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>> 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 wanted ♪ >> 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 were a dramatic actress. >> i think 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 already 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 anything, and nobody knew. >> marilyn walked out as a declaration of independence. >> she wanted control of her own destiny. >> she was saying, i don't want just 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. >> everybody was having a good time. drinks, hors d'oeuvres. lawyers were there. a lot of press was there.

>> they're all waiting on tenterhooks 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 norell dress, and the piece 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. >> women didn't do that. women didn't make their own movies. are you crazy? >> it was really unfair and very 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 darryl zanuck. >> he hadn't shown 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 blonde 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 her friend and house guest marilyn monroe will be waiting for us. >> edward r. murrow was far and away the most respected journalist in america. if you went on murrow, you were there to talk about something serious. >> 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 do you do, mr. murrow? >> good evening, marilyn. >> it was kind of a real

power move on her part to show zanuck, here i am being interviewed. i'm still here, and i'm not backing down. >> she was a fighter in a really big way. >> what's basic reason for this corporation? >> primarily to 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 antipathy between marilyn and darryl zanuck was very real. it ran deep, and they were both determined to win.

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>> our first time we met marilyn, i must have been about 16 years old. we had this wonderful day at the met. she was so enthusiastic to learn about art and literature. in new york, she could be herself a little bit more. >> it gave her more freedom, and 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 mocombo club. but the owner of the mocombo didn't want ella. it was mostly a whites-only club, but when it did have black performers, they had to be spectacularly beautiful. and the owner of the mocombo didn't really care about ella's immense talent if she wasn't, you know, hot and svelte. >> marilyn read this in the paper. she got very annoyed. so she called the manager and said, "hi, this is marilyn monroe. and if you rebook ella fitzgerald, i will come every night to hear her sing, both

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>> 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.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 starlets as very, very different than the real actors. >> lee strasburg. i think probably he changed my life more than any other human being.

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>> 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 a 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

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>> 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 director, joshua logan, and she gets to really become involved with creating the character that she's going to play in this film. >> marilyn had got to portray a role that she really wanted to do, something that would stretch her as an actress. but now she had to prove that she actually had what it takes. >> she really was going to be on trial in front of everybody as for twice the goodness, twice the flavor, and twice the choice. sirloin salisbury steak and all-natural salmon. perfect for lunch or dinner. only at ihop. download the app and earn free

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>> 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! >> looks like a dumb blonde, talks like a dumb blonde. but inside is this roiling person who's really full, not just a stereotype. >> he called me an ignorant hillbilly, how do you like that? >> i don't mean ignorant, but you do 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 wanna-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 this woman never went out in the sunlight. ♪ that old black magic has me in its spell ♪ >> she did the hardest thing to do. she chose to play it like somebody who is not very good at what they do, but trying really hard to be good. ♪ those eyes ♪ 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 i think by him agreeing to be in a movie with her, it showed that she was being taken seriously as an actress. >> marilyn's new adventure puts as recently divorced arthur miller in the spotlight. >> marilyn is going to england to film "the prince and the show girl," arthur miller wants to accompany her, be with her, and applies for a passport and runs against a wall. >> are you a member of the communist party or have you ever been a member of the communist party? >> arthur miller was subpoenaed by the u.s. government to appear

before huaac, the house on unamerican activities committee. in hollywood, this was ruining a lot of careers by forcing people to name names of their fellow communist or communist sympathizers that they had known or knew. >> are you a member of the communist party or have you ever been 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 wanted to be with the woman who is going to be my wife. >> you mean marilyn monroe? >> that's correct. >> he hadn't asked her to marry him. she was a little taken aback. hearing that announcement. >> it's hard to not see it as somewhat 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?

>> 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 have some children? >> 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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and everyone knew they meant the american film star with the fabulous shape and the wiggly walk. >> marilyn arrived in england to produce and star in her production company's first film. >> "the prince and the show girl" was going to finally demonstrate everything that she had been fighting for for a decade. that she was 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 sir lawrence and myself in a movie. >> 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? my real name is elsie stoltenberg. >> indeed. >> 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. >> it's gotten quite warm out, hasn't it? >> as a method actor, marilyn insists 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. >> yes, yes, my dear fellow, you can speak freely, there's no one here. >> but olivier derides her techniques. >> he told her to stop thinking and just to be sexy. >> it was like he was being a british zanuck, pushed her right back to where she had started from. >> i imagine for her it was very frustrating and heartbreaking to have 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 meant 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 laurence 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. >> hey, listen, i can do the short one. i need it for my heart, it's kind of beating down here. >> so sorry. >> it's all right, it's not your fault. in fact, if i'd known this was all that was going to happen, i needn't have been nervous. long life to your grand highness. >> cheerio. >> better luck next time, only not with me, of course. >> 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. are you sure there's no effect when you drink it that way? >> 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 olivier is splintering marilyn's relationship with her friend and coproducer, milton green. >> he would get up every day, go to pinewood and be a producer, which meant calm everybody, make sure everybody shows up. it's a thankless job. >> milton found himself at times siding with olivier, or at least feeling sympathy for olivier. marilyn then started to think, well, he must be on olivier's side. >> by this point, marilyn was also having trouble sleeping. she took a lot of sleeping pills every night. >> when you're filming, you have

to be wide-eyed and look fresh. and if you haven't slept, you aren't going to. so everybody in hollywood takes pills. once she starts taking the pills, she can't stop. >> if even counting sheep can't help you to sleep, sominex brings 100% safe sleep. >> during the '50s and '60s, there's this ramping up of prescribing medication to deal with psychological problems. >> control yourself. >> women were definitely medicated in ways that men were not. >> if you're a woman, you know what it means to be needed. >> those women were tormented in a lot of ways, and they were not really able to show their whole authentic self, which created in them secrets. >> all the fun can go out of your life. >> so it's no surprise that people would become addicted. not a surprise. >> all of the stories about "the prince and the show girl" focus on marilyn's difficulties and

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