Marilyn, My Marilyn

It's the summer of '62, and twenty-five-year-old journalist Rory Long receives a phone call at quitting time: it's Marilyn Monroe. She wants to personally compliment him on a review he wrote of the new collected works of poet Carl Sandburg. She then enlists the cub reporter to tell her story; she doesn't want to be remembered as a joke. When they meet, Rory is captivated by her knowledge of classical music, art and literature. As their relationship intensifies, Rory experiences a coming-of-...