Modern day celebrities interpret excerpts from memoirs written by people who knew Marilyn Monroe as well as her recently discovered personal journals and letters.

Of all the stars in Hollywood's history, no one had a more potent mix of glamor and tragedy than Marilyn Monroe. Through performed readings of her personal papers, this film explores the life and personal thoughts of this seminal movie star and how she achieved her dream with determination and audacity. Furthermore, through additional readings and interviews of her colleagues and acquaintances, we also follow her emotional self-destruction under the sexist pressures of Hollywood until her premature death in 1962.—Kenneth Chisholm ([email protected])

A profile of Marilyn Monroe is presented over the course of her film career. This profile largely paints her as a victim, where disappointments in both her professional and personal lives affected the other, primarily the personal affecting the professional, and how the system failed her. While many of the transitions are filled in by interviews, both present day and archival material by historians and friends, the framework of the profile is celebrity actors making first person readings of published materials or interview transcripts about her by friends and historians, but primarily female actors of recently discovered written materials by Marilyn herself, and thus they channeling her spirit.—Huggo