Speaker

Mary Corbett

Mary Corbett is a documentary maker and writer. She had her start in nature documentaries, through which she took a great interest in communication skills of the animals she spent considerable time with in the wild, and which led to a series on interspecies communications and animal-assisted therapy.

She is currently working on a book and documentary on Marilyn Monroe's transformational visit to Japan with Joe DiMaggio in 1954, which left behind a string of Marilyn legends in each town they visited across the archipelago, along with a treasure trove of hilarious lost-in-translations still entertaining us today.