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Disgraceland is a sex simple and megawatt talent.

Her personal life, and of course her death and the mystery surrounding it, is so complex

that two episodes were needed to properly tell this story.

If you're just getting hip to this now, I suggest you hit pause and go back to the last

episode of Disgraceland, part one of the Marilyn Monroe story, where we discuss Maryland's

early days on the glamorous but

rough Hollywood party girl circuit, her massive stardom, and her split with American hero and

Yankee slugger husband Joe DiMaggio. We get into Maryland's complex marriage with Pulitzer

Prize winning playwright Arthur Miller and her disastrous turn in Miller's John Houston directed screenplay,

starring opposite her hero, Clark Gable.

A man, many believe Marilyn drove to an early grave

with her behavior on the set of what would become his last film.

That film, The Misfits, was also Marilyn Monroe's last film, and despite its notoriously

flawed production, it's a great film. Different than anything Marilyn had done prior, but no less

great than her comedic turns and some like it hot, the seven-year itch, and gentlemen prefer

blondes. All great. And that loop I played for you

at the top of the show, that wasn't from a great film. That was a preset loop for my Melotron

called Mystery Hour, MK, 1. I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to

Roses Are Red, my love, by Bobby Vinton. And why would I play you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Roses Are Red, my love, by Bobby Vinton.

And why would I play you, that specific slice of Copacabana cheese, could I afford it?

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