some wonder about at assassination of president kennedy and the death of marilyn monroe.iracy theories linked to the biggest uninvolved mysteries. >> even when there are plausible explanations. >> like the bobby kennedy case, like amelia earhart. >> reporter: the answers don't always satisfy. >> i think mysteries mean questions. the strait of gibb brawl tar, 100 years ago, what happened to the crew, pirates, perhaps a sea monster. all popular theories debunked in this 2007 documentary, which tells us what didn't happen but doesn't tell us what did. 77 years after amelia earhart disappeared during her trip around the world, the search continues. wreckage has never been found. and los angeles county where new questions have come to light about the long-debated death of actress, natalie wood. in 1981, it was ruled an accidental drowning. in 2012, a coroner changes the death scertificate, drowning an other undetermined factors. ♪ >> marilyn monroe. in 1962, her death was called a probable suicide. an overdose of bar bit tu ats. how did her internal organs disappear at the mor

and -- ♪ but diamonds are a girl's best friend ♪ >> reporter: -- marilyn monroe.was called a probable suicide. an overdose of barbiturates. but how did her internal organs disappear at the morgue? for skeptics more questions lingered. what about her links to john f. kennedy, robert kennedy, the various crime bosses? >> i have talked to at least 40 people who said -- you know, talked to her before she died who said how happy she was, how excited and how she made plans for the next day and then all of the sudden, she is dead. >> reporter: a year later president kennedy shot in dallas. his death shocking the nation and still causing confusion. that perennial question, could there be a second shooter? >> the church committee concluded unanimously that there was at least, you know, two different gunmen but yet that's been denied by others. >> reporter: it may be the greatest mystery in american histo history. lee harvey oswald was ruled the only assassin. but 60 years later a lgallup pol shows 60% of americans don't believe it. those are just a few of the stories that

i did marilyn monroe's test. i was the test boy. just wanted to get in front of the camera and figure out how it works. so, i started their. -- there. they had a tremendous fan magazine department. i did a film called "a song in my heart." it was with susan hayward. the people, when they walked out of the theater, said who was that guy? that is what happened. that will happen. they will wonder who he was. that will start you. he did meet him g.m.. mgm. he said, i will check it out. it didn't work. i went there and met the coaches. they had other people in mind. studioou were a contract, would they give you acting lessons? >> you could do anything. they had coaches. they had been saying. sensinfencing. they could teach you anything you wanted. >> hollywood was a small town. >> it was. >> you would go to the grocery store yourself. you have to be worried about paparazzi. >> it was protected. you could go shopping. do anything you wanted. people were kind. they like to see you. orwas a thrill to see an act who was in a movie. it wasn't

i did two tests with marilyn monroe. >> charlie: really. i was the test boy. all i wanted to do is get in front of the camera, figure out how it works and get used to it. so i started there, and they had a tremendous fan magazine department as they did in every studio, and i did a film called "a song in my heart," which i was on the screen only a few minutes, with susan hayward and she played jane froman. and people walked out of the studio and said, who's that guy? that's what happens. the picture hits and they'll wonder who he was and that will start you. >> charlie: didn't you used to caddy for some of these guys? >> i caddied for clark gable. he took me to mgm. i told him i would like to be an actor. he said, let me -- i'll check it out. it didn't work, but i went there and met the coaches there. but they had other people in mind, and that was that. so i went on. >> charlie: now, if you had a studio contracts, would they give you a lot of acting lessons and that kind of thing? >> you could do anything. they had coaches there, they had dramatic coaches, the

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marilyn monroe right there. but how far is too far? with the late philip seymour hoffman set to star in two upcoming movies, they plan to keep him in his roles with the help of computers. >>> and later tonight here, who would forget this baby face? the dangerous delivery, the mother and baby gorilla saved in san diego. tonight, the mother and newborn are about to meet each other, and you will see it right here. [ male announcer ] this is kevin. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap. >>> we all know part of the magic of hollywood is its ability to keep the characters we love alive. but how far is too far in trying to keep the actors themselves alive? not long

james dean, clark gable, marilyn monroe all passed away before finishing a film project.their best with body doubles. but today they have a much better option. >> maybe it was you who inspired me to come back. >> reporter: coming back to the big screen. actor philip seymour hoffman will live on as his character in the next two installments in "the hunger games" after dying before filming was completed. >> what are you smiling about? >> reporter: and now we're learning so will paul walker in the "fast and furious 7" -- >> i'm not going anywhere. >> reporter: -- after it was originally believed the movie would have to be dropped after too many untaped scenes. instead "the hollywood reporter" is reporting they will use special effects, replacings the actor with a computer-generated image of him. >> what are you seeing here is the technology has advanced to the point they can do things, p is that wasn't possible before. >> reporter: cgi technology is used to put a new face on actors. it's how armie hammer played twins in "the social network." how natalie portman danced in "bl

