That's a Creative Arc!

The world fell in love with Marilyn Monroe — but almost no one met the woman underneath. This episode goes looking for her: the mind the myth worked hardest to erase, the fears she kept hidden, and the one thing she wanted that fame made impossible. Sources: Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman  by Dan Callahan By Myself by Lauren Bacall Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters by Marilyn Monroe I...

She posed nude for fifty dollars — and the men who later built empires on that photo never paid her a cent or asked her permission. This is the story of how Marilyn Monroe engineered the most famous image in the world, and how it became both her greatest weapon and her prison. Sources: Before Marilyn: The Blue Book Modeling Years by Astrid Franse and Michelle Morgan Icon: The Life, Times, and Film...

Get to know my background in the film industry as well as some of my favorite films. 

Marilyn Monroe was one of the world's most iconic figures. But how did she go from an abandoned child to Hollywood sex symbol? Sources: Icon: The Life, Times, and Films of Marilyn Monroe Volume One 1926 to 1956 by Gary Vitacco-Robles Finding Marilyn: A Romance by David Conover Marilyn Monroe by Maurice Zolotow Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto The Marilyn Monroe Century by Bruno B...