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Until she died, Monroe wasn't just a "candle in the wind" — an abused, confused girl from an orphanage with a mother in a madhouse. She was also an ambitious actress, who knew how to craft a persona and play power games. Leaming fully describes her tragic fate, rising from sexual party favour for showbiz men to the movie superstar who pushes them around, until she crashes, a victim of self-loathing and drug addiction.
She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the letters written by Greenson to Anna Freud. Her last overdose may have happened just because on an August Saturday night her shrink went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.
Icons rarely speak, and never write. Written at the height of her fame but not published until more than a decade after her death, this autobiography poignantly recounts her childhood as an unwanted orphan, her early adolescence, her rise in the film industry from bit player to celebrity, and her marriage to Joe DiMaggio. In this intimate account of a very public life, Marilyn reveals herself as a gifted, vulnerable, sensible writer.
In vivid scenes, she tells of her first non-consensual sexual experience, her repeated romantic failures, and her prescient vision of herself as "the kind of girl they found dead in the hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand". Guess who Blonde is? She has no name in this compelling plus-page novel based on Monroe's life.
Only great writers have the talent to let us imagine we understand Marilyn's enigma. Murder, plot, suicide, hallucination, reality? Maybe all of these at once: great novelists being those that leave you with more questions than answers. Using more than interviews and some 35, pages of previously sealed files, including Monroe's diaries, letters, and other personal and revealing documents, this is certainly the best and most accurate biography of Marilyn.
Spoto reveals new details of every aspect of her life, and her mysterious death. Shona books 53 friends. Adel 2 books 0 friends. Nitya 54 books 5 friends. Post a comment ».
Mar 09, PM. Jun 05, PM. Jun 08, AM. Just curious, what was wrong with 'Goddess' and 'Blonde'? Jun 08, PM.
There both full of guys claiming to have had sex with Marilyn when there is little to no proof but the authors stuck it in there anyway. A whole bunch of tabloid trash. Also It has been proven that some of the interviews in both books are fabricated and 'enhanced' for shock value. Thank you, Erin! I will stay cleay of those then. Jun 09, AM. No problem! It is a chunkster but definitely the best.
Jul 05, PM. The Biography of Marilyn Monroe". A different story by Nancy Maniscalco Miracle. Nov 09, AM. Thanks for this list! I just recently became interested in Marilyn and wanted to find a good biography on her to read to learn more about her. I dreaded having to find a factual biography out of the dozens I'm sure have been written about her.
I'm sure that's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Thanks for cutting down all that work. Add a reference: Book Author. Search for a book to add a reference. We take abuse seriously in our discussion boards. Only flag comments that clearly need our attention.
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