Great Balls of Fire Lied to You: The Real Story of Myra They Never Told You

Great Balls of Fire turned Myra Gale Brown's real marriage into a rock and roll fairy tale. Here's the story the 1989 film left out. When Hollywood adapted the life of Jerry Lee Lewis, it built the whole film around making you forget one fact: his bride was a child. This investigation traces what actually happened to Myra Gale Brown, from the 1957 elopement to the divorce filing that finally named the marriage for what it was. Myra co-wrote the book the film was based on. She set out to tell a survivor's story. A publisher and then a studio took it from her and turned it into a tribute to the man at the center of it. This episode follows how her words were rewritten, what the movie hid about the family, the bigamy, and the years after the credits, and how she finally reclaimed her story in her own memoir decades later. #GreatBallsOfFire #JerryLeeLewis #MyraGaleBrown #TrueStory #Hollywood