All the times Netflix's 'The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes,' which traces the movie star's lows leading up to her shocking death in 1962, kept breaking our hearts
While most of the subject matter is well-trod ground , the dichotomy between how the world saw the actress and what her experience of superstardom actually was never fails to leave a haunting impression.
John Huston, who directed Monroe in one of her first films, 1950's "Asphalt Jungle," and her last finished movie, 1961's "The Misfits," recalled meeting the"very fresh, very attractive, rather timid, shy" young woman for the first time at her audition, where she "read her lines beautifully." DiMaggio, who had a son with his first wife, never remarried and his attorney Morris Engelberg, who was among those at his bedside when he died in 1999,Monroe never named names, but she was sexually abused at some point during her girlhood, when she lived in more than 10 foster homes and spent time in an orphanage while her mother was in and out of psychiatric hospitals. She never knew her father , and that absence haunted her throughout her life.
In London while Monroe was directed by Laurence Olivier in 1957's "The Prince and the Showgirl," she saw some of Miller's notes lying around and was devastated to read some very disparaging words about"how disappointed" he was by his wife and that he had thought she was"some kind of angel," but he was wrong.
Huston said he found out over the course of the film what the problem was, and"I remember saying to Miller one day," he recalled,"I said, you know, that if she went on at the rate that she was going, she'd be in an institution in two or three years, or dead. And I said anyone who allows her to take a drug ought to be shot."and died 11 days later, on Nov. 16, 1960.
But"the General" Monroe referred to was believed to be U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, John's younger brother and a married father of 10 with one on the way when he was assassinated in 1968. "She was hurt, terribly hurt when she was told directly never to call or contact again, Robert or John," her friend Arthur James told Summers."That was an order. Jack didn't contact her, Bob did. And that's what killed her."According to the original account of Monroe's final hours, her housekeeper Eunice Murray recalled the actress retiring to her bedroom at 8 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1962. At around 3 a.m.
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