>> this is for you. you do miss sometimes just being able to be completely yourself and someplace and people just know you as another human being. come on, everybody. let's give the little girl a great big welcome! ♪ ♪ >> by the time marilyn was shooting "there's no business like show business", she was a huge star. >> she is this beautiful, larger-than-life icon. ♪ after you get what you want ♪ ♪ you don't want it ♪

>> after you get what you want, you don't want it. that's a perfect number, because that's really her story, too. ♪ because after you get what you want ♪ ♪ you don't want what you ♪ >> she had the money and the lights and the costumes and the fans. ♪ i know you ♪ >> but there was something missing. >> she doesn't want to be stuck at fox making stereotype movies. >> i could have sworn you're a dramatic actress. >> that's impossible. >> what i'd like to do is to be a good actress. >> when you want that, you're not necessarily going to find it in hollywood. " >> "there's no business like show business" opens to great fanfare, but marilyn is nowhere to be seen. >> marilyn monroe didn't show up for her own movie premiere.

her mind and her life were somewhere else. >> she was incognito. as zelda zonk. zelda zonk was a beautiful woman in a black, bobbed wig sneaking away from l.a. to start a new life in new york. >> she didn't tell anybody, and nobody knew. >> marilyn walked out as a declaration of independence sdplcht she wanted control of her own destiny. >> she was saying i don't just want this anymore. i have so much more to offer the world, and i'm going to show them. >> by deciding to break the contract and go to new york, marilyn was announcing that she

belonged with the serious artists, that she belonged where real art was being made. >> she wanted more control over her career. she wanted to be able to choose her own projects and her own directors and just play different roles. >> weeks after fleeing hollywood, a small crowd is invited to an upper east side apartment to meet the new marilyn monroe. >> lawyers were there. a lot of press was there. >> they're all waiting on tender hooks to find out what marilyn is going to say, what she's going to announce and if indeed this is some new marilyn. >> she wore high heels, and then the white norel dress, and the

peace de resistance was the white ermine coat. the bulbs were going like crazy. snappy, snappy, snappy, snappy. >> marilyn announces she's setting up her own film company. marilyn monroe productions. >> setting up a production company in her name. she didn't use anything like blond goddess productions or something. everybody's going huh? >> for a woman during the hollywood studio system to really decide i'm going to step out on my own is really astounding to think about. >> at that time, that was almost unprecedented. a very feminist act but also a very powerful act. >> marilyn's new business partner is photographer milton greene. >> they were deep friends. he loved beauty, and he loved to take great pictures, and she appreciated that. he never told her to take the shirt off.

he never told her to lift her skirt. mutual respect. >> whole purpose behind this production company was so that she could throw herself into the types of roles that she had been wanting to do her whole life. >> she knew it was time not to stop being marilyn monroe but to expand everybody's ideas of who marilyn monroe could be. >> it wasn't until the next day when the newspapers came out that they realized what a disaster it had been. >> the few journalists that even bothered to write about marilyn monroe productions speculated that marilyn would be a failure. that she was a joke. win >> women didn't do that. women didn't make their own movies. are you crazy? >> it was really unfair and sexist of the press to not give her the respect, that what she

was doing was groundbreaking, that that was revolutionary. >> back in hollywood, the news reaches fox studio boss daryl zanuck. >> he hasn't known her much professional courtesy, so she left him to find out about it in the papers the next day. >> basically, he was the last to know, and he wasn't happy about that. >> he felt, i made her a star, who would she be without 20th century fox? she owes us. that's it, boom. >> he was so used to being able to treat actresses as bodies and not have to deal with them having any sense of power or control at all. >> it was ludicrous to think that this dumb blond could possibly be in charge of her own productions or choose her own directors or her own scripts. >> there is a tremendous sense that she is david against goliath, that she cannot fight 20th century fox. that she shouldn't even try. >> but marilyn has a plan.

