taken to a modeling agency uh the Blue
4:35Book agency and she really was very
4:36popular as a model she modeled at The
4:39Roosevelt Hotel in swimsuits and all
4:41over the place and then Ben lion who was
4:44a casting director of 20th Century Fox
4:47he discovered her and put her under
4:49contract she signed her first contract
4:51with 20th Century Fox in 1946 her first
4:54screen appearance for Fox was in a Betty
4:56grael movie called The shocking Miss
4:58Pilgrim but she didn't end up on screen
5:00all we do is hear her voice briefly she
5:02did small parts bit Parts one in a
5:05picture called ticket to Tomahawk I had
5:07one word well not exactly a word I
5:11said Columbia Pictures signed her on in
5:131948 she made one movie there called
5:16ladies of the chorus and then they
5:17dropped her it was her new agent Johnny
5:20Hyde that really started to turn things
5:22around for her and got of the parts that
5:24made people notice like All About Eve
5:27that's how you met me in passing I'm
5:29afraid Mr dwit would find me boring
5:31before too long you won't bore him honey
5:34you won't even get a chance to talk and
5:36the asphalt jungle imagine me on this
5:38beach here in my green bathing suit YY
5:41well one of the best parts I've ever had
5:44was in the Asel jungle John Houston's
5:47picture and
5:49then um 7y rich in between those two
5:53movies of course were some of her
5:54biggest hits like Gentlemen Prefer
5:56Blondes and how to Marry a Millionaire
5:59do you know who I'd like to marry who
6:02Rockefeller which one I don't care and
6:06though they may not have been her
6:07favorites they were what the public
6:09wanted to see her do be a a sexy
6:16blond girl
6:21best best
6:25friend she always wanted to find a man
6:29who would love her for her would protect
6:32her most
6:34important and to be able to protect her
6:36he would have to be a powerful
6:38individual it was during this time that
6:41Marilyn married her second husband
6:42baseball great Joe demaggio on January
6:4514th 1954 they lived here in this home
6:49in Beverly Hills but unfortunately the
6:51marriage wouldn't last Joe de masio was
6:54in New York City for the very famous
6:56filming of Marilyn Monroe Street scene
6:59with the ionic white dress for the
7:01seven-year itch isn't it delicious Jo
7:05deago really had a problem with this he
7:08felt his wife and I think the Opera word
7:10was wife not just Marilyn Monroe but his
7:14wife Marilyn Monro was being exploited
7:17he was one his his wife standing there
7:19with the skirts up over her head I mean
7:22what would mama say and don't forget
7:24he's Joe dagio what would you know the
7:27guys in in the locker room say huh
7:30and he couldn't understand why it had to
7:32be done so many times in an open set
7:35with all these strangers that were
7:38onlookers he was fuming that caused Joe
7:43and Marilyn real friction and by all
7:47accounts it was truly the actual
7:50beginning to the end of their marriage
7:53it also marked the beginning of a desire
7:55for Marilyn to be taken more seriously
7:58audience has enjoyed her in some of
7:59these popular movies but she was looking
8:01for something more and more of a
8:02challenge that's why she moved to New
8:04York and enrolled in Lee strasburg's
8:06prestigious actor Studio to take classes
8:09there that's also where she first met
8:11and started dating the playwright Arthur
8:13Miller Marilyn Monroe married the
8:16well-known playwright Arthur Miller in
8:181956 she married the wrong
8:21guys for the wrong
8:24reasons she want to be an
8:26intellect people wouldn't believe it
8:28even if she was an intellect and she
8:29wasn't stupid for heaven sakes well I
8:32think she thought that if the world
8:35embraced those people whether was dagio
8:38or nurman maer or anyone else if the
8:41world found something in them there must
8:44be something there and it would be
8:47worthwhile her relating to it while she
8:50was living in New York she partnered
8:52with photographer Milton green to start
8:54their own production company got a few
8:56things in mind but nothing definite as
8:58yet uh Marilyn tell me what's the basic
9:01reason for this
9:04Corporation primarily
9:06to contribute to help making good
9:10pictures and it was through that company
9:12that they launched a pretty ambitious
9:14production The Prince and the show girl
9:15to be made in England co-starring and
9:18directed by Sir Lawrence Olivia say
9:20wouldn't it be a good thing if you and
9:22him made it up I mean for your country
9:24and for European peace and all that
9:26these things are not done so easily you
