Marilyn Monroe: Why?
- Episode aired Aug 10, 1962
- 27m
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Joe DiMaggio
- Self
- (archive footage)
John Harlan
- Self
- (voice)
Arthur Miller
- Self
- (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
- Self
- (archive footage)
Edward R. Murrow
- Self
- (voice)
Jerry Giesler
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
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- GoofsThe episode states Monroe was illegitimate and that her mother Gladys Baker gave her the name "Baker". Both are incorrect. Baker left her husband in February 1925 yet was still married to him when she gave birth, hence, the law assumes that Martin Mortensen was Monroe's father; he is named the father on her birth certificate. Biographers believe that Charles Stanley Gifford, a salesman for Consolidated Films, where Baker worked as a film cutter, was Monroe's biological father. Mortensen divorced Baker in 1928 when "their child" was 26 months old.
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- Runtime27 minutes
- Color
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