>> tonight we'll be going first to western connecticut where photographer milton greene and his wife and his houseguest marilyn monroe will be waiting for him. >> he was far and away the most-respectedin america. if you went on murrow, you were something >> cbs had to build a tower 150 feet high on our lawn, and they were there ten days. oh, i had the best time. >> how are you doing? >> good evening, marilyn. >> it was really kind of a real power move on her part to show zanuck, here i am being interviewed. and i'm still here and not backing down. >> she was a fighter in a really big way. >> what's basic reason for this corporation? >> so i can contribute to help making good pictures. >> would it be fair to say that you got rather tired of playing the same kind of roles all the time and wanted to play

something different? >> it's not that i object to doing musicals or comedies. in fact, i rather enjoy it, but i would like to do also dramatic parts, too. >> marilyn refuses to return to fox, unless zanuck gives her the control she wants. instead, he threatens legal action. >> by this point, the anti-pathy between marilyn and daryl zanuck was very real. it ran deep, and they were both determined to win. so it was a battle of the wills and a battle to the death.

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that was something she required. being a free spirit. >> marilyn discovers the music of the era. >> jazz at the end of the war was the music of young african-american soldiers coming back, demanding their freedom. it was a breakout music, a liberating music. >> my very favorite person, and i love her as a person as well as a singer. i think she's the greatest, and that's ella fitzgerald. ♪ ♪ >> ella fitzgerald, she had a voice like an angel, and marilyn played her records all the time. >> there's a lovely picture of them sitting together where they look both kind of rough. and you can tell that they're really tight friends. >> there's a famous story that

ella fitzgerald was wanting to play the macombo club. but the owner of the macombo didn't want ella. it was mostly a whites-only club, but when they did have black performers, they had to be spectacularly beautiful. and the owner of the macombo didn't really care about ella's talent if she wasn't hot and svelte. >> marilyn read about this in the paper and got really mad. so she called the manager and said hi, this is marilyn monroe, and if you rebook ella fitzgerald,ly come every night to hear her sing. both shows. >> this was the beginning of the civil rights movement, with the can ku klux klan was out, what is marilyn monroe going to get out of that, with marilyn being that big of a friend with ella

fitzgerald? nothing, nothing. >> this speaks to her principles. >> ella did say marilyn monroe was ahead of her time, and she didn't even know it. >> while marilyn is creatively expanding, darryl zanuck is busy trying to replace her. >> he believe thad he could create another blond movie star and audiences would love her just the same. >> it's classic darryl zanuck to think that you could replace her with sharemoore, replace the body with another body of a similar type. >> the more that zanuck pushed the more marilyn came back saying that the people make me a star. so from her point of view, just go direct to the audience. who needs zanuck? >> and marilyn knows exactly how to fight back. >> the photo shoot that marilyn did for "red book" magazine was

a really pivotal moment for her. >> the choice of "red book" was a really symbolic one. it was geared at women and hadden about running some serious journalism. >> this was the exact opposite of all of the posed, heavily-made-up photos where she's looking right into the camera saying i'm here to seduce you. she was really questioning not just i think herself but how to show herself differently. >> marilyn was trying to position herself as a kind of every woman. >> it has that vulnerable, every day kind of girl look, working girl m in the subway, with her cameraman. >> in fact, marilyn never really did ride the subway, but the important thing is she saw herself as a woman who rode the subway. >> marilyn applies this new realism to her acting.

>> thing i like the most is become a real actress. i realize more and more the responsibility. and it is a responsibility. >> she wanted to be a deeper actor. and for her generation, a woman in her 20s, the best place to learn to be an actor was the actors studio. >> how would these people behave? what would motivate me to behave that way? >> lee strasburg used the method. and the method said you had to do true things. so everything had to be true. >> look, you look. >> it's an approach lee defined one time as training your imagination to respond to imaginary circumstances as though they're real. >> you went so much with the personal thing that you lost some of the things that she has. >> that was a shattering experience.

the first time i got up in front of him. and it was like he had an x ray machine in his eyes, and he just went in, now i'm sure that's the same thing that happened with marilyn. >> i think that might have been the bravest thing that she ever did. because the people in those classes, they actually looked down on hollywood stars. they saw the stars and the s starlets as very, very different than the real actors. >> lee strasburg. i think probably, he changed my life more than any other human being. >> not everyone welcomes the new marilyn. her last movie for fox is about to open. and darryl zanuck orchestrates a stunt to put her back in her place. >> the whole energy of the response to her was about

resistance to the idea that marilyn monroe could be anything other than a sex object, and certainly that what she was not was an actress. >> i think it's terrific. >> very nice. some girl. >> i think's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. >> it's the same thing as ever. same look, look at this basically upskirt shot. >> i said, what has marilyn monroe got that a million other women have and prefer not to show? >> the two marilyns were seen as somehow impossible to reconcile, as if it isn't possible to imagine that a woman could be sexual and flirty and giggle and also be serious and be driven. >> at the new york premiere of the "seven-year itch", the press is on red alert. no one can be sure which marilyn monroe they're going to see.