9:28know oh I don't know with a little give
9:29and take it wouldn't be so hot in 1959
9:32she won a Golden Globe for her wonderful
9:34portrayal of sugar cane in Some Like It
9:37Hot Billy Wilder's wonderful comedy and
9:39it was a film that actually her
9:41playright husband Arthur Miller
9:42encouraged her to do I'm Sugar Kane hi
9:46sugar cane yeah I changed it used to be
9:48sugar kovalic you polish yes two years
9:52later she co-starred with Clark Gable on
9:53Montgomery Cliff in a movie that was
9:56written especially for her by her
9:58husband The Misfits directed by the same
10:00man who gave her such a good break in
10:02the asphalt jungle John
10:06Houston what if someday suddenly you
10:09turn around and you don't like me
10:12anymore Marilyn and Arthur Miller uh
10:16their marriage was rather turbulent and
10:18by the time the film wrapped they did
10:21not return home together and ultimately
10:25within a few weeks a true separation and
10:28their divorce was finally ized in
10:30January
10:311961 is anybody any
10:34different maybe you're not supposed to
10:35believe what people say maybe it's not
10:37even fair to them the Misfits was the
10:40last Marilyn Monroe movie to be released
10:42to the public but it wasn't her last
10:44project in 1962 she started making a
10:47romantic comedy at fox called something
10:49got to give with Dean Martin and this
10:52was to have been kind of a return to
10:54form for her but it was plagued with
10:57problems right from the beginning oh
10:59well we always wondered whether she'd
11:01show up for work that was our main
11:03concern we just didn't
11:06know if there was a Marilyn in AO around
11:09who could come and work in a movie
11:11during the filming Marilyn claimed she
11:12was sick and ordered a fly to New York
11:14to sing Happy Birthday to President John
11:16F Kennedy when Marilyn returned from
11:21her long weekend in New York shall we
11:25say the hell broke loose on this
11:27set and uh it was never the same for
11:30Marilyn when she returned to Hollywood
11:33from that now famous trip to New York
11:34City she was fired by 20th Century Fox
11:38they said she'd only shown up for work
11:4012 days out of 35 days of production
11:43months later she finally resolved her
11:45dispute with Fox they wrote a new
11:48contract that would have given her a
11:49million dollars for a two- picture deal
11:52and they scheduled a resumption of
11:53filming for something's got to give that
11:54fall but sadly that was never to be on
11:58Saturday August 4 1962 at the age of 36
12:02Marilyn died in her brintwood home from
12:04an apparent overdose although some say
12:07it was suicide others speculate that it
12:09was murder with no family no children
12:12and three failed marriages Marilyn died
12:15alone and that was one of the things
12:17that had always plagued Marilyn in her
12:19thoughts from the time she was a child
12:22you know she equated being loved as
12:26being wanted and in her mind because she
12:28was alone she was not wanted which
12:32translated to not being loved and that's
12:35the difficulty of poor Marilyn Monroe
12:38and her
12:40life Marilyn Monroe was laid to rest
12:43here at the Westwood Village Memorial
12:45Park Cemetery 50 years ago and in 50
12:48years there's never been another one
12:50like her we'll have more on Marilyn's
12:52final days later when we talk with two
12:54photographers who were working with her
12:56right up to the end but first we return
12:58to the orphanage where Marilyn lived as
13:01we uncover her lonely childhood so she
13:03would stare out at that and dream of
13:06becoming another Jee Hollow and later
13:08we'll hear from the ultimate Playboy on
13:10how Marilyn launched his career that
13:13image was taken by our art director
13:15Arthur Paul and uh turned into an iconic
13:19cover then mity Gainer shares for the
13:22first time intimate stories of working
13:24with Marilyn on the set of There's No
13:26Business Like Show Business nothing
13:29faced her she was very determined to
13:31make herself into Marilyn
13:49Monroe welcome back to real life Marilyn
13:52Monroe I'm Dana Devon Marilyn Monroe
13:55only existed for the last 16 years of
13:57the star's life so who was she before
14:00she was the blonde bombshell on the big
14:02screen and how did her dreams of being a
14:04star begin well many say they started
14:07right here at the Hol Grove orphanage in
14:11Hollywood well when she was she lived
14:13here uh when it was still the Los
14:15Angeles orphans Home
14:17Society and she because she slept in the
14:20upstairs girls Hall and she could see
14:24the Paramount water tower Paramount
