life as tragedy. and in particular the last few years. as being the inevitable fall of the great star. that wasn't true. >> can we start again? >> she had agency. she was hungry for more creative challenges. >> she had a lot of strength. along with her vulnerability. >> she stood up to the old hollywood guard. she said i'm not going take it anymore. >> up until the day she died, she was a fighter. of course her early death is a tragedy. that doesn't over write everything she achieved up until that time. >> she became the biggest movie star in the world. and she remains one of the most famous and instantly recognizable women in history. >> excited fans gather on a san diego beach. to watch marilyn monroe shoot her first film. in two years. >> directs her in some like it hot. which is arguably her greatest role. it's incredible what she does in that. >> the role of sugar cane is very much an type of a dumb blond. on paper. >> i come from a musical family. >> where did your father conduct? 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>> the charts had changed. the relationship. >> he's doing rewrites on the set. she hugely resented the way she characterized the character. seemed to change from being a celebration of everything that he loved about her. to a parody. that showed the contempt he started to form for his wife. >> we're all dying aren't we. all the husbands and wives. >> she's not very bright. she's just a kind of body. who runs around. hugging trees and hugging men. >> it's more than a professional disappointment. it's a personal one. she doesn't feel seen or understood by her husband. the person supposed to know her best. >> i want to show you. i changed a few things. >> there's a scene there's a locker room door open and it has pictures from early in her career. and what the script makes marilyn do is shut the door on the pictures. >> how do you like it? don't look at those. it's a joke. >> her husband has her saying she's a joke. >> let's have lots of drinks. >> when everything that she had been fighting for was specifically to be taken seriously. >> marilyn becomes frustrated with this role. her addiction to pills and alcohol. it's becoming a problem on the set. >> she was always on the sleeping pills at night. i don't know what the pills were to wake up. and it was getting worse and worse. >> everyone making the movie falls into two camps when around marilyn. one around arthur. eventually he moves out of her suite to another suite. >> the first time i think i knew the relationship with marilyn and arthur was difficult was when arthur said to me one day, can i come in the car with you and john? and going home can i come back in the car. i thought well, they come at different times. true. but it was every day. >> miller seems to have been mining their lives together for a loft material. and some of the characters are speaking for him. >> she's crazy. they're all crazy. try not to believe it. because you need them. >> talking about women as them and men as you. >> struggle. you build. you try. you turn yourself inside out for them. but it's never enough. >> she said to think arthur did this to me. that the point the major became irretrievably over. >> she'd experienced these miscarriages during her marriage to arthur. and now her third marriage had ended. in divorce. and it was a very bleak period. >> after the divorce, she has a very bad nervous break down. her psychiatrist felt that she needed to be put in the hospital. to be revitalized. and taken off drugs. >> so marilyn voluntarily went to the hospital thinking that she was getting some therapy. and some care. >> imagine being in the early 60s, you are a woman. one of the most famous and recognizable people on the planet. >> i think her decision to ask for help shows a tremendous strength in self-awareness within her. the problem of course is sometimes the help you get is not the hoelp you need. >> she checks in. and she was basically locked in to a violent psychiatric ward. she was constrained against her will for three days. treated as a violent patient. >> she's locked in to a room. and she yells and screams. >> it was such a heros experience for her. she was so isolated. so alone. >> all of that was compounded by her very real fear that her mother's mental illness was inheritable and she might have it as well. >> this made it seem like her worst nightmare was coming true. and she would do anything to get out. >> early in her career she had played a psychotic babysitter of all things. when the episode happened, it took her back to that performance. >> she said she actually put on a show for them. >> you don't want to do that. >> how do you know my name. >> she thought of the scene she filmed for don't bother to knock. she had got a piece of glass. and threatened to harm herself. >> give it to me. >> they expected her to be crazy. she acted crazy. so that she could get their attention and get them to listen to her. >> you're goin to the hospital now. here in new york. we'll help you. >> eventually she gets into a hospital that had a drug withdrawal clinic. >> after three weeks there, marilyn leaves. marilyn was the fighter. she fell and got up again. and she kept dusting herself off and starting over again. get 2.49% apr financing on the 2022 gx 460. ♪ ♪ ♪ at lowe's, you never have to be finished with your finishing touches. with aisles of ways to refresh and restyle. for whatever style you're feeling. at prices you're really feelin. shop the lowe's bath style & save event now in-store and online. 