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estranged husband, joe dimaggio. they had separated before she left hollywood. >> here she is in the middle of her new life and she's on the arm of her soon-to-be ex-husband. she hated that, she hated the lie. >> what few would realize is that marilyn's appearance with joe is a convenient cover story. >> the summer of 1955 was a really idyllic summer for marilyn. she spent almost all of it on long island, and she finally got to do all of those summer family activities that she never had a chance to do before. >> there's one particular photograph where she's on a boat, and there's a man that we can just see from the back. nobody really know whose it is, but the general consensus is that it could have been arthur

miller. >> they were meeting because of shared people in new york. hanging out and having fun. he, of course, was married at the time, and marilyn knows how it would look for this major film star to be with a man who is still married. >> marilyn's least-favorite word "home wrecker." she had a fear of being called a home wrecker. >> it will be over a year before marilyn's relationship with arthur miller becomes public knowledge. >> marilyn monroe was someone who was attracted to intelligence. so it makes sense that she would be attracted to one of the foremost american intellectuals

at the time. >> he treated me as a human being, and he was very sensitive human being and treated me as a sensitive person also. >> it's obvious that she felt very protected by him. that he would take care of her. and it certainly looked like she adored him. >> marilyn ended the year with the same people she began the year with, and those were milton and amy greene. and she and milton still don't know if marilyn monroe productions is going to actually take off or not. they don't have any real movie deals. they don't have any real funding. >> the struggle with zanuck and fox had dragged on for a year.

and marilyn was nearly out of funds. in fact, the lawyers said they could have gone bust without making a picture. >> marilyn had no idea if this entire experiment was going to end in complete humiliation and disaster. finally, on new year's eve, marilyn receives a letter from fox. >> marilyn twirled me around and said "it's over "! it's signed, sealed and delivered. she got everything she wanted. everything. which was unheard of in 1955. >> fox offers marilyn a new contract, which gives her a higher salary, director approval and the freedom to make films through her own production company. >> it's very remarkable 20th

century fox gave marilyn the deal that she wanted and the control that she desired. >> they ended up giving in, because they knew that if they allowed her to do the roles that she wanted to do that she would occasionally do roles for them, and they could keep getting those profits. >> the magnitude of marilyn's victory is huge. >> she gets to return to hollywood in a really triumphant way. >> tell me, marilyn, is it true that you committed a list of directors you would work with? >> um. >> we only know the rumors we hear, you know. >> i would rather say that i have director approval, and that is true. >> her first film, under the new contract, will be the drama "bus stop." >> she gets approval of the

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finally, marilyn has the serious acting role she's been fighting for. >> in "bus stop", marilyn plays this kind of downed heeled singer. she has this ozark accent that she's perfected. >> we can see that marilyn monroe's physicality is being treated differently from earlier movies. there's a different quality to it. it's more realistic, less voyeuristic. >> look, you can see by this just how straight my direction is. goes just where i started. this is where i am now. and look where i'm going.

>> where? >> hollywood and vine! >> it looks like a dumb blond, talks like a dumb blond. but inside is this roiling person who's really full, not just a stereotype. >> called me an ignorant hillbilly, how do you mean that? >> i don't mean ignorant, but do you come from the ozarks. >> this was the first time that she was showing her new style of acting, developed at the actors studio. >> i've been trying to be somebody. >> much more realistic performance. a performance that tapped into a new well of emotions that we hadn't seen from marilyn monroe before. >> marilyn had learned tremendous dramatic and comedic technique. she could really get into a character and play it with great truth as well as humor. >> the character is kind of a wanma be marilyn, a failed starlet. they were trying to make her

glamorous, and she said no, this girl wouldn't be glamorous. marilyn insisted that her makeup had to be ghostly, because she never went out in the sunlight. ♪ that old black magic has me in its spell ♪ >> she canddid the hardest thin do. she chose to play it like somebody who's not really very good at what they do but trying really hard to be good. that's very hard to accomplish, and to have it be adorable and funny. >> i should stay away. >> it's very complex what she's doing. it's multi-layered. ♪ i should stay away ♪ ♪ but what can i do ♪ ♪ i hear your name ♪ ♪ and i'm aflame ♪