14:26Studios so she would stare out at that
14:28and dream of becoming another Jee harow
14:32because her um her mother's best friend
14:35used to take her to the movies all the
14:36time and they she loved Jean harow and
14:40so she would emulate Jean harow and try
14:43the clothes those dress like Jean Hol it
14:46was from this exact center secondstory
14:48window that Marilyn would look at that
14:51Paramount water tower her brief stay at
14:54Holly Grove was a respit for young
14:56normagene from an otherwise turbulent
14:58childhood Ood Norma jeene was born in
15:01Los Angeles on June 1st
15:041926 Norma Jean's mother Gladis Baker
15:08was an unstable woman uh interestingly
15:12enough she did have a job and she made
15:14good money but unfortunately Norma's
15:18mother was UN aable to take care of her
15:20with the day-to-day uh goings on that
15:23are required to raise a young child and
15:26so normagene was given to to glattus his
15:30best friend at the time aunt
15:33Grace how old was she when she came here
15:36she was 9 years old and she had been
15:39living with Grace mcke but Grace mcke uh
15:43just got married so she brought Grace
15:46mcke brought her here to live and she
15:48was sobbing as they dropped her off and
15:51she she said I'm not an orphan I have a
15:54mother I don't belong in an orphanage
15:56and she she was desperate not to come
15:58here
15:59what was her impression and feelings
16:01about the time she spent
16:03here I think she really found this a
16:06safe haven because it was a wonderfully
16:08nurturing place I think she really
16:11enjoyed the other children she was like
16:13the big sister to so many of them and
16:16and I think it really brought out
16:18brought out another side to her she was
16:20very shy and she would play the piano
16:24she would play the piano to kind of
16:26entertain the children and calm them
16:27down really I didn't know she could play
16:30the piano I've never heard anybody else
16:32discuss it but people that knew her then
16:34as a child what was a typical day like
16:37for her here well they they they
16:40actually tried to make it like a typical
16:41day in a family you know breakfast
16:44together then going off to school
16:47um and chores to do and they had pets
16:50and they all had to take care you know
16:52they had to just they really did try to
16:55make it as normal as possible but also
16:57this was the countryside
16:59because the orphanage was originally
17:01downtown and started in
17:031880 they moved out here to give them
17:07fresh country air if you can believe it
17:09right so and it was just Fields
17:11everywhere did Grace ever come visit her
17:14oh yes she would come and visit her and
17:16she'd take her out to the movies and
17:17take her out to the beauty parlor so she
17:19liked that and then Grace mcke came and
17:23got her again but Grace then took her to
17:28to Grace's aunt aunt Anna Marilyn grew
17:33to love Aunt Anna in fact that was
17:35probably some of the most stable years
17:37of her life and it was the confidence
17:40that Aunt Anna gave her even though she
17:43was not really related but this woman
17:47had a tremendous influence on her not
17:49only in her childhood and teenage years
17:52but throughout her life at the age of 16
17:55Marilyn Monroe well Norma jeene returned
17:59to the home of graceon Doc gard and uh
18:03she enjoyed her time there but the gards
18:07were going to be transferred to Virginia
18:09so it was decided that Marilyn Monroe
18:11would not go with them she said you have
18:13a choice you can go back to the
18:15orphanage we'll find you another foster
18:17family or you can marry Jim
18:20dhy which she didn't want to do any of
18:23them but he was a nice boy she said he
18:25was very nice and he was very he was
18:28very caring so that's why she got
18:30married at 16 so how long was she here
18:33in the orphanage total uh it was almost
18:352 years they have a wonderful Ledger
18:38which is not normally allowed to be seen
18:41um that she signed and the first time
18:44she came back though she was she was um
18:47still normagene right but the second
18:49time and the third time she came back
18:52she signed as Marilyn Monroe and it says
18:54profession and so she wrote actress and
18:58then in Brackets
18:59Marilyn Monroe she printed just in case
19:02they didn't get it and it's never been
19:03seen by anyone before until now no first
19:06time it's it's wonderful do you think
19:08that was a moment for her like like that
19:11she had made something of herself
19:13absolutely I think it was very important
