More than 200 Marilyn Monroe books have been written by various authors, but only a handful have managed to show the fragility and humanity alongside the glamour and mystery of the true Marilyn Monroe.
Combing through hundreds of press clippings, the Marilyn Monroe autobiography and biographies, her film archives, and hundreds of Marilyn Monroe quotes and one-liners, author Lisa Daily pulls together a captivating picture of the magnetic star — Marilyn tells us in her own words about the dramatic details and the lifelong effects of her childhood trauma, her single-minded pursuit of Hollywood stardom, the men she fell in and out of love with, what it felt like to be the most desired sex symbol in the world, the Hollywood moguls who used her, the scandals and Hollywood feuds that plagued her, her eerie premonitions, and her ache to be taken seriously as an artist.
Marilyn Monroe shares her thoughts on first meeting Joe DiMaggio, how she felt about Arthur Miller after he wrote The Misfits, what she really thought about Jane Russell, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Clark Gable, and why she was afraid that fellow actor and John F. Kennedy brother-in-law Peter Lawford might be trying to kill her.
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I have been reading about marilyn monroe quotes and books. I am a fan of her films and her style. She is a symbol of legend to me. It is real sorrow that she died only 36.