Following an extremely difficult year of two challenging film productions, her divorce from Arthur Miller, a suicide attempt and the death of Clark Gable, Marilyn is admitted to two psychiatric hospitals in 1961. It is a time of deep personal challenge for Marilyn when she is forced to confront her greatest fears. She fights for her own sanity amidst harrowing conditions at the facility. Her attempts to escape are stopped until an unexpected friend comes back into her life to rescue her.
Men are climbing to the moon, but they don’t seem interested in the beating human heart.
Marilyn Monroe
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Narrator
Mental health expert
Joe DiMaggio
Nurse / Dr. Kris
Young female patient
Guard
Brad Hyland
Gary Vitacco-Robles
Ron Hayden
Kristina Martin
Mie Marie Holland
Oscar Vitacco-Robles
Norma Jeane: Discovering Truths
COMPANION PODCAST
The Marilyn: Behind the Icon producers Nina Boski, Randall Libero and Gary Vitacco-Robles talk about their perspective on developing this dramatic series from a historical and factual approach. Gary offers reasons why his commentary regarding Marilyn Monroe’s mental health perspective is important to tell Marilyn’s story accurately. They explore Marilyn’s goals to become an actress, wife, and mother, her personal challenges and crises related to intergenerational mental illness in her family, and her own childhood trauma. The co-writers reflect upon the responsibility of ethical research, legitimate sources and new source material unearthed by recent auctions.