glamour was different from, say, the nature of the glamour of a grace kelly or audrey hepburn or marilyn monroeglamour is something where the audience projects a meeting, something that they want, and elizabeth taylor some of represented being able to get away with anything, sort of being able to be beautiful, to have jewels, to have man. she could do all of those things that, say, somebody like grace kelly, who represented ladylike virtues would not have done it, so by the time she married john warner, she was older. she was no longer really a movie star. she occasionally appeared in something, but she was beginning the part of her career where she reinvented herself more as a civic figure, which later became her advocacy on behalf of aids causes, and that was a real turn from what had made her glamorous in the first place, but washington always likes a little hollywood glamour, and washington always likes a little politics and political glamour. >> how many years have you lived there? >> well, that is an interesting question. i have lived there most of my adult life. i moved there in 1986. fr

how about the statue of liberty, amelia earhart, marilyn monroe.ut officials say that changing the images on u.s. bills would become a political quagmire. >> in our country it's all about dead statesmen and old buildings. >> that is one thing that people do rely on when they look at you is that familiarity. so when you go overseas they may in the know what this image is but they know that they're going to look for it on the $100 note. >> you can bet your bottom dollar that our money will keep its iconic look. ♪ >> i have no idea where it would go when i started cutting up the first bill. >> mason: first cut up a dollar bill 15 years ago. >> sort of personal interest in economics. >> mason: he couldn't stop making things out of money. his collages are assembled from $1 bills. he calls this the money lisa. >> by doing what you do you show up sorts of parts of the dollar. >> that's the irony of the work. people are so familiar with the object they have it ip their hands and no one really is aware of what it look like. >> mason: his work asks us to rec

. >> marilyn monroe, map of the world. >> the germs, the germs, the germs in this place. is one man who can turn this clutter and claustrophobic area into a peaceful oasis of work bliss and that's my friend, scale extraordinaire and potter jonathan adler. >> thanks for helping us out again in here. >> i'm so happy to be here. >> we don't have a coat rack. they'll be thrilled with us. >> we block other stations. >> yeah. >> there's the custard walls that are not doing anybody's complexions any favors. i get the feeling it is chaotic here. >> it is. >> i think we need a little bit of calm to deal with the chaos. i think blue is a very calming color. and i think orange is an optimistic color so calm and optimistic is what "gma" is about. we're going to make this gorgeous, calm and functional for you guys. ♪ >> all right, jonathan adler is joining me as is denise and rob and simone, the people who it will affect most. jonathan, shall we. come on in and see the new "good morning america" office space. feast your eyes. >> this is amazing. >> what do you think? >> it looks so cl

she's sort of the marilyn monroe of the space age.e wakes up in garden grove california, early in the morning and sees these headlights hovering in her yard. is it a ufo? what is that? no they're reporters who have come to interview her about what it's going to be like to be one of the wives of these spacemen. i mean it's almost science fiction. reporters can't believe it. and reem, who wanted to be an actress in high school she opens the door, offers the reporters coffee. some of them have brought doughnuts, and they start taking pictures of her and her family as they're sort of crawling all over her and she's a real dish. jfk would later say he found her the most attractive of all of the astronaut wives. [laughter] because, of course, as they're going to learn they're going to quickly go through this cinderella-like transformation. now, out in ohio at wright patterson air force base betty grissom, gus grissom's wife just received a tone call the night before -- a phone call from her husband saying you might want to straighten up the

. >> but perhaps the album's greatest success was "candle in the wind," first a tribute to marilyn monroee best selling single of all time. >> sometimes a song just keeps having a life. there's a track which samples the song. i love that. for me, it's such a flattering thing for an artist to do to sample your music. >> and you can tell everybody. ♪ go ahead and tell everybody i'm the man i'm the man i'm the man ♪ >> i read an interview with you recently and you said you didn't think you're music was relevant anymore. it's a complete contradiction. there's a case in point that proves you're wrong. most of the ople you have playing with you on this re-release of this double album weren't even born when it came out. and yet they jumped at the chance to play the songs, which means it's relevant to them. >> i'm talking about things like "the diving board" and things like that. a song is always relevant if it's a good song. >> i'm going to share with you a recent "telegraph" description of you. described you as, quote, the virtuoso musician, comes across as one of the least tortured artists you