MARILYN MONROE The End of INNOCENCE

A NEW DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES THE LIFE AND MYSTERIOUS LAST DAYS OF THE HOLLYWOOD ICON

- Lisa Chambers

Her sparkling smile. That bombshell figure. For a brief period from 1948 until her untimely death in 1962, Marilyn Monroe seduced the world. "There was something so vulnerable [about her]," recalled The Misfits director John Huston, "something you felt that could be easily destroyed." It turned out he was right.

A new Netflix documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, delves into the star's life, death and mystique through never-before-heard recordings. "There's a mystery about the story. Sex and politics. The Kennedy brothers. The Cuban Revolution," biographer Anthony Summers says. There's also the seemingly unjust end to her tale, that three months after singing "Happy Birthday" to John F. Kennedy, she was found dead of an overdose of sleeping pills. Was it suicide, an accident or something more nefarious? "