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[sound of heartbeat on ultrasound] ♪ marilyn really wanted to settle down and plant roots. she set out and found this home. in brent wood. this was like a new beginning for her. it was a fresh start. it was a modest home for a movie star. and it had an inscription on the floor of the entrance that said this is my journey's end. >> it's very unusual. even at that point for a woman herself to buy a home alone. she is really showing a good deal of independence by buying that home. >> it's been over a year since marilyn wrapped her last film. when fox calls her back to set. >> marilyn monroe owed them a movie. she signed up to be the lead in a comedy called something's got to give. >> this is her first mature role. and marilyn is playing someone who has responsibility for someone else. she's a mother. >> come here. >> why? >> i want to hug you. >> you do see a maternal aspect. completely unexpected. >> it naturally brings a certain softness. you can't help but wonder what could have been. i'm sure i'm not the only person to have thought that while watching the scenes. >> going into the movie she wasn't in the best of health. at all. she had colds and sinus and dependent on prescribed medication. >> marilyn was at a really intriguing turning point. she is still hungry for more creative fulfillment. but she's also struggling with mental health issues that make it very difficult for her to show up on time. >> the studio doctor had wanted the film production to be delayed a bit. but 20th century fox going through big problems at the time with their own finances. they just wanted it over and done with. >> the special event of the year. a first in television history. >> during the 1960s, the film studios were really competing with the rise in popularity of television. and one way to get people into the movie theater was to produce these huge big budget epics. with incredible costume and so much luxury. you had to see it on the big screen possible. and by the time that something's got to give was being made they were working on one of the biggest productions ever. which was starring elizabeth taylor. >> marilyn and taylor has been set up as rivals 6789 she was getting paid ten times what marilyn monroe was getting paid. >> it's a disaster shoot. she's sick. they have to tear down a bunch of very expensive sets and rebuild them in rome. >> i feel a little weak. thank you. >> as a result they had to shut down all production except for that and something's got to give. and the financial well being of the studio was effectively on marilyn's shoulders. >> are you going to stay long? >> i don't know yet. would you like me to? >> in the middle of production, marilyn takes off. to new york. >> she had a date with the president. he was having a big birthday party. >> the president is winding up his new york day here at madison square garden. a prebirthday celebration. >> a lot of very famous performers were singing. and dancing. she asked permission from the studio to go off. but because of the production delays the studio said she couldn't go. >> she was furious. in her view, a star of her stature had the right to say she was going to do this for a couple days and they had to deal with it. >> marilyn has spent weeks rehearsing for the event. >> it was a really big deal. and she prepared so much for that brief performance. >> marilyn had an association with president kennedy. and links together politics and hollywood. and the presidency was very much a hollywood presidency. >> on this occasion of your birthday. this lovelily day is not only -- >> i think the whole world knew there was a relationship between marilyn monroe and president of the united states. it was show business. and it was secretive. >> mr. president, marilyn monroe. >> and that night, the whole madison square garden sat there in awe. waiting for this princess of the motion picture industry. and a president. my foundation doesn't settle... and neither do i. age perfect 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my god. >> i was honored when they asked me to appear at madison square garden. i was a little worried about my voice. it came out. still i didn't know this tune. i can't forget the words. happy birthday. it's always been happy birthday. ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ ♪ happy birthday mr. president ♪ >> it's very erotic. and the incredibly powerful over sexuality in the early 1960s. would be seen by a many many people as being utterly inappropriate. truly inappropriate. >> that song is very deliberately a performance. marilyn performing marilyn. i definitely think marilyn was trying to send a message. to the powers that be at 20th century fox. her performance was a way of highlighting her own power. in a way that says i don't need you. you guys need me. