Latest Marilyn monroe life Podcast Episodes
Interview: Actress Erin Gavin
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 08, 2020 07:00 - 10 minutesProducer, Nina Boski interviews actress Erin Gavin who plays Marilyn Monroe. Erin was a child actress and then expanded into roles on the television series EastEnders, Still Game, and Footballers’ Wives, in addition to a role in the horror film Dread before moving from the UK to Califor...
EP6 Lonely Escape Into Dreams
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 23:45 - 35 minutesMarilyn drives to Palm Springs to meet her father with a friend in early 1951. She recalls her early years living with her Mother and her childhood experiences escaping her lonely life at the local movie theater. Norma Jeane attends a movie premiere in 1933 at the Chinese Theater with G...
#5 Norma Jeane: Discovering Truths
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 23:30 - 22 minutesCo-producers Nina, Randall, and Gary discuss the circumstances surrounding Marilyn Monroe’s birth, the sources they used to reconstruct the early attachment challenges between the child and her mother, in addition to the symptoms of mental illness experienced by her mother and grandmoth...
EP5 My Life Was Kind of Grim Part 2
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 23:15 - 28 minutesNorma Jeane is born in Los Angeles. Gladys’s best friend Grace comes to visit her after the baby’s birth and talks about the child’s future. Infant Norma Jeane is placed in foster care with the Bolenders, a couple who have rigid religious beliefs. She begins her life experiencing childh...
#4 Norma Jeane: Discovering Truths
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 23:00 - 13 minutesCo-Producers Nina, Randall, and Gary analyze Monroe’s remarks about her childhood as “grim” and her efforts to ground and rebuild her life with DiMaggio in a new home in Brentwood as a corrective experience for her unstable childhood. Gary describes the Bolender household as rigid and p...
EP4 My Life Was Kind of Grim, Part 1
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 22:45 - 31 minutesMarilyn purchases a Spanish hacienda style home in Brentwood, California in early 1962, and reflects upon her childhood. Her memories take us back in time to the 1920s as we learn the story of her mother Gladys in the years shortly before Marilyn was born. The episode introduces Gladys ...
#3 Norma Jeane: Discovering Truths
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 22:30 - 24 minutesThe series producers, Nina, Randall, and Gary investigate Monroe’s negative childhood memories and explain their use of creative license to dramatize factual events in her life. They discuss the episode’s depiction of Monroe’s psychotherapy sessions with Dr. Ralph Greenson as a window i...
EP3 I Was a Black Mark on a White Cross
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 22:15 - 32 minutesThe episode opens with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn on the set of Some Like it Hot discussing the production shoot. Marilyn reveals an early childhood memory that still haunts her. In 1960, Marilyn engages in psychotherapy with Dr. Ralph Greenson as a result of her personal crisis after the ...
#2 Norma Jeane: Discovering Truths
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 22:00 - 29 minutesThe series producers, Nina, Randall, and Gary provide insight into the Monroe-DiMaggio relationship at the end of Marilyn’s life. Gary discusses the Tampa Bay, Florida community’s reaction to the couple’s famous visit in 1961 depicted in the episode from a historical perspective. Nina a...
EP2 A Promise of Hope
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 21:30 - 24 minutesMarilyn shares her story of recovery with photographer George Barris during her final photo session at a Santa Monica beach. Marilyn heals from her agonizing experience after moving to a convalescent hospital in New York with Joe DiMaggio by her side in early 1961. She is released from ...
#1 Norma Jeane: Discovering Truths
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 21:15 - 26 minutesThe 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 i...
EP1 Please Let Me Out
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 21:00 - 37 minutesFollowing 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 ...
Prelude: Moment of Truth
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 19:30 - 27 minutesA panel of experts debunk rumors and theories about Marilyn Monroe’s 1962 death, cite the forensic evidence from the LA DA report summarizing the 1982 re-investigation, and correct lingering outlandish rumors. Check out more at behindtheicon.com
Marilyn: Behind the Icon Trailer
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 19:30 - 51 secondsMarilyn: Behind the Icon is a dramatic multi-season podcast series blending a uniquely scripted episodic story with commentary on the remarkable life of Marilyn Monroe. It’s up close, raw and real; telling her story through extensively researched historical events, including Marilyn Mon...
Prelude: Classic Cool
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 19:00 - 16 minutesAn interview with Deana Martin, the daughter of Dean Martin about her father’s relationship with Marilyn. Dean was Marilyn’s friend and her leading man in her final, unfinished film, Something’s Got to Give. Gary and Nina reminisce with Deana about the “Rat Pack”era and the Martin famil...
Prelude: Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - May 06, 2020 19:00 - 29 minutesNina Boski and Gary Vittaco-Robles speak to Michael Selsman, a former press agent employed by the Arthur P. Jacobs Company that represented Marilyn. They dispel myths about the media coverage of her death, rumors of Marilyn scheduling a press conference shortly before her death, drinkin...
The Series Opener
Marilyn: Behind the Icon - April 07, 2020 03:00 - 4 minutesProducer, Nina Boski, shares the history and the making of Marilyn: Behind the Icon and the reasons why the podcast is so relevant today. Nina was also one of the producers and the host of Goodnight Marilyn Radio in which the relationship with the other two writers and producers started...
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