>> there's a real kind of aching loneliness at the center of her performance in the middle of this love story. >> the moment the film is running in the camera, marilyn acts. i think she is one of the most extraordinary actresses that ever lived. >> a lot of people said that she really deserved an academy award nomination for that role. >> she was awfully good in "bus stop." awfully good. >> marilyn doesn't slow down. she's on to the next project. >> she still had dreams of her own production company, so marilyn and milton settled on purchasing the rights to a play that was being performed by lawrence olivier in england. she loved the idea of working

with lawrence olivier. >> he brought with him a level of gravitas, and by him agreeing to be in a movie with her, it show t showed that she was being taken seriously as an actress. >> marilyn's new adventure put as recently divorced arthur miller in the spotlight. >> marilyn is going to england to film "the prince and the show girl", alfred wants to be with her and applies for a passport and runs against a wall. >> have you been a member of the communist party? >> arthur miller was subpoenaed by the u.s. government to appear before the house oni un-america activities committee. in hollywood, this was ruining a lot of people by causing people to name names. >> have you a member of the communist party? >> are you now, or have you ever

been a member of the communist party? >> she anxiously waits even as he refuses to name names. >> the story about arthur miller's defiance is usually told in terms of his political courage, and marilyn is there standing by her man. according to people who knew both miller and marilyn at the time, it was marilyn who urged miller to stand up to them. she hated mccarthyism and everything that it stood for. >> we need to really think about it as somebody who has principles and who is making her own statement about a very toxic political and cultural climate. >> emerging from the hearing, miller shocks the press. >> mr. miller, why did you file an application for a passport? >> i wanted to go to england. >> for what reason? >> you guess. >> we'd like --

>> i want to be with the woman who's going to be my wife. >> you mean marilyn monroe? >> that's correct. mr. he hadn't asked her to marry him. she was a little taken aback. >> it's hard to not see it as cynical given the pressures that he was under at the time and marilyn's status as america's sweetheart. maybe arthur was using his relationship with marilyn as a way to whitewash himself. >> before marilyn has time to take it in, the press descends on her manhattan apartment. >> have you been engaged long in. >> no, just a few day. >> you see her against the wall, and she looks so fragile and flustered. yes, she's someone who knows how to work the press, but you can still see the cracks of "this is really overwhelming, and i'm trying to make sense of this huge change in my life."

>> when are you planning on having children in. >> i'm not married yet, dear. >> only two week later, marilyn and arthur are married. >> she wore my wedding veil. and what i did, my veil was white. so i dumped it in tea. she loved it. >> she thought she was getting the final thing she wanted, which was a complete and happy family. but she doesn't realize that she's heading into a storm, that's what's coming next.

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everything that she'd been fighting for for a decade, that she's going to get all of that credibility that she wanted. who was more credible than sir lawrence olivier? >> i said i would only do it with him. i would only consider doing it with him. >> why? >> because i would go to see. >> he had theatrical respectability and the reputation of a great actor. she was a household name. they're opposite whose are going to get together to make a whole. >> in the romantic comedy, marilyn plays an american show girl, opposite olivier's european prince. olivier also directs. >> it's just my stage name, and my dad was a marine, see?

>> at the beginning, obviously, she was nervous. needs time to settle in, with not only the crew but with the cast. >> marilyn had come into olivier's territory in every sense. >> there's a big age difference between them. and he just quite blatantly does not see her as a creative equal. >> as a method actor, marilyn insist on real caviar and real champagne for every take. >> she didn't want to be an automatic "roll'em", and she does the scene. she wanted to have a motivation. >> but olivier derides her techniques. >> he told her to stop thinking and just to be sexy.

