Goddess

Goddess

Author: Anthony Summers

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2012-11-06

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1453265856

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The updated bestselling biography—based on over six hundred interviews—and the inspiration for the Netflix documentary, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe, born in obscurity and deprivation, became an actress and legend of the twentieth century, romantically linked to famous men from Joe DiMaggio to Arthur Miller to John F. Kennedy. But her tragic death at a young age, under suspicious circumstances, left behind a mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Anthony Summers interviewed more than six hundred people, laying bare the truths—sometimes funny, often sad—about this brilliant, troubled woman. The first to gain access to the files of Monroe’s last psychiatrist, Summers uses the documents to explain her tangled psyche and her dangerous addiction to medications. He establishes, after years of mere rumor, that President Kennedy and his brother Robert were both intimately involved with Monroe in life—and in covering up the circumstances of her death. Written and updated by a Pulitzer Prize nominee who has authored works on JFK, J. Edgar Hoover, and the 9/11 attacks, this investigation of an iconic star’s brief life and early death is “remarkable. . . . The ghost of Marilyn Monroe cries out in these pages” (The New York Times). Netflix’s The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe will cement this work as the definitive biography of the unforgettable woman.


Goddess

Goddess

Author: Anthony Summers

Publisher: Phoenix

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 621

ISBN-13: 9780575600089

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She was born Norma Jeane but the world knew and loved her as Marilyn. Her life was one of unprecedented fame and private misery, her death a tragedy surrounded by mysteries. Drawing on first-hand interviews Anthony Summers offers both a classic biography and a shockingly revealing account of the screen goddess's relations with John and Robert Kennedy. 'The definitive story of the legend ... more convincing at every page - told with all the coldness of truth and the authority of the historian, but at the end of it we still love Marilyn' Maeve Binchy, Irish Times


Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Author: Tony Jerris

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781475101409

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Details the friendship and relationship between Jane Lawrence and Marilyn Monroe from the time Ms. Lawrence began running the official M. Monroe fan club until Ms. Monroe's untimely death.


The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

Author: J. Randy Taraborrelli

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2009-08-25

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 0446550957

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From New York Times bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli comes the definitive biography of the most enduring icon in popular American culture. When Marilyn Monroe became famous in the 1950s, the world was told that her mother was either dead or simply not a part of her life. However, that was not true. In fact, her mentally ill mother was very much present in Marilyn's world and the complex family dynamic that unfolded behind the scenes is a story that has never before been told...until now. In this groundbreaking book, Taraborrelli draws complex and sympathetic portraits of the women so influential in the actress' life, including her mother, her foster mother, and her legal guardian. He also reveals, for the first time, the shocking scope of Marilyn's own mental illness, the identity of Marilyn's father and the half-brother she never knew, and new information about her relationship with the Kennedy's-Bobby, Jack, and Pat Kennedy Lawford. Explosive, revelatory, and surprisingly moving, this is the final word on the life of one of the most fascinating and elusive icons of the 20th Century.


Secrets of Marilyn Monroe

Secrets of Marilyn Monroe

Author: Kris Janis

Publisher: Kris Janis

Published: 2023-12-30

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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A must-read, riveting biography like no other of the Hollywood icon. Find about her secret romances (did she date Elvis?), shocking experiences in Hollywood, and other intriguing details about the blonde bombshell from those who knew her best, including her sister, closest friends, and husbands. Read candid and sometimes humorous anecdotes about Marilyn from other famous people who knew the celebrated actress or crossed paths with her: Judy Garland, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Joan Rivers, Shelley Winters, Shirley MacLaine, Renée Taylor, Truman Capote, Joan Collins, Kim Novak, Mamie Van Doren, Anne Bancroft... and many more... Secrets of Marilyn Monroe also dispels some common myths about the movie star and her mysterious death. After reading this book, you'll have a much better understanding of who Marilyn Monroe was.


The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe

The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe

Author: Sarah Churchwell

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2005-12-27

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 1466825944

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A brilliant investigation into the debates surrounding Marilyn Monroe's life and the cultural attitudes that her legend reveals There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman and tragic loner. Indeed, the writing and rewriting of this endlessly intriguing icon's life has produced more than six hundred books, from the long procession of "authoritative" biographies to the memoirs and plays by ex-husband Arthur Miller and the works by Norman Mailer and Joyce Carol Oates. But even as the books have multiplied, myth, reality, fact, fiction, and gossip have become only more intertwined; there is still no agreement about such fundamental questions as Marilyn's given name, the identity of her father, whether she was molested as a child, and how and why she died. The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe reviews the unreliable and unverifiable-but highly significant-stories that have framed the greatest Hollywood legend. All the while, cultural critic Sarah Churchwell reveals us to ourselves: our conflicted views on women, our tormented sexual attitudes, our ambivalence about success, our fascination with self-destruction. In incisive and passionate prose, Churchwell uncovers the shame, belittlement, and anxiety that we bring to the story of a woman we supposedly adore. In the process, she rescues a Marilyn Monroe who is far more complicated and credible than the one we think we know.


Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Author: Donald Spoto

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 0815411839

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Relying on over 150 interviews as well as Marilyn's letters and diaries, this work by best-selling biographer Spoto casts new light on every aspect of the actress's tempestuous life.


Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe

Author: Barbara Leaming

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2010-02-10

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 0307557774

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Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will totally change the way we view the most enduring icon of American sexuality. To those who think they have heard all there is to hear about Marilyn Monroe, think again. Leaming's book tells a brand-new tale of sexual, psychological, and political intrigue of the highest order. Told for the first time in all its complexity, this is a compelling portrait of a woman at the center of a drama with immensely high stakes, a drama in which the other players are some of the most fascinating characters from the world's of movies, theater, and politics. It is a book that shines a bright light on one of the most tumultuous, frightening, and exciting periods in American culture. Basing her research on new interviews and on thousands of primary documents, including revealing letters by Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, John Huston, Laurence Olivier, Tennessee Williams, Darryl Zanuck, Marilyn's psychiatrist Dr. Ralph Greenson, and many others, Leaming has reconstructed the tangles of betrayal in Marilyn's life. For the first time, a master storyteller has put together all of the pieces and told Marilyn's story with the intensity and drama it so richly deserves. At the heart of this book is a sexual triangle and a riveting story of betrayal that has never been told before. You will come away filled with new respect for Marilyn's incredible courage, dignity, and loyalty, and an overwhelming sense of tragedy after witnessing Marilyn, powerless to overcome her demons, move inexorably to her own final, terrible betrayal of herself. Marilyn Monroe is a book that will make you think--and will break your heart.