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This extraordinarily thoughtful book by Barbara Leaming, a literary star among film-star biographers, offers the last thing you'd expect in a book on Marilyn Monroe: new information from verifiable sources. Certainly, much of the tragedy is familiar: an abused, confused girl from an orphanage with a mother in a madhouse rises from sexual party favour for homely showbiz men to the movie superstar who pushes them around, until she crashes, a victim of self-loathing and drug addiction.
The thing about a tragedy is that its heroine isn't a victim--she's responsible for her fate. Leaming does scholarly spadework, digging up hard facts from sources like UCLA's 20th Century Fox collection and the diary-like first drafts of Arthur Miller's semi- autobiographical work, and she makes sense of Monroe's motives. She even apparently solves Monroe's suicide with clues from the star's psychiatrist's letters in the Anna Freud collection. Her last overdose may have happened just because her psychiatrist went to dinner with his wife and she felt abandoned.
But until pills killed her, Monroe wasn't a candle in the wind. She burned with ambition and knew how to craft a persona and play power games--with moguls and with the McCarthyites hounding her husband Miller. Leaming plausibly analyses the Miller- Monroe-Elia Kazan love/hate triangle, sizes up the Kennedy connection, condemns her acting coach Lee Strasberg as "chillingly mercenary," and deftly shows just how her life entangled her art, film by film. This book is a work of sharp intellect and emotional insight unclouded by lust or star worship. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This biography includes primary material which makes sense of the Kennedy saga as an integral part of Marilyn's life. Previous biographies have relied on secondary sources and gossip. Leaming, by contrast, is writing a serious biography revealing the gripping story that is the make up of Monroe.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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