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> when she sang happy birthday, i remember watching that. and being very amused by it. i think she was playing with him. but it was certainly brave. >> i can now retire from politics after having had happy birthday sung to me in such a sweet wholesome way. >> the standard take on the after math is that jfk was publicly embarrassed. and he dumped her. the story continues. she was heartbroken. calling him every five seconds. and falling apart. but her friends at the time said that she absolutely wasn't. she wasn't in love with him. and she wasn't fore lorn. but we insist on seeing marilyn as a passive victim of the men around her. nobody can seem to imagine a different version of the story. that she was a 36 year-old woman who clearly had a very pragmatic attitude to sex. and she could be getting a kick out of sleeping with the most powerful man in the world. but marilyn's trip spells disaster. for her relationship with fox. the studio files a breech of contract. against her. >> i think there's a sense that going to madison square garden was her resting too much control from the studio. instead of sitting back and doing what she was told. >> what happens 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knew more about photograph ri than photographers who photographed her. just as i'm driving in she's about to drive out in a convertible. she says hop in. and hands me a bottle of alcohol. i popped the cork. she takes it. full bottle. like that. let me see the pictures. she takes the pictures and is holding them up to the street lights. >> then she takes out a pair of painting sheers and says -- my heart drops. she looks at more. zip. cuts right through the image. all the pieces she's cutting are going on the floor of the car. i'm grabbing them. putting them back. then i'm looking over and i'm saying, she's pretty good editing. that's how marilyn monroe ed mitt itted my color pictures. three survived. looking at a street light. >> i was afraid you'd misunderstand about that. >> on the set of something's got to give. marilyn's relationship with the studio goes from bad to worse. >> can we start again? >> they say she's uncooperative and caused costly delays and tried to dismiss her as a 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police officers there, a few reporters. only one or two photographers. the word hadn't gotten out yet. i had a camera with me, but i didn't know what to photograph. you photograph somebody alive, and now they're dead. >> it appears to be one of nature's strange turns, young women, the world at their feet, often feel unloved, inadequate. >> i can remember the headlines. this was massive, marilyn is dead. and i remember they showed the bed they found her in. >> after she died, there was this kind of glamorizing of her dead body and the sexualization of her corpse to a really extreme degree. >> she was face-down, covered only bare sheet, her hand on the phone. >> it's like this woman was never allowed to just be a human being. she had to be an object of desire for everyone and everything, even in death. >> a simple chapel saw only 23 of marilyn monroe's closest friends and acquaintances inside. >> there's this sort of performative memorial that happens, in which everyone is then so sad and how could it have happened? and yet no one in our culture is able to look inward and say, oh, i was part of the problem. >> the official cause of death is barbituate overdose. >> we thought she was murdered. everybody thought she was murdered. everybody. all kinds of conspiracy theory came out. >> this is the '60s, we don't believe it because we don't believe what they tell us. >> it was a mistake. nobody -- i mean, don't go there. nobody -- the cubans weren't there. the kennedys weren't there. everybody that was supposed to kill her didn't happen. it was a mistake. she took the damn sleeping pills. she forgot she took them so they took more. that's how it happens. ♪ >> a month before her death, marilyn met her friend, photographer george barris, for a photo shoot. >> they're very beautiful. i love these. >> these pictures reflect the old marilyn, someone you could talk to, someone who is accessible. it's like you're seeing her soul in a way. she's just looking right at the camera and, you know, it's like she's looking at you. >> marilyn monroe, the person, is gone. the image is not gone and it will never be gone. her legacy is defined more by the images we see of her, by her career, than anything else, despite the tragedies of her life. she's up there as fresh and new and wonderful as she ever was. >> marilyn monroe is a mirror for people's ideas about women's sexuality and women's power, about whether beautiful women can be intelligent, whether women have agency in their own careers. how are they to be treated as equals? how are they to be respected? those are questions that most women, if not all women, are still struggling with. and marilyn monroe is the symbol of all of that. >> if she were alive today, i think she would have been on the front lines with a lot of activists and organizers, and she would have become a very big voice in the me too movement. >> she was so limited by the public's gaze of who she really was and what she was capable of, but she 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