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The Life and Times of Marilyn Monroe

I was very struck by the archive material they've got here. There is a real charge, isn't there, in seeing her as somebody who's only famous to her next door neighbour? You know, just a young woman. She doesn't actually name people because at that point, I'm not sure she could, but she takes it on. So, just start, because I do think that's completely forgotten now. Well, we're sort of to generations who won't know her through acting at all. We'll only know her through that sort of caricature. It's a bit like Elvis. They just knew he had a leather jacket and a quiff. And that's what people

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