Marilyn Monroe: The Biography - Hardcover

Spoto, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701140259 ISBN 13: 9780701140250

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1993

Synopsis

This biography of Marilyn Monroe based on her personal archive of over 35,000 documents - including letters, diaries, billets doux and suicide notes - aims to reveal the truth about Monroe's death and names the names. It overturns many myths about Marilyn and contains several revelations about Marilyn's life. The author interviewed over 150 friends and colleagues.

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Review:

This is a book that wound up teaching me a great deal about Hollywood, the social history of California, the movie business, the trials of female actors in American show business and the life of a woman who has been so mythologized that often the real woman is obscured from actual view.--Erica Jong "The Instrumentalist "

About the Author:

Donald Spoto is the author of Blue Angel: The Life of Marlene Dietrich, Rebel: The Life and Legend of James Dean, The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, Diana: The Last Year, The Hidden Jesus: A New Life, and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: A Life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0701140259
• ISBN 13: 9780701140250
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 768