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1) My story
Author
Publisher
Stein and Day
Pub. Date
[1974]
Description
Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autobiography of actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) 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, she tells of her first (non-consensual) sexual experience, her romance...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Description
This work is a collection of Marilyn Monroe's written artifacts, notes to herself, letters, even poems, in her own handwriting, never before published, along with rarely seen intimate photos. These bits of text, jotted in notebooks, typed on paper, or written on hotel letterhead, reveal a woman who loved deeply and strove to perfect her craft.
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
An analysis of Marilyn Monroe's career with Twentieth Century Fox, chronicling her rise to star status and highlighting the twenty-one movies she made with the studio; includes movie stills and promotional pictures, plot descriptions, quotations, trivia, and character profiles.
Author
Publisher
Ecco an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"... Joyce Carol Oates reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jean Baker - the child, the woman, the fated celebrity - in Norma Jeane's own voice. This most intimate portrait reveals a fragile, indiosyncratically gifted young woman who makes and remakes her identity, ever managing to survive against crushing odds to become the definition of stardom."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Description
"Last year J. Randy Taraborrelli wrote a bestselling book entitled The Secret Life of Marilyn. His is the most recent of dozens written since Marilyn's death in August of 1962 and yet the appetite for information about Marilyn is insatiable. No matter whether sensational or flawed, as most of these biographies have been, the fans always come out, in best-selling numbers. This time, with Lois Banner's An Uncommon Woman, Marilyn's fans won't be disappointed....
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
©2014
Description
Marilyn Monroe died under suspicious circumstances on the night of August 4, 1962. In The Murder of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed, renowned MM expert Jay Margolis and New York Times bestselling author Richard Buskin finally lay to rest more than fifty years of wild speculation and misguided assertions by actually naming the screen goddess's killer. At the same time, they use the testimony of eyewitnesses to describe exactly what took place inside her...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When Kate Morgan's grandfather pleads crypitcally that she "find the beautiful stranger, " Kate jumps at the chance to get away from the family's failing business. Her search leads her to the Hotel del Coronado, where filming is underway for the movie Some Like It Hot. But even though Kate is sure the Coronado is her future, she discovers that it's also where the ghosts of the past have come to stay. As Kate's life intertwines with the of the guest...
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Description
Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty still captivates. Her love life still fascinates. Her story still dominates popular culture. Now, drawing on years of research and dozens of new interviews, this biography cuts through decades of lies and secrets and introduces you to the Marilyn Monroe you always wanted to know: a living, breathing, complex woman, bewitching and maddening, brilliant yet flawed. Charles Casillo studies Monroe's life through the context of...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Marilyn Monroe's final project, "Something's got to give, " has become one of the most talked about unfinished films in history. the story of the film and Marilyn's last days were seemingly lost ... until now. Through interviews, never-before-seen footage and an edited reconstruction of "Something's got to give" this presentation provides a look at the last act in the life of the world's most famous and tragic superstar.
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