>> it was like he was being zanuck, pushing her right back to where she started from. >> i imagine for her it was very frustrating and heartbreaking to deal with someone's scorn when you were hoping they could support you in the role. >> he's treating this woman, 30 years old, in charge of her own company, as a child. and she responds in kind. >> she said that she started being bad with him. and what that mean was that she was late, and she was obstructive. she was a pain. she knew exactly what she was doing. it was how she could push back against them. >> one day we waited for a very long time. and sir lawrence made her apologize to the whole crew. for keeping them waiting so long. >> excuse me. >> but once she was in front of the camera, she was magic.

>> i need it for my heart. it's kind of beating down here. >> i'm so sorry. >> it's all right, it's not your fault. if i had known this was all that was going to happen, i need'nt have been nervous. >> when you watch the movie, i think she's much better than he is in it. he comes off stilted, and she is always luminous. >> hey, listen. there's something to this stuff. >> she upstages him into the heavens. it's one of her loveliest, sweetest, most effective performances. and she steals it from him. >> i think you have had enough. >> i think so too. >> behind the scenes, the conflict with yolivier is splintering her relationship with her friend and co-producer, milton green. >> he would get up every day, go

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during the making of "prince and the show girl", things were not going well for the production company or for the

partners. >> when marilyn views the first cut of the film, she thinks it's slow and tedious. she blames co-producer milton green. >> she decided that she was going to take control of the production herself. >> she didn't know what to do with milton. she loved him. but she didn't know what to do with him. she was embarrassed. >> marilyn had one last meeting with milton greene and it was heartbreaking. they were both sobbing. >> it was very disheartening for him. because he thought they were going to make wonderful movies together. these two human beings loved movies. >> when the film premieres in new york, milton is nowhere to be seen. >> it was over. we had a life to live.

>> marilyn was, as her story always shows, pretty clearly someone who looks forward rather than back. >> in the summer of 1957, marilyn's only concern is her family. >> she embraced her marriage in a way that she'd never done before. >> my father was shooting a lot during that period. those photographs of marilyn on the beach. >> very playful. she adored him. >> she discovers that she's pregnant. and she's ecstatic about it. >> she wanted to be a mom. i think she wanted to love a baby. i think she wanted to move forward with her life out of just being this poster girl and being a woman who chooses to be a mother, chooses a family. >> she loved children. i mean, the way she treated us,

i think she would have been a great mother. >> but on august 1st, 1957, marilyn collapses and is rushed to a manhattan hospital. >> she not only lost her baby, she almost lost her own life. >> she's released from the hospital to a whole battery of reporters and media. >> she was very, very ill indeed and yet she somehow had to turn it on for the cameras. >> there's something so predatory feeling about paparazzi. >> she was that famous, that you would expect that attention, but it's still really sad that it had to be there in her darkest moments. >> it is just so heartbreaking to see someone who's really trying to put on a brave face with this tremendously painful moment that leads her to feel

like a failure. because in the 1950s, you were still considered to be not fully fulfilled unless you had a child. >> on the heels of her loss, marilyn faces another struggle. >> they needed money, so it's time for her to return to work. >> taking time out from a high-profile career remains risky today, and it was even riskier in the '50s. there was always the chance that her popularity was going to pass her by, that she would hit an expiration date. >> in march 1958, an intriguing new project lands on marilyn's desk. >> she absolutely knew a good script when she read one, and particularly a very funny script. she had a sense of what was going to be box office gold, and she knew that she could perform

that role. >> "some like it hot" remains one of her most famous performances. >> any one can play a dits, but to play one that you love, that, to me, takes a talent that cannot be taught of the and she had that? spades. ♪ don't love nobody ♪ >> there was no one else like her. and the moment you put her in front of the camera, it's like watching magic. ♪ runnin' wild ♪ >> next, on the final episode of "reframed -- marilyn monroe". >> she does not feel understood by her husband. >> in the middle of production, marilyn takes off. she had a date with the president who's having a big birthday party. and she was to sing "happy

birthday." >> i think she was playing with him. but it was certainly brave. >> marilyn said, you know, splish splash, this would make some interesting pictures. >> stripping down and being actually naked. it's really pushing the envelope. \ it's hard to know where to start if you don't start with the truth. i was in debt. i got so far behind in rent, four weeks, tom kelley asked me to pose. >> it was an offer for artistic shots, which was a euphemism for nude photographs. >> modeling in the nude will pay double what regular modeling will. >> our world is a business of women's bodies, and she realized this is a transaction.