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The making and breaking of Marilyn Monroe: Part two

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Society & Culture

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Helloooooo, legends! Welcome to part two of our Marilyn Monroe series. She was the blonde bombshell who won hearts the world over. But the story of Marilyn Monroe’s life extends far beyond glamour, wealth and fame to something much darker. Head here to check out ‘Marilyn Monroe: The Biography’ by Donald Spoto, and here for ‘Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon’ by Charles Casillo. If the content within this episode was triggering for you, call Lifeline on 13 11 14. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast. Big thanks to Dyson for making this episode possible. You can check out the Dyson Corrale hair straightener over on dyson.com.au as well as all of their other incredible hair tools. Want to support our show? We are sending air kisses, air tea, and air hugs (too far?) to anyone who clicks ‘subscribe’ on Apple (bonus hugs for anyone who leaves a five-star review, too) or ‘follow’ on Spotify. Still not enough? Well! Our hearts! See below for everything else. Subscribe to the weekly ‘ASK SHAMELESS’ newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gFbYLT Join our book club: https://www.instagram.com/theshamelessbookclub/ Check out our website: https://shamelessmediaco.com/ Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours.

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I'm a dream, got your match, stick the actor, I'm gonna see world over, but the story of Marilyn Monroe's life extends far beyond glamour, wealth and fame to something much darker.

1:15.3

Welcome to scandal from Shameless Podcast, the stories of the biggest celebrity controversies

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revisited. Hello, Zara McDonald.

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Hello, Michelle Andrews, we are back for part two and my goodness we have so much to get through today.

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We do indeed.

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Let's recap what we covered in last week's episode because again we covered a lot

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we covered 27 years of Maryland Munro's life.

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We left off in 1953.

1:48.0

Now by this point in time, Maryland Munro was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. She was going from

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