Throwback Thursday: Happy 90th Birthday, Marilyn!

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Who Was Norma Jean?

Sexual icon Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jean Baker) would have celebrated her ninetieth birthday yesterday if if she had not left this world back in 1962. She has formed an indelible brand of sexuality of the world's women and we still want to know everything about her even though we can never have all of the answers about what made this tragic beauty tick.

I have previously shared Karina Longworth's excellent podcast with you in the past. It's called "You Must Remember This," and Longworth's excellent, well-researched telling of Monroe's life story is above. You really should give it a listen if you want to enrich your knowledge of Monroe's life and times. It is a few years old and just really seems to give a clear sense of the fear and loneliness that plagued Monroe through her too-short life.

"You Must Remember This" is currently in the middle of an excellent series on the impact of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings attempts in the 1950s to uproot Communism in Hollywood, which led the eventual creation of the Hollywood Blacklist of accused Communists who were shunned from motion picture industry over their perceived political beliefs. The current episode covers the shared history of director/Monroe's former lover Elia Kazan, Monroe's former husband Arther Miller and their mutual admiration/love/lust for Monroe in that time of turmoil.

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Monroe lived a complicated life and these two podcasts give great info that will make you feel like you understand this legend bit more.

The image of Monroe above and more like it as well as videos can be found over at Mr. Skin.