19:15to her I I really do because it was her
19:19dream she' fulfilled her
19:24dream a sad beginning and a tragic end
19:27for a life cut but too short when we
19:30come back we go to the Playboy Mansion
19:32to talk with Hugh Hefner about
19:33Maryland's Playboy history people had
19:35heard about the pictures but almost
19:37nobody had seen them because the post
19:39office took the position that you could
19:40not send nudity through the
19:54mail hello everyone and welcome to this
19:57very special look at Marilyn Monroe 50
20:00years later I'm right outside the famous
20:03Playboy Mansion here in h Hills
20:05California you know H Hefner jumpstarted
20:08the careers of a lot of girls but
20:10Marilyn jumpstarted Playboy magazine she
20:12graced the first cover in 1953 and in an
20:16ironic twist the last nude photos ever
20:19taken of her appeared in the magazine 10
20:21years
20:23later if you will remind me the first
20:27time you ever saw Maryland um it may
20:31very well have been gentleman FL blondes
20:34I you know my guess is that probably was
20:38oh thank you ever so may I may I kiss
20:40your
20:41hand I always say a kiss on the hand
20:44might feel very good but a diamond tiara
20:47lasts forever when you saw her do you do
20:50you remember the impression she made on
20:52you well I loved her right away yes I
20:54think she is Iconic and and uh you you
20:57know defin
20:59Hollywood glamour yeah I do think that
21:01that mer Monroe is the single greatest
21:04uh sex symbol of the the last century
21:09let's talk about how it came to be that
21:12she was on the first cover of Playboy
21:14she was actually uh sitting I think on
21:15the back of of a uh car and was waving
21:19yes and that image was taken by our art
21:22director Arthur Paul and uh turned into
21:26an iconic cover tell me how that
21:28happened do you remember well I was
21:29starting the magazine with absolutely no
21:32money uh and um I needed something
21:37special to get the attention of the
21:39audience cuz I didn't have a lot of
21:40money to spend on publicity right and
21:43then I learned uh from a story in the
21:46local newspaper that uh maril Monroe had
21:50posed for these newe calendar
21:54photos uh and uh people had heard about
21:56the pictures but almost nobody had seen
21:58them because the post office took the
22:00position that you could not send nudity
22:03through the
22:04mail and I was the kid who didn't
22:06believe the post office had that
22:08right so I I learned simultaneously that
22:12uh the calendar company John bomgar that
22:15owned the rights to that image was uh
22:19located out on the the uh Northwest side
22:21of Chicago very close to where I grew up
22:23so I drove out on North Avenue and my
22:26beat up uh 194 Chevy uh and convinced
22:30him that it would be good publicity and
22:32he uh sold me the right to reproduce the
22:36the nude image for $500 I got a very
22:38good bargain and she was a playmate
22:41right it was it called a very first she
22:43was the very first but it was called
22:44something else then sweetheart of the
22:46month sweetheart of the month because
22:47the magazine initially was not going to
22:50be called Playboy I was going to call
22:52the magazine stag party and the symbol
22:55for the magazine was going to be a stag
22:57not a rabbit
22:59uh and I changed uh I got a cease and
23:01assist letter from the from the lawyer
23:04for stag magazine saying that they
23:06thought that the logo stag party would
23:08be an infringement on their stag name
23:11and I was already having some second
23:12thoughts about it so at the very last
23:14minute we changed the title from the of
23:17the magazine from stag party to uh
23:21Playboy and changed the Stag to a
23:24sophisticated rabbit the rest is history
23:26the rest is history that that was
23:28Marilyn's first encounter with Playboy
23:31her second came in 1962 almost 10 years
23:34later photographer Lawrence Schiller was
23:36on the set of Marilyn's last movie
23:38Something's Got to Give when Marilyn
23:40turned a pool scene into a nude scene
23:42the script called for Marilyn to appear
23:44naked in the water wearing nude colored
23:47undergarments but Marilyn was making a
23:49play for more publicity and well the
23:51rest is Playboy history what's
23:53interesting as a matter of fact we ran
23:56the the very first nudes of Marilyn
23:59Monroe in the first issue of Playboy and
24:02we also ran the lren Schiller uh photos
24:06which were the last nudes that she shot
24:09uh and those were taken during a
24:10swimming scene uh in the last movie that
24:13she did that never completed and Larry
