Supposedly new tapes spliced w old footage devolve into cheesy gossip Having grown up in LA I enjoyed the old footage of the monster city , especially the stuff from the 40s before they torn down half the great buildings and replaced them w cheap , soulless crap. The voice overlay has a very creepy, forbidding sound score behind it, hovering over each clip as though the monster of Marilyns childhood abuse was about to jump out at any time. Eventually, you get the idea there was a monster, but it was in the form of rich, powerful men who she threw herself at... OH , as if THAT has never happened before. LOL..... Problem is , this was pre woke, so the kind of sexual harassment we all had assumed was legal in Hollywood hadn't been monetized by greedy lawyers yet. Maryily even had a line in a movie , when they pointed out the big producer she was going to have to "entertain" , she quipped " why do they always have to look like little rabbits ?"
Another problem is that whenever you hear any gossip about dead people regarding their sex lives , you have to take it with about a half ton of salt. This piece is no different, actors lip synching w alleged tapes of people who knew Marilyn talking about her , mostly with hearsay ,opinion and conjecture . The film maker seems to want to make many of the men in her life especially the Kennedys look as sleazy as possible , and he succeeds . However , there are two sides to every story, and if the major players were alive today I bet they would give us an earful about how inaccurate it all is.
The worst is where they try to convince us that this poor gal , hooked on pills by a studio that had no business turning doctors into puppets for them, was supposedly rubbed out because she "knew too much" . In any case, she was a high risk as we all were when barbiturates were used , w their high LD 50, for sleep and ambien hadn't been invented yet. She wasn't ever considered a very good actress, and her amazing looks were beginning to fade, so it's surprising that she is actually far more famous now than she was at the time of her death.