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New multi-season podcast of Marilyn Monroe’s remarkable life adapted by the definitive, well-sourced two-volume biography ICON: The Life, Times, & Films Of Marilyn Monroe.

Harry Cohn, born July 23, 1891, terminated Marilyn Monroe from Columbia Studios after she rebuffed his advances after st...
23/07/2025

Harry Cohn, born July 23, 1891, terminated Marilyn Monroe from Columbia Studios after she rebuffed his advances after starring in the musical Ladies of the Chorus (1948).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HARRY COHN! 🥳🎉

Lola Albright, born July 20, 1925, was originally cast in the role in The Asphalt Jungle, which launched Marilyn Monroe’...
20/07/2025

Lola Albright, born July 20, 1925, was originally cast in the role in The Asphalt Jungle, which launched Marilyn Monroe’s stardom.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LOLA ALBRIGHT! 🥳🎉

Diahann Carroll, born July 17, 1935, appeared with Marilyn Monroe at President Kennedy’s birthday gala at Madison Square...
17/07/2025

Diahann Carroll, born July 17, 1935, appeared with Marilyn Monroe at President Kennedy’s birthday gala at Madison Square Garden. At the afterparty at a New York townhouse, Monroe (at left) watched Carroll perform for the crowd.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DIAHANN CARROLL! 🥳🎉

Ginger Rogers, born July 16, 1911, once attended a Sunday morning service with Monkey Business co-star Marilyn Monroe at...
16/07/2025

Ginger Rogers, born July 16, 1911, once attended a Sunday morning service with Monkey Business co-star Marilyn Monroe at a church on North Crescent Heights Boulevard in Los Angeles.

HAPPU BIRTHDAY, GINGER ROGERS! 🥳🎉

Barbara Stanwyck, born July 16, 1907, said of Clash By Night (1952) co-star Marilyn Monroe: :There was a sort of magic a...
16/07/2025

Barbara Stanwyck, born July 16, 1907, said of Clash By Night (1952) co-star Marilyn Monroe: :There was a sort of magic about her which we all recognized at once.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BARBARA STANWYCK! 🥳 🎉

Dale Robertson, born July 14, 1923, appeared with Marilyn Monroe at the Entertainers Baseball Game "Out Of This World Se...
14/07/2025

Dale Robertson, born July 14, 1923, appeared with Marilyn Monroe at the Entertainers Baseball Game "Out Of This World Series" at Gilmore Field in Hollywood, March 1952.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DALE ROBERTSON! 🥳🎉

Milton Berle, born July 12, 1908, appeared with Marilyn Monroe in Let’s Make Love. IN 1955, they appeared together at Ma...
12/07/2025

Milton Berle, born July 12, 1908, appeared with Marilyn Monroe in Let’s Make Love. IN 1955, they appeared together at Madison Square Garden’s Ringling Brothers Circus benefit for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MILTON BERLE! 🥳🎉

George Cukor, born July 7, 1899, directed Marilyn Monroe in Let’s Make Love and her last, unfinished film, Something’s G...
07/07/2025

George Cukor, born July 7, 1899, directed Marilyn Monroe in Let’s Make Love and her last, unfinished film, Something’s Got To Give. Cukor on Monroe: “She had this absolute unerring touch with comedy… she acted as if she didn’t quite understand why it was so funny. Which is what made it so funny.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE CUKOR! 🥳🎉

Nancy Davis Reagan, born July 6, 1923, attended Charles Coburn's 76th birthday celebration along with Marilyn Monroe, Co...
06/07/2025

Nancy Davis Reagan, born July 6, 1923, attended Charles Coburn's 76th birthday celebration along with Marilyn Monroe, Coburn’s co-star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NANCY DAVIS REAGAN! 🥳🎉

George Sanders, born July 3, 1906, and Marilyn Monroe often had lunch together at Fox Studio’s Café De Paris commissary ...
03/07/2025

George Sanders, born July 3, 1906, and Marilyn Monroe often had lunch together at Fox Studio’s Café De Paris commissary during the production of All About Eve (1950). He said about her, “As far as I can recall, she was humble, punctual and untemperamental.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE SANDERS! 🥳🎉

Marilyn on happiness. ☀️
27/06/2025

Marilyn on happiness. ☀️

🎉 June 25 – Happy Birthday, Billy Wilder (1906) The genius behind Some Like It Hot. He understood Marilyn's magic—and th...
25/06/2025

🎉 June 25 – Happy Birthday, Billy Wilder (1906)

The genius behind Some Like It Hot. He understood Marilyn's magic—and the complexity behind it.

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Marilyn: Behind the Icon

A brand new upcoming dramatic podcast series based on the book “ICON: The Life, Times, and Films of Marilyn Monroe” Volumes 1 and 2.

She began her life as a young girl named Norma Jeane — a girl desperate for a stable family and home life. She was a girl seeking to find her place, a girl nobody wanted, who grew up in the care of foster families and caretakers. As a young teen searching for her identity, she became determined to make something of herself and created a life born out of her dreams, imagination, and talent. Marilyn became a top cover girl model, a young starlet, a celebrated actress, an accomplished singer and dancer, a wife, aspiring mother, a producer, and ultimately, a legend — an enduring ICON.

This scripted podcast is the first of its kind as it blends a narrative format with a scripted story -- combining in depth research of historical events as told from the actress's own perspective in her own words, in addition to the views of the people around her during her life and death. The series will explore the human side of the star. We'll highlight the tragedy and pain and celebrate the resilience and triumphs of the life, legend, and global phenomenon known as Marilyn Monroe -- the ultimate ICON.

There have been many movies, TV shows, documentaries, and books about Marilyn’s life. So you may be thinking, why examine Marilyn’s life again?