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Done & Dunne

69. Mirrorball | Marilyn Monroe, Summer of 1962

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7629 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

We are exploring the summer of 1962 for Marilyn Monroe - with multiple plotlines developing. A studio looking to smear her, a doctor and housekeeper with questionable practices, and a few high-level summer romances bring a very complicated summer for Marilyn, whichever biographer you follow. Recommended Sources: Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, by Anthony Summers (Amazon) Marilyn Monroe: The Biography, by Donald Spoto (Amazon) Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept Secrets, by James Spada (Amazon) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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ahead and get involved. Grab a Coke, drink it in. Welcome to Dunn and Dunn. I'm Alicia,

0:50.9

your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear

0:56.2

and everything's connected. We are back today investigating the final summer of the life of

1:03.2

Marilyn Monroe, the summer of 1962, from her return from the infamous, happy birthday Madison

1:10.6

Square Garden performance, up into the end of July.

1:15.2

Before we begin our episode today, I have a spyglass right here to give some enormous thanks

1:21.4

to our most recent supporters at patreon.com slash done and done. So grateful for you, D.S. Christian B and Paula B.

1:31.1

Holy cats. Thank you for joining the done and done community over on Patreon. So delighted to

1:38.7

have you there. And so delighted to have you. Thanks for tuning in to listen to today's episode. My goodness, y'all,

1:48.0

for as many contradictions as there are for the reasons of Marilyn Monroe's death, August 4,

1:55.2

1962, there are just as many contradictions and conflicting interpretations of Maryland's last summer.

2:05.2

As the fullness of time continues and blooms, so to speak, many more people involved in her life have

2:12.1

revealed more through the years, and the more that folks do reveal, even within their own, whatever colored

2:20.8

shade of memory they're revealing it from, sometimes piecing together, Maryland's last few

2:28.3

months can be like kind of assembling a mirror ball that has already been broken into a thousand pieces.

2:36.0

I find finding what is the real truth, the facts, can sometimes be challenging.

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