Marilyn Monroe | Becoming Marilyn | 2
Legacy
Wondery
3.9 • 696 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The struggling starlet is exploited by the powerful executives who run Hollywood. But Marilyn begins creating what will become the iconic Marilyn look which she'll use to her advantage to climb the industry ladder. But her ascent is jeopardised when a decision from her past threatens to create a scandal… and destroy everything she’s built so far.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a warning before we start, this episode contains references to sexual violence and domestic violence. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to Legacy and the second episode of our series on Marilyn Monroe. We left you in the last episode with young Norma Jean, as she still was, escaping her chaotic |
| 0:22.8 | childhood with an early marriage at the age of just 16. |
| 0:26.4 | Norma Jean is working in a factory where she's been spotted by a photographer and a modelling |
| 0:31.0 | career beckons, partly because she's so natural in front of her camera. |
| 0:36.0 | But Norma Jean has eyes on performing for a different kind of camera. |
| 0:39.5 | As a girl, she'd lost herself in the movies. |
| 0:41.6 | Now she wants to make it in the movies. |
| 0:44.3 | She wanted to be somebody more than anybody I ever saw before in my life. |
| 0:49.6 | That's how her modelling agent described Norma Jean's drive. |
| 0:53.4 | And on 19 July, 1946, her chance to be somebody |
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