Small-Screen Marilyn

This section is comprised of segments of television shows that are related to Marilyn Monroe.


A Current Affair
Date Aired: August 3, 1992
Host:
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Marilyn Segment: Marilyn: 30 Years Later

Details:
This two-part segment on Marilyn was a general review of her life and career, and includes some dramatizations.

Interviews:
James Bacon: Jeanne Carmen: Jack Clemmons: James Hall: John Miner: Terry Moore: Fred Otash: Debbie Reynolds: Robert Slatzer: Anthony Summers: Dr. Sidney Weinberg: Shelley Winters

Footage:
The Cal-Neva Lodge

Entertainment Tonight
Date Aired: ?
Host:
Mary Hart
Marilyn Segment: Inside the Pages

Details:
This segment was essentially a promo for the book Double Cross. Sam Giancanna Jr. In it, Giancanna claims that Marilyn was killed by a lethal suppository.

Interviews:
Sam Giancanna Jr.: James Spada: Bill Roehmer.

Inside Edition
Date Aired: ?
Host:

Marilyn Segment:

Details:
This segment was a general "remembering Marilyn" segment.

Interviews:
Bebe Goddard: Jim Dougherty: Jane Russell

Missing
Date Aired: ?
Host: Stacy Keach
Marilyn Segment: Missing: Marilyn Monroe's Diary

Details:
This segment offered a $50,000 reward to anyone who could locate Marilyn Monroe's purported diary (the red book that Ted Jordan claimed he had but never produced).

Interviews:
James Bacon: Jeanne Carmen: Lionel Grandison: Robert Slatzer

Footage:
as Grand Marshall in parade: announcing divorce from Joe DiMaggio: at Idlewild Airport: announcing Prince and the Showgirl and marriage to Arthur Miller: leaving apartment in New York City: Singing Happy Birthday to JFK

The Reporters
Date Aired: Sometime in 1988?
Hosts: Rafael Abramovitch, Krista Bradford, Steve Dunleavy
Marilyn Segment: Marilyn Monroe: A Case for Murder?

Details:
This segment was intended as a sort of unofficial inquiry into the death of Marilyn Monroe. It features a mock-up grand jury, to whom evidence is presented - mainly in the form of interviews with people connected to the case - supplemented with footage, photos, and informational narrative.

Interviews:
Jeanne Carmen: Mike Carroll: Jack Clemmons: John Danoff: James Hall: Natalie Jacobs: Abe Landau: Patricia Seaton Lawford: John Miner: Terry Moore: Fred Otash: Debbie Reynolds: Bill Roemer: Walt Schaeffer: Robert Slatzer: Milo Speriglio: Anthony Summers: Sidney Weinberg: Shelly Winters

Footage:
Twentieth Century-Fox lot: Marilyn as Grand Marshall of parade: after marriage to Joe DiMaggio: announcing divorce from Joe DiMaggio: Lighting firecracker at publicity event: giving interview after word of marriage to Arthur Miller got out: Announcing Prince and the Showgirl to the press: boarding train with Arthur Miller: avoiding the press (hiding head in fur coat): Singing Happy Birthday to JFK: Cal-Neva Lodge: Brentwood home and body being removed by ambulance: funeral procession

Movie Footage:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Seven Year Itch: There's No Business Like Show Business: Let's Make Love


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