24:16had done other work for us Marilyn uh
24:19and it's obvious in some of the dialogue
24:22that that she had with him at the time
24:25uh she suggested specifically that we
24:28that we sent some of those photos to
24:30Playboy and he did she wanted everybody
24:33to know that she was in good shape her
24:35body was great and that she was on top
24:37again so you know we sent them to Hefner
24:41and we entered into a negotiation she
24:42was part of that negotiation she knew
24:45that you know we' asked Hefner for
24:47$50,000 he came down to$ 25,000 that was
24:50a lot of money in those days still a lot
24:52of money in today's Days Marilyn was
24:55even considering doing uh a cover for
24:57Playboy magazine her untimely death
25:01prevented that from happening yes I had
25:03a a a concept for a cover uh and the one
25:06conversation that I ever had with her
25:08was on the phone related to that and it
25:10was the notion that uh it would be the
25:15the front cover and the inside front
25:17cover and she would be holding a fur in
25:20front of her but she would be nude
25:22behind the fur although Hugh Hefner
25:24never had the chance to meet Marilyn his
25:26admiration for her lives on to this day
25:28and will continue even into eternity she
25:31is buried in a vault uh just a few
25:34blocks from here in the Westwood
25:37Cemetery and I have the Vault right next
25:39to her you do have it how did that come
25:42to be I bought it when I learned it was
25:44available I thought you know there's
25:47something natural about that so Marilyn
25:49and I will be spending the rest of
25:51Eternity side by
25:54side Hugh has surrounded himself with
25:56beautiful women his entire life but he
25:58is just as fascinated with Marilyn as
26:00the rest of us are later we talked to
26:03the man who shot those last nude photos
26:05of Marilyn when Marilyn came out of the
26:07water with nothing on nobody blinked
26:10because we were all professionals there
26:13I myself just kept on shooting shooting
26:16as I would before and next our exclusive
26:19with mity Gainer I get very choked up
26:22when I think about her
26:32welcome to real life Marilyn Monroe I'm
26:35Dana Devon I'm standing across the
26:37street from 20th Century Fox the studio
26:40that launched maryn's career in
26:421946 Marilyn arguably has been America's
26:45most beloved actress for more than 50
26:48years but there were only a very few who
26:50really knew
26:52her I have very strange and wondrous
26:54feelings about Marilyn mity Gainer
26:56starred with Marilyn in the movie
26:58there's No Business Like Show Business
27:00released in 1954 and I think
27:03honestly she steals the picture I really
27:06do she is so good in it she's so good at
27:10being Marilyn in
27:18ite and she she like how can I explain
27:21it to you she kind of glowed in the dark
27:24I first saw her in person in the
27:27hairdressing department at box I was
27:29doing something one of my girl pictures
27:31like Golden Girl or the I don't care
27:32girl or look up in the sky it's a girl
27:35or you know one of those things and this
27:37girl came in this girl came in and she
27:40was all kind of very shiny and she had
27:43like last night's makeup on and she
27:45hadn't taken a shower and I didn't know
27:48who she was not much and for somebody to
27:51come in the next day with last night's
27:53makeup on I mean puff puff yling we were
27:56really I mean ins saying with Tes we
27:59didn't realize that she was up all night
28:01because she was learning her lines and
28:04you know suffering right she was what
28:07she was doing I think was at that time
28:10beginning to create in quotes Marilyn
28:12Monroe I think that uh she was known as
28:16a dumb blonde she was about as dumb as
28:19Winston Churchill no I mean it she was
28:24she knew what she wanted she knew how to
28:25get it killed her
28:28but
28:29um she was used she gave and gave and
28:33gave and gave and gave I guess you can
28:35tell from me talking about hers I was
28:38maybe one of her biggest
28:44fans the final number when we all
28:47arrived that first morning uh to shoot
28:49you know we were all in what whatever we
28:51were wearing and Ethel Morman beautiful
28:53white dress Mitsy and by the way mity
28:55was quite just to make that point Mitsy
28:57is so so darling she had the most
29:00amazing beautiful figure and so eth
29:02merman arrives and myy arrives and and
29:06then Marilyn
29:07Monroe comes to the set in that blue
29:11dress and my way of describing is that
29:15everything else disappeared I know we
29:17have this sort of mythical thing about
