The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes

Name: The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 27, 2022
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 38
Cast: Arthur Miller, CJ Johnson, Jane Russell, Joe DiMaggio, John F. Kennedy

2022

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): April 27, 2022 | TV-MA

Starring: Arthur Miller, CJ Johnson, Jane Russell, Joe DiMaggio, John F. Kennedy, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Shelagh McLeod, Tom Ewell

Summary: Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe's tragic death spawned conspiracies and rumors for decades, often overshadowing her talent and shrewdness. By piecing together her final weeks, days and hours through previously unheard recordings of those who knew her best, this feature illuminates more of her glamorous, complicated life, and offers a newHollywood icon Marilyn Monroe's tragic death spawned conspiracies and rumors for decades, often overshadowing her talent and shrewdness. By piecing together her final weeks, days and hours through previously unheard recordings of those who knew her best, this feature illuminates more of her glamorous, complicated life, and offers a new perspective on that fateful night.… Expand

Director: Emma Cooper

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 101 min

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Owen Gleiberman

May 10, 2022

This is dark, squalid, squinting-through-the-keyhole stuff, and it can make a film like The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe sound like a guilty-pleasure piece of true-crime trash, one of those glorified tabloid-TV exposés with a patina of investigative credibility. In fact, it’s a very good film. Read full review

Slashfilm Chris Evangelista

Apr 25, 2022

"The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe" too often feels like it's merely scratching the surface and not trying to go much deeper. While I understand that the research of Anthony Summers is what helped shape this doc, Summers himself is far too present here, to the point where the documentary begins to feel more about him writing the book than it is about Monroe. Read full review

David Rooney

Apr 25, 2022

The film is affecting, because it outlines the saddening end of an adored American icon. But for all its promises of unheard insights, it seldom goes much deeper than an E! True Hollywood Story. Read full review

Fran Hoepfner

Apr 25, 2022

Given how much of the new material on Monroe is audio-based, one is left wondering why a project like this wouldn’t work better as a podcast. There is little that’s visually compelling about Cooper’s work, the type of investigation perhaps best listened to in the background of another activity. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Apr 27, 2022

Watching The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe serves as a reminder, to paraphrase Elton John’s musical tribute, that her candle burned out long before the exploitation of her ever did. Read full review

The Playlist Christian Gallichio

Apr 29, 2022

The biographical and fictional afterlives of Monroe are particularly interesting, and probably tell us more about the authors who choose to dedicate their lives to researching her than anything new about Monroe, herself. One wishes that Cooper, and Summers, would’ve realized this. Read full review

Noel Murray

Apr 29, 2022

This movie is mostly just another brisk recounting of a much-scrutinized actor’s tragic life, coupled with some unconvincing and often confusing coverage of the conspiracy theories surrounding Monroe’s death. The results feel tawdry and shallow. Read full review

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TheBride

Apr 27, 2022

This is a riveting and well-produced documentary of a fascinating story. The incredible thing is that it's a real story. I would say that it was covered up because of her connection with the Kennedy Brothers." Only half of the reality. Clearly (from these accounts) Marilyn Monroe was dangledThis is a riveting and well-produced documentary of a fascinating story. The incredible thing is that it's a real story. I would say that it was covered up because of her connection with the Kennedy Brothers." Only half of the reality. Clearly (from these accounts) Marilyn Monroe was dangled as an unwitting conduit to the highest offices of the US Government by the Soviets during the cold war. This connection was known by a very anti-communist FBI whose machine forced the Kennedy brothers to sever ties rapidly and cleanly. Marilyn--an ideal candidate to be dangled--was very insecure, emotionally susceptible, and in need of being needed, and she was unable to sustain the emotional quagmire she had gotten herself into. A last attempt on Robert Kennedy's part to try to intervene into her emotional break was unsuccessful. In times like this there is no recourse but to clean up a horrid mess that ensued. It happens more than we want to know. Kudos for this investigative reporter to put this story straight, though he dances too lightly around the Soviet involvement, mostly because he can't puncture that sphere. So, there it is. "She killed herself either intentionally or accidentally. This case is closed." That is true.… Expand

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JLuis_001

May 23, 2022

This is nothing more than a dull recounting that only feeds an exhausted myth.

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