Marilyn: Behind the Icon
Gary Vitacco-Robles, Nina Boski and Randall Libero
4.7from 121 ratings
- 48
- Episodes
- 1
- Transcribed
- 121
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Marilyn: Behind the Icon
Marilyn: Behind the Icon is three series in one: an audio drama, an investigative series, and a discussion series. It blends a original scripted episodic story with commentary on the remarkable life of Marilyn Monroe. It’s up close, raw and real; telling her story through extensively researched historical events, including Marilyn Monroe’s own perspective in her own words. We explore her inner journey and human side as no other podcast, film or TV show has ever done before. The series portrays her personal struggles with mental illness and addiction in addition to her amazing resiliency in achieving her dreams as one the greatest movie actresses and icons in motion picture history. We begin our story with her life as a young girl named Norma Jeane—a girl desperate for a stable family and home life — 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. We’ll highlight the tragedy and pain yet celebrate the triumphs of the life, legend, and the global phenomenon known as MARILYN.
- Publisher
- Gary Vitacco-Robles, Nina Boski and Randall Libero
- Category
- health & fitness · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 29 May 2026
Latest episodes
1 of 48 episodes have a transcript.
29 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Interview with Remi Gangarossa, Filmmaker Behind New Award-winning Marilyn Monroe Fantasy Drama " Marilyn’s Dark Paradise"
21 Oct 2022
Episode 22: Special Investigation: The Final Word
7 Oct 2022
Episode 21: Special Investigation: The Truth Amongst the Lies, Part 3
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Interview with Remi Gangarossa, Filmmaker Behind New Award-winning Marilyn Monroe Fantasy Drama " Marilyn’s Dark Paradise"
Published 29 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They know that she wasn't perfect. And for people who only know Marilyn superficially, they talk about her as this perfect being that was not flawed, that had no issues, who was always the victim and who was always harmed. And again, if you're a real Maryland fan, particularly in these threads, the real historians don't like that because A, it's not accurate. And B, it takes away her humanity. Her specialty is the fact that she wasn't perfect. So to rob her of her humanity and to make her this symbol that was infallible is actually the opposite of what she wanted. She knew she wasn't perfect. She spent most of her life always trying to be a better version of herself so if she was the symbol of perfection that she wouldn't be she wouldn't have the identity that she had if you really know who she was and studied her which is what makes it very fascinating so in this time traveler movie talk to me a little bit about what the viewer will experience That's a great question. […]
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