Made-for-TV biopic casting an unusual slant on the life & career of Hollywood goddess Marilyn Monroe. The film uses dream-like sequences to portray Marilyn as she was before she changed her name & became a star, with Ashley Judd in the Norma Jean Baker role, & Mira Sorvino as Marilyn. In these sequences, the two characters appear together, & Norma Jean taunts Marilyn for not living up to her earlier aspirations. The film also chronicles the star's troubled childhood & adolescence, her films, her addiction problems, her famous marriages to playwright Arthur Miller (David Dukes) & baseball star Joe Di Maggio (Peter Dobson), & her rumoured affair with US President John F Kennedy (Steven Culp).