The effect is just another cloud of sorrow trailing in the wake of Marilyn’s complicated and troubled time on Earth. There are no definitively solved mysteries here. The results are often a little more prurient than they need to be, and the film’s revelations aren’t so much world-rocking as very, very sad. Those taped interviews, never available to the public, have been dramatized and shaped into the documentary The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, directed by Emma Cooper and featuring Summers as a guide. As the case was being reopened, a British newspaper suggested that Irish-born journalist Anthony Summers might want to launch his own investigation, which resulted in 650 tape-recorded interviews and eventually led to a 1985 book, Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe, which presented new and credible evidence about the events surrounding Marilyn’s death. Netflix does not earn a commission if you choose to purchase through these links.In 1982, Los Angeles District Attorney John Van de Kamp reopened the case of Marilyn Monroe’s death, which had long been considered a “probable suicide”-only to close it a few months later, reaffirming the coroner’s original 1962 assessment after the actress’s body was found in her Brentwood home. Products and links featured in this article are selected by our writers and editors.
which is that he got a call from Marilyn Monroe at about 9:30 on the night that she would later be found dead.”
And it contains a crucial piece of information. And finally, he found a way to let me know that he was writing his autobiography. I’d be in touch with him over the years after my book came out in the ’80s. and I got a lot of information about Marilyn’s character from him, but it was obvious to me that he was holding something back about her death. I spent months with him when I was writing my book. And his lips were sealed when they used him as a confidant.
and Ava Gardner had both gone on record as saying that they would, under stress, tell Guilaroff all sorts of things that they didn’t want to creep into print.
“And he was known in Hollywood as a confidant, a real confidant. “When I was working on the book, I went to a man called Sydney Guilaroff, who had been a legendary Hollywood hairdresser, and he’d been hairdresser to Marilyn Monroe, I think, on eight of her movies,” Summers says. This autobiography by MGM’s head hairdresser during Hollywood’s golden age gives readers an inside look at what it was like to be a trusted ear for such stars as Greta Garbo - and Marilyn Monroe, of course. Crowning Glory: Reflections of Hollywood’s Favorite Confidant, by Sydney Guilaroff (1996)
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