Marilyn on Marilyn (2001)
“Documentary on Marilyn’s life told by herself from the taped interviews she gave to Life magazine and French Marie Claire less than a month before she died accompanied by rare and previously unseen footage.”

As a life-long fan of Marilyn Monroe I would LOVE to one day own this documentary or even see it! I haven’t the first clue how to get hold of it.

Marilyn as you’ve never seen her
Film and audio tapes reveal intelligent young woman with her own views

“She has been portrayed for decades as a blonde bombshell who lacked the guile to deal with the manipulation of powerful men in both politics and the film business. But now a remarkably different picture of Marilyn Monroe has emerged from private tape recordings and amateur film footage of the star’s short life.

The unexpected reappearance of a 50-year-old home movie, shot in Monroe’s late teens, coupled with risqué comments made by the actress and subsequently cut from interviews, have shed a completely different light on Hollywood’s archetypal sex symbol.

Monroe’s suspicious death, alone in her apartment in 1962, and her mysterious connections with President Kennedy, his brother Bobby, Frank Sinatra and the Mafia boss Sam Giancana, have historically cast her in the role of confused victim.

But the researches of Paul Kerr, a British filmmaker, reveal the star was a streetwise and liberated woman who thought America was ‘hung up’ about sex and who hoped one day to make an ‘erotic’, European-style movie. Most poignantly, just three weeks before she died of an overdose at the age of 36, she says she felt that ‘life begins at 40’.” Read the whole article…