29:19her but the the truth is it's kind of
29:21true no people like show people they
29:25smile when they are home if you've seen
29:28it in the finale uh we appear up on this
29:33huge level to get there we have to go up
29:35these bleachers up the I think it was 25
29:38of those and then up there and then we
29:40have to come down again and we had to
29:42practice that and she didn't do it so
29:44the first time she did everybody knew
29:46that she was going to trip on the stairs
29:48she didn't trip Etha was Furious I kind
29:51of said good for her she was uh
29:55musically naturally gifted as a singer
29:58as a dancer I mean she wasn't a trained
30:01dancer but she moved she moved
30:03beautifully I've only come to appreciate
30:06that myself with with time every time I
30:08watched her I just see some other small
30:11little impulse that she she she uh gives
30:15and uh that's natural you you can't you
30:19can't learn that so much of what you
30:22hear about her is about how hard she was
30:24to work with and well she wasn't hard to
30:27work with when she
30:29worked she was no she she never upstaged
30:33you she never got in your way she never
30:34got in your light she never ever ever
30:36did she was uh beautifully concentrated
30:40cared really deeply about what she was
30:42doing um she wasn't uh she didn't laugh
30:45and giggle and talk to people in between
30:48takes that's how focused she was uh and
30:52I I've always remembered that and and
30:55admire it tremendously she was Marilyn
30:58and there would be other people around
31:00her she knew what she was supposed to do
31:03she was very good with her
31:05lines but if she didn't want to do it
31:08she would say well don't you realize
31:10that I I don't think I'm doing this very
31:14well take 48 well I think oh dear what's
31:19the next word take 96 I it got to be
31:23kind of like that nothing phased her
31:26what she did when she went home home at
31:28night I don't know but what she did on
31:33the
31:33set she was very determined to make
31:36herself into Marilyn Monroe did Marilyn
31:39seem guarded to you yes how Marilyn
31:43wouldn't let you in she was Marl Monroe
31:46she worked at that Ethel and I were you
31:49know singing and dancing and carrying on
31:51and Donald O Conor and I would be
31:52telling jokes but she would be in her
31:54dressing room getting ready and and we
31:56always knew that something was up when
31:59her crew came out of the dressing room
32:02and she didn't come out meaning she's
32:05ready to go they've done their part she
32:07just wasn't coming out she would sit in
32:09her dressing room hour after hour and we
32:12couldn't get her to come out and go
32:13under the side she felt she was
32:15inadequate she felt in certain instances
32:19what she had to offer to deliver in her
32:23profession was not sufficient for what
32:26the role demand
32:28and the people around her expected that
32:31she would not deliver and uh she was
32:35supposedly more and more frightened all
32:37the time and the more frightened she got
32:38the more vulnerable she CA became and
32:41the more vulnerable she became the more
32:43you could see there was really such a
32:45soul in there There's 7 billion people
32:48in the
32:49world and I would
32:52guess the 2third of them wonder if
32:57anybody else in the world really fully
33:00relates to them she was one of those 2/3
33:05in their heart they Wonder does anybody
33:08really care an awful lot that I'm here
33:11and now and I think she was one of those
33:14what kind of a life did she have was she
33:18never was really happy I don't think
33:20there was ever anybody that
33:23really understood
33:26her I get very choked up when I think
33:28about
33:29her I interviewed mity here at The
33:32Roosevelt Hotel where Marilyn often
33:34stayed in fact you can stay in the room
33:37where Marilyn slept just ask for the
33:39Marilyn Monro Suite when we come back
33:41we'll talk to two men who knew Marilyn
33:43in a very unique way they'll share their
33:46most Treasured Memories of her including
33:48their troubling last conversations with
33:51Marilyn the day before she died and I've
33:54always in my heart wondered if I was out
33:57there
33:59and I was with her maybe it would have
34:02been different and uh it's one of the
34:06things that I'll always regret not going
34:17out welcome back to real life Marilyn
34:20Monroe I'm Dana Devon I'm here at the
34:23Santa Monica Beach the location of the
34:25very last photo shoot Marilyn did before
34:28she died Marilyn was a natural in front
34:31of the camera and for that reason she
34:33cultivated many close relationships with
