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The Dead Name That Made Marilyn Monroe Haunted Broadway's Streets

The Dead Name That Made Marilyn Monroe Haunted Broadway's Streets

Grief gathered in the streets-5,000 outside Saint Bartholomew’s-over a thirty-seven-year-old woman who died after a nose operation, yet her name would outlive her and reshape American celebrity. How did a stitched-together stage name travel twenty years beyond her death and become one of the most recognized identities in U.S. culture?

In this episode, we tell the life story of the woman who built a marquee name from borrowed pieces, tracing her childhood on the road, her rise to Broadway stardom, and the strange afterlife of…

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