April and Dom discuss the launchpad for Marilyn Monroe's career with famed Marilyn Monroe expert Gary Vitacco-Robles, author of Icon: The Life, Times, and Films of Marilyn Monroe and Carsum Pacifico: Marilyn Monroe's Brentwood Hacienda. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a time capsule for an era when Fox was transitioning away from star Bettie Grable and toward Marilyn Monroe, but also pushed the boundaries of many aspects of film that would leave to the eventual end of the Hayes Production Code in 1967.

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