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Welcome to the Our Marilyn Monroe blog! Here you will find posts debunking the rumours surrounding Marilyn’s life, career and relationships as well as opinion posts and more!
Marilyn & Her Husbands – Fact VS Fiction
by Our Marilyn Monroe | January 28, 2023 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, News, Norma Jeane, Relationships | 2 Comments
Marilyn & Her Sexuality
by Our Marilyn Monroe | January 19, 2023 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane, Relationships | 1 Comment
Jasmine Chiswell – Clout Chaser? Or Just Naive?
by Our Marilyn Monroe | January 18, 2023 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, News | 0 Comments
Marilyn, Ella & Mocambo
by Our Marilyn Monroe | January 16, 2023 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe | 0 Comments
The truth behind Marilyn Monroe, Ella Fitzgerald and Mocambo.
Marilyn Monroe & The Casting Couch
by Our Marilyn Monroe | January 12, 2023 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane, Relationships | 3 Comments
Why We Love Marilyn Monroe
by Our Marilyn Monroe | January 11, 2023 | Marilyn Monroe | 2 Comments
Marilyn Monroe and RFK – The Affair That Never Happened… Or Did It?
by Our Marilyn Monroe | November 7, 2022 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, News, Relationships | 0 Comments
Useful Marilyn Monroe Sources
by Our Marilyn Monroe | October 31, 2022 | Marilyn Monroe, News, Other | 0 Comments
Marilyn Monroe and JFK – The Affair That Never Happened… Or Did It?
by Our Marilyn Monroe | October 24, 2022 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, News, Relationships | 3 Comments
60 Years Gone: The Distorted Legacy of Marilyn Monroe
by Our Marilyn Monroe | October 17, 2022 | Marilyn Monroe, News, Norma Jeane | 9 Comments

Marilyn On The Couch
Mar 2, 2022 | Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane, Other | 0 Comments
Below is a guest post by David Chirko, a psychologically oriented researcher and author who contacted Our Marilyn Monroe to discuss Marilyn’s mental health through a clinical lens. These are references held from researchers and are not necessarily the...

Marilyn Monroe Quotes… That She Never Said
Feb 13, 2022 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe | 0 Comments
Influential quotes are strewn all across the internet. Many are completely anonymous, some are linked to authors, celebrities, historians and scholars. Some are completely made up with a famous person's name attached to them. And Marilyn Monroe is no exception. ...

Eat, Pray…Marilyn!
Jan 26, 2022 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane | 1 Comment
Written by Allison Relyea (Perfectly Marilyn Monroe) Featured image of Marilyn in 1946, not on her wedding day. Recently, a viral video went around on TikTok accusing Marilyn fans of being insensitive when visiting her at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial...

Reframed Marilyn Monroe Part III and IV Review and Fact Check
Jan 25, 2022 | Fact or Fiction, Reviews | 2 Comments
Please read my review on parts I and II here. PART III The documentary reconvenes by welcoming "the New Marilyn Monroe" and her venture with Marilyn Monroe Productions, a topic I feel is regularly missed within many documentaries about Marilyn's life. And it was an...

Reframed Marilyn Monroe Part I and II Review and Fact Check
Jan 19, 2022 | Fact or Fiction, Reviews | 0 Comments
There is no such thing as a documentary that is completely faultless, especially when it comes to stars like Marilyn Monroe. Constantly there are conspiracies thrown in with fantastic tales to increase the drama of her life. And yet, Marilyn’s true story is...

Being a Biographer – Michelle Morgan
Jan 6, 2022 | Marilyn Monroe, News, Other | 0 Comments
Michelle Morgan is a well-established author, novelist, biographer, researcher and friend. I have been talking to Michelle since I emailed her in 2012 fan-girling over her biography Marilyn Monroe: Private and Undisclosed. We began chatting on Facebook and the rest is...

Marilyn Monroe, JFK and the Gold Rolex
Jan 5, 2022 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, Relationships | 0 Comments
Over the years certain stories come back around, despite being proven as incorrect. The story of Marilyn, JFK and a gold Rolex is absolutely no exception. I hadn't heard the story for a long time, because (for me anyway) the matter was well and truly put to bed. But...

Some Like It Hot – in an old-fashioned way!
Dec 6, 2021 | News | 0 Comments
By Benjamin Meissner Thank you, Laura, for reaching out and for giving me the chance to write about our favourite topic and how we can honour Marilyn by sharing the love with others who may have a similar story. I first noticed Marilyn without knowing who she was. I...

Part IV: “I could never talk about her. Never”
Nov 25, 2021 | Marilyn Monroe, News, Relationships | 1 Comment
“I could never talk about her. Never” Joe to Robert Stein in 1968 Written by Silver Technicolor Marilyn’s last day alive has many versions and impossibilities, which you can read more about here. What Joe was doing on August 4th 1962 is surprisingly fairly documented....

Marilyn Monroe: The Icon, The Legend… The Mother
Nov 20, 2021 | Fact or Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, News | 0 Comments
Written by Allison Relyea (Perfectly Marilyn Monroe) Labels – people loving putting labels on each other… Marilyn Monroe said those very words to reporter W.J. Weatherby in 1961. And by that time, she had several trademarks of her own: icon, movie star, sex symbol,...