34:35photographers two of those men who saw
34:38Marilyn from a rare perspective through
34:40the lens tell an intimate tale of not
34:43just the actress they saw but the woman
34:45they
34:47knew this camera is a camera that I took
34:51the pictures of Marilyn Monroe I first
34:54met maryn in September 1954
34:58when she came to New York for her first
35:00starring role the 7year AG he was kind
35:04of scary looking but he wasn't really
35:06all bad so I went to location where they
35:10were shooting film on Second Avenue and
35:14she was leaning out the window on a
35:17second floor of a brownstone building I
35:20went
35:21upstairs and the only thing I can see of
35:24her was her Dairy hair but it was the
35:27most beautiful darer you can imagine
35:30I've ever seen on a woman so I
35:33automatically started shooting and the
35:36cameras click click click apparently she
35:39heard the sound she turned around she
35:42looked at me she smiled she said I'll
35:45take a dozen of
35:47those and that was our first encounter
35:50her darer and my
35:53camera you see this is a picture a
35:56series of pictures this is actually the
35:58first role of film that I shot of
35:59Marilyn you know the first time I met
36:01Marilyn I was only 23 years old uh I was
36:04just a kid uh learning to becoming a
36:07photojournalist he didn't know it then
36:09but he was meeting Marilyn at the very
36:11end of her life he was hired by look
36:13magazine to shoot Marilyn on her last
36:15movie Something's Got to Give and she
36:17walked up the steps of her dressing room
36:18and then the press agent next to me
36:21caught her attention and said Marilyn
36:23you know a Larry Schiller is here from
36:25look magazine and she turned around and
36:28you know gave me this big smile just as
36:30if she'd turned a light switch on and uh
36:33she took a step back down and she said
36:35I'm Marilyn and I didn't know what to
36:37say so I said I'm the big bad wolf and
36:40then she looked at me and kind of said
36:42well I think you're a little too young
36:43to be that bad how old are you and I
36:46said I'm 23 years old but I've been
36:47shooting six pictures since I was 16
36:50trying to prop up you know who I was and
36:52she said well you know when I was 23 I
36:54made this movie and that movie but when
36:56you grow up you're going to be aot L
36:57better I can
37:01tell ell get out of there she decided
37:05that she wanted to use the Ultimate
37:07Weapon against 20th Century Fox which
37:09was the use of her body for publicity
37:12purposes this is a picture that really
37:14says everything and shows nothing it was
37:16also one of Marilyn's favorites and was
37:19mine also this is after she's come out
37:21of the swimming pool and she's just
37:23really kind of talking to George ccer
37:25the director and thinking about well you
37:28know what's it all about and of course
37:31this in those days was the most famous
37:33nude picture that had been done of her
37:34in 10 years this was full page in Life
37:37magazine and was on covers of magazines
37:39all throughout the world when Marilyn
37:42came out of the water with nothing on
37:44nobody blinked because we were all
37:46professionals there I myself just kept
37:49on shooting shooting as I would before
37:53you see Marilyn Marilyn was battling the
37:56studios they were losing money on this
37:58picture she was late every single day
38:01she would sit in her dressing room one
38:03or two or 3 hours before she'd come out
38:05well I was going to tell you but I know
38:07how upset you get about little things
38:09little things you know she was getting
38:11paid $100,000 from 20th Century Fox to
38:15make something's got to give Liz Taylor
38:16from the same Studio was getting paid a
38:18million dollars Marilyn Monroe wanted to
38:21prove she could garnish as much
38:22publicity as Liz Taylor was when I
38:24released the pictures taken by the
38:26swimming pool she wanted to make sure
38:28that Liz Taylor was not in any of the
38:31magazines that I was releasing those
38:33pictures to marily Monroe was desperate
38:36in those final days George bars also
38:40recalls the desperation in Marilyn's
38:42final days I got a phone call I was in
38:45the office she said can you come out uh
38:48this uh weekend and I said well it's
38:52Friday you know it's just it's kind of
38:55late in the afternoon here and uh I said
38:58is it all right if I came out by Monday
39:01she was kind of sad she said well all
39:03right she said but it's it's really
39:06important I said well can't you talk on
39:09the phone tell me what it's about she
39:11said it's something I'd rather not
39:13discuss on the phone and that was Friday
39:17afternoon and of
39:20course that was August
39:223rd and she died that weekend the fourth
39:27which was
39:28Saturday and I've always in my heart
39:31wondered if I was out
39:33there and I was with her maybe it would
39:37have been different but who knows but it
39:40always bothered me that I didn't go out
39:43to see
39:44her and uh it's one of the things that
39:48I'll always regret not going
39:53out it was interesting when I arrived at
39:55Marilyn's home shortly after I had been
39:57notified that she died you know nobody
39:59checked press credentials there was a
40:01group of photographers around her body
40:03had been taken out of the house earlier
40:05and take him to the mortuary so I went
40:07over to the mortuary only to find a few
40:09hours later Joe deio arriving we were
40:12went over to the funeral home Joe deio
40:17had decided that there were only certain
40:20people allowed to the funeral and he
40:23didn't want any Hollywood so-called
40:26personalities he looked at the list he
40:28said yeah you're okay he said we're not
40:31letting everybody in he said Frank
40:33Sinatra was here Samy Davis Jr the
40:37Kennedy people were here he said they're
40:40not allowed into this funeral he felt
40:44that they were the ones that ruined her
40:46life George shot the last photos ever
40:48taken of Maryland on July 13th 1962 3
40:52weeks before her death on the way to the
40:54location he says the kennedies were on
40:56her mind
40:58we went to the beach in Santa
41:00Monica and uh we passed the
41:04house where Peter Lawford had his house
41:07and where she had many exciting and also
41:12very sad
41:14experiences where she met the president
41:17of the United States John F Kennedy and
41:20his brother Robert and she she had a
41:24Tears In Her Eyes I could notice when we
41:27pass the house but at the Santa Monica
41:30Beach we did the pictures together all
41:33day long
41:35constantly and it was getting late in
41:37the
41:38afternoon and the sun had gone down and
41:41it was getting windy and she was at the
41:45last moment getting very exhausted and
41:47tired and she said George she said I
41:51hope this can be the last picture I said
41:53I promise it is that she was dressed in
41:56her fisherman sweater and she had a
42:00little blanket or covering her legs she
42:03leaned forward she pucked her lips and
42:06she blew a kiss to me and she said this
42:08is just for
42:10you I'll never forget that day as long
42:14as I
42:15live the house that brought back so many
42:19sad memories for Marilyn Peter lawford's
42:21house is right behind me here on the
42:23Santa Monica Beach we leave you now with
42:26some special thoughts from those that
42:28were lucky enough to have known her
42:30thank you so much for watching real life
42:32Marilyn
42:33Monroe when I started shooting her she
42:36caught my eye and she said you know
42:38that's not a good picture from that
42:39angle but if you go over there to the
42:41left you know you'll see what a good
42:43picture was and I went over the left I
42:44lifted the camera and there she was
42:46Marilyn Monroe you know I'd never taken
42:49a better picture of her at that moment
42:50she was just fabulous she was empowering
42:55she was look at me nobody else is going
42:57to do this but me I'm Marilyn Monroe and
43:00then of course everybody else tried to
43:01but it wasn't it's not the same she had
43:04great strength one of the things that
43:06people I've been asked does she does she
43:09really look like that in person or does
43:11she look better on screen no she looked
43:14that's what she looked like what what
43:15you see on screen is what she looked
43:17like she was she was just asonic she had
43:23said what she wanted most was to bring
43:27happiness to people and if she could do
43:30that with her Talent singing dancing and
43:35joking and as long as they forgot their
43:39problems and they laughed and had fun
43:42that was the most important thing to
43:44bring happiness to people well I don't
43:47know what she would have done if she'd
43:48not been famous uh I I have no idea what
43:53what where her life would have gone uh
43:57and I think it'd be hard to say I don't
43:59think there there was anything in her
44:02that would have
44:03foreordained an early demise I don't
44:06think that she was born to die at that
44:10age I don't know what I don't know what
44:13happened to give her that I'm going to
44:15be the biggest star that's ever happened
44:16she really did start a whole movement I
44:18mean she was