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Radio 4,3 mins

‘Marilyn’s tragedy was to be treated like Jessica Rabbit’

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Marilyn Monroe struggled to reconcile her sex symbol status and her desire to learn, read and be considered for more than sheer beauty. The Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Maureen Dowd delves behind the dumb blonde image of Marilyn Monroe projected to the world